Example sentences of "[vb past] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formal nursing courses reflect these concerns , but there is at present no mechanism for updating the knowledge of those who qualified some time ago . |
| 2 | They met some time in ‘ thirty-eight , I gather . |
| 3 | I have a feeling that an international conference of television executives met some time later , hoping to improve on this . |
| 4 | Observations from the Earth of the east-west motion of small features in the Jovian clouds led some time ago to a sidereal rotation period for the equatorial region of 9h 50m 30.003s , and 9h 55m 40.632s for the rest of Jupiter . |
| 5 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |
| 6 | Pinnacle , based in Columbus , Ohio , had originally planned to use the Texas Instruments Inc 64-bit SuperSparc that Sun is using in its latest workstations , but realised some time ago that it was waiting at the back of a long line of manufacturers queuing for a trickle of SuperSparcs being thrown their way . |
| 7 | ‘ Where are we going ? ’ she asked some time later . |
| 8 | Maybe your financial position has changed recently and plans you made some time ago need reviewing . |
| 9 | Intel was the last to join the RISC bandwagon , Slater notes — repeating a comment made some time ago by Intels ' Dave House , that RISC was ‘ the last hope of the have-nots ’ — now it seems Intel is the have-not of the RISC marketplace . |
| 10 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 11 | Mercifully , by the third day Nigel got some time on his own and was able to go out and buy a meal . |
| 12 | When similar problems arose some time ago your predecessor Inspector Pinder and PC Shaw from Cabus came to a Parish Council meeting to advise us on what steps could be taken and there was some improvement . |
| 13 | I could do with you on my permanent staff — but I think that these articles will hit home , cause a stir , such a stir as Henry Mayhew created some time ago when he , too , wrote of the cabined and confined lives of the capital 's poor . |
| 14 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 15 | What is arguably the most significant event to affect the British landscape occurred some time before 4000 BC . |
| 16 | So the mischief occurred some time between then and five-fifteen . ’ |
| 17 | The two tier system mentioned some time ago was needed now and a greater standard of excellence was essential in practical embalming . |
| 18 | The report shows that the committee devoted some time to analysing a helpful report from the Health Education Authority , ’ Beating the Ban ’ , which was published in 1990 . |
| 19 | She woke some time in the night , disoriented , wondering where on earth she was . |
| 20 | Wendell 's voice was quiet and matter-of-fact as he said , ‘ I guessed some time ago that you 'd fallen for Harry . ’ |
| 21 | She thought he welcomed some time alone . |
| 22 | I joined some time in the late thirties when I was a young member of the Foreign Office . ’ |
| 23 | Emmerdale Farm , Crown Court and General Hospital arrived some time in the middle of the afternoon — in those days , we made our own crap daytime drama . |
| 24 | Other recent imports which have yet to aspire to UK marks include a pair of Aeronca 11AC Chiefs , NC3458E and N86359 , which arrived some time ago at Compton Abbas and are now undergoing rebuilt for UK registry while similarly the frame of Stinson 108 N97915 is being slowly worked on in the gliding club hangar at Booker . |
| 25 | Their detour to Fort George crossed what is how the main road from Nairn to Inverness , and they arrived some time in the late morning . |
| 26 | The business of the yard door was puzzling ; it was bolted at II.I5 and mysteriously unbolted later so that an unidentified woman was able to enter at about 11.30 , but bolted again when the police arrived some time after six in the morning . |
| 27 | The attack happened some time between 10.50 p.m. and 11.15 p.m. inside the entrance of the Crown Hotel in Alton High Street , say police . |
| 28 | ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’ |
| 29 | Erm well it happened some time between about two and six |
| 30 | But on the question of grant maintained , of course , let's not forget what happened some time ago in places like Manchester Grammar School erm long before we had this new opting out legislation they were forced by the Labour Government to go direct grant , which they did , and they are a highly successful and I could rehearse just as many success stories , in fact many times more than Jack has rehearsed with his Hull Grammar School . |