Example sentences of "[adv] been [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extra ten minutes had probably only been the time it had taken them to find him . |
| 2 | They think I 'm a dead duck but it 's not been a time you could write off . |
| 3 | Often , and particularly with those individuals who have spent long hours in heavy manual labour , there has perhaps not been the time or energy to develop such interests or hobbies . |
| 4 | As Henry watched her retreating buttocks , grinding out yet another dismissal , he tried to remember if there had ever been a time , years ago , when he had desired her . |
| 5 | If there had ever been a time when it had been a whim and not an obligation , that time was gone now ; the thing was there waiting for him , blocking his path , and there was no way round it to his manhood . |
| 6 | For Mr Pilkington , of Clevegate , Nunthorpe , Middlesbrough , is a crossword fanatic who has twice been The Times ' national champion . |
| 7 | The definition of a second has since officially been the time it takes a cesium atom to make 9,192,631,770 vibrations . |
| 8 | There has never been a time , it seems , when the world has been so dominated by the politics of nationalism . |
| 9 | There has never been a time more conscious of chronological age than our own . |
| 10 | As the protagonist in Kafka 's Conversation with a Suppliant confessed : ‘ There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive . ’ |
| 11 | Yet there has never been a time when the British people were more in need of a vigilant and free Press . |
| 12 | ‘ Our message is that there has never been a time like this to pick up a bargain , ’ a spokeswoman said . |
| 13 | There has never been a time when women were not interested in politics … |
| 14 | There 's never been a time when you 've nearly split up ? |
| 15 | There has never been a time in economic history when comparative advantage was less static . |
| 16 | There had never been a time when they had not wrangled , and yet after his fashion he was fond of her . |
| 17 | There has never been a time when our farmers have been more fearful of the future . |
| 18 | Because there 's never been a time before when all newspapers have gone up simultaneously . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's never been the time . ’ |