Example sentences of "have been [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 The investigation will explore : ways of asking about sensitive issues ; the prevalence of a number of forms of sexual abuse ( for example , incest , rape , involvement in pornography ) ; whether the abuse was reported to anyone ; what coping strategies were used at a time ; and what the impact has been over time .
2 This theme of joy won through suffering was especially powerful in the persecution faced by the early church , as it has been in times of persecution since .
3 She was only twenty when she was saddled with me , yet she never made me feel I was a drag , and heaven knows a kid sister must have been at times . ’
4 Yet blind instinct told her that Rohan was her man , and had been since time began .
5 The driver stopped to complain but was told it was his own fault — if he had been on time the ball would have missed .
6 He said : ‘ I thought I had been in time . ’
7 Exchange rate changes have been at times suggested as a justifiable response to productivity growth rate differentials .
8 Accordingly , I do not derive much assistance from the definitions of natural justice which have been from time to time used , but , whatever standard is adopted , one essential is that the person concerned should have a reasonable opportunity of presenting his case .
9 The shipwrights of Exeter , for example , bound themselves in 1766 not to work for masters who were seeking to employ them at " less wages than have been from time immemorially paid to journeymen shipwrights " , to " deprive " them of " several of their ancient rights and privileges " and to impose longer hours than had been " usual and customary " .
10 And how painful it 's been at times to love you .
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