Example sentences of "had been [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said the £15,000 available for grants had been over-subscribed four times . |
| 2 | Mr Fuller , who had been married three times , dealt in second-hand cars and dabbled in property and building . |
| 3 | In the 1970s the Labour government supported a private member 's Bill which took over an item which would have been included in its own programme if there had been sufficient parliamentary time . |
| 4 | Last year the London evening newspapers had been able several times to trot out their favourite banner headline . |
| 5 | To him , Zambia had been virgin six times over , and each deflowering had been more intense than the last . |
| 6 | It made a good reason for those excluded to dislike Miss Morgan , but it had been true any time these past two years . |
| 7 | His familiarity with his brother 's behaviour would be based on past form , something she had n't wanted to dwell on , for surely it had been different this time ? |