Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] some time " in BNC.

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1 Ice expected to last some time , but look for a few skimmers and perch at Newport on pole and maggot .
2 It grieves me to say that the committee seemed to spend some time trying to denigrate the authority 's findings and to vindicate the tobacco industry .
3 Walter Last has spent some time developing a system for cutting the compound angles on the segments for his turning
4 Fortunately the rain had ceased some time during the night .
5 According to purchasing manager Roger DaForno , this excellent relationship has taken some time to build and there 's no doubt that both organizations ' commitment to a process of continuous improvement has helped immensely .
6 In the rest of the country we can not be sure of the date , although the evidence begins to suggest some time in the late Saxon period , the centuries before the Norman Conquest .
7 Nevertheless we accept that a new period in world communications did begin some time in the 1970S — involving technology , markets and policies .
8 Mark Warner Travel is currently running the spreadsheet and ledger systems in parallel , but Mr Nabakov expects Platinum to go live some time this month .
9 On the very day of the dinner Charlotte Poole was writing in her journal : ‘ We are shocked to hear that Mr. Thelwall has spent some time at Stowey this week with Mr. Coleridge , and consequently with Tom Poole .
10 Bradshaw and Millar found that about 85 per cent of all lone mothers had spent some time on income support since becoming a lone parent with 72 per cent still in receipt at the time of the interview .
11 Her feeling of insecurity had started some time before her father 's death with a suspicion , soon amounting to certainty , that something was going on behind her back .
12 He added that the exports had ceased some time previously .
13 The smart money had moved some time earlier , becoming cash or commodities , anything that could survive the flash-fire of a market crash .
14 She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge .
15 Though they will travel well prepared , the Lancashire club have no idea as to the strength of opposition they will meet , Harlequins having indicated some time ago that a number of their senior players may have other commitments during the Easter break .
16 This time last week it had been , last Saturday , when she and Miguel had spent some time together and she was as happy as she had ever been in her life — until that moment when she discovered just how much of a fool he had made of her …
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