Example sentences of "been [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daly stressed the narrowness of most reefs and showed , from examples where the rate of reef growth is known , that there had been ample time in the Post-glacial period for the growth of modern reefs . |
| 2 | But there had been strange times since then , and they 'd put Gentle in an apter mood for this study . |
| 3 | Be that as it may , though many exciting things have happened to physics in the interim , there has not been another time since 1925 when the foundations have been shaken , the paradigm shifted , our view of the world transformed . |
| 4 | But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed . |
| 5 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 6 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures , Rufus thought , and a couple of weeks later it was all over . |
| 7 | There have been many times in history when Christianity has faced extreme difficulty . |
| 8 | The government of the day would not be promoting the Bill , and it would not have been allocated time in its legislative programme , unless the government had considered the matter in considerable detail and decided more or less exactly upon the Bill it desired . |
| 9 | I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er |
| 10 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 11 | Bill had been enough times to a morgue . |
| 12 | In practice the question therefore resolves itself into : Has there been enough time for enough successive generations ? |