Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And more often than not , out of the sun would come the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts , long before our fighters had had sufficient time in which to gain their best operational height . |
| 2 | The gangs had clashed many times . |
| 3 | The past three months have proved difficult times for community mental health care policy . |
| 4 | British banks have had less time than their American counterparts to develop clear strategies towards property . |
| 5 | Mr Denham said he understood the pharmacy owners had wanted more time to prepare their case . |
| 6 | Reform , the young protesters stressed , was good but should be extended into the political sphere , as their predecessors had demanded many times before . |
| 7 | As the focus of the Bretton Woods institutions has moved across the Atlantic to central Europe deep-seated fears have arisen that time , resources and energy will be diverted from the economies of the southern hemisphere . |
| 8 | Since Cooke took charge the teams have played four times with the score standing at 2–2 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A study of 4300 shallow wells in Varmland , west central Sweden , revealed that the pH fell from an average of 6.7 in 1960 to just under 6.2 in 1985 , that is , the wells had become five times more acidic . |
| 11 | Now the speculators have hit hard times and are desperately trying to off-load the cars which have become millstones around their necks . |
| 12 | Few divers have spent more time under waters as diverse as the Pacific Ocean and the Red Sea . |
| 13 | Sociologists and political scientists have devoted much time to developing a variety of theories on the determination of public sector expenditure . |
| 14 | It is a tribute to the importance of her personality that her advisers have spent much time on her image . |
| 15 | In such circumstances the figures for those activities will rise as a result of the police having spent more time and money in dealing with them . |
| 16 | In fact , by the time they reach the age of 18 , most children have spent more time in front of the TV set than at school . |
| 17 | He added that the exports had ceased some time previously . |
| 18 | Every Rentokil person in Water and Ventilation , Tropical Plants and Medical Services has spent much time and energy developing SSG & FQS this year and now they will really shoot us way into the lead . |
| 19 | So far , filetab Support Services has tried four times to get injunctions against Ace Microsystems to prevent the company from selling Lex-11 . |
| 20 | All three ran back to the trough prepared to swim for it as the boys had done several times before . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Such has been the pace of South Africa 's re-entry into the world arena that Rhodes and his team mates have had little time to be overawed by the situation , which for a youngster from a small town in Natal is quite remarkable . |
| 23 | Health units have found that over the past two years nurses have taken more time off sick with qualified nurses taking an average of 14 days off each year . |
| 24 | He went on to allege that the Liberal Democrats had received 15 times as much in donations , but refrained from naming names . |
| 25 | Since 1964 the Furniture unions have tried three times to organise the workers of Spiralynx ; each time a small number of workers have joined a union , the management have found out and workers have been dissuaded from joining . |