Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’
2 She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time .
3 The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it .
4 This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent .
5 Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan .
6 In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time .
7 In Holland , it is a different situation as most of the players are students and those that are n't are compensated financially for additional time off work .
8 Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases .
9 The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs .
10 While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system .
11 He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska .
12 The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century .
13 The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow .
14 Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment .
15 The process has been going on for some time .
16 My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round .
17 The argument had been going on for some time .
18 The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it .
19 One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time
20 When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time .
21 ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time .
22 Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that .
23 ‘ She was n't frightened of flying , but she was very frightened of the seat belt , so I think she 'd been tied down at one time .
24 However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings .
25 Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time .
26 Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time .
27 Ghosts , fairies , dragons , giants , the devil and visitors from space have all been brought in at one time or another .
28 I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there .
29 ‘ We have a divorce law which allows marriages to be broken up after less time than the run of an average HP agreement , ’ Mr Field said .
30 It seems reasonable to assume that the arrangements could be completed effectively within that time .
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