Example sentences of "be [prep] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 2 | ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems . |
| 4 | Both Father and Mother had been through difficult times financially in their twenties but Father had founded a fine family business in London which flourished and while both of them were wise and sensible about money there was never any lack of it and funds were available for anything that would widen our horizons and education . |
| 5 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 6 | The adoral shields are about 2–3 times as long as broad , wing-like , nor separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 7 | In T.buttikoferi the light and dark bands are about the same width , but in T.joka the dark ones are about 3–4 times as wide as the light . |
| 8 | Amphilepis ingolfiana The arms are about 5–6 times the disk diameter in length . |
| 9 | The arms are about 3–5 times the disk diameter , and high slightly compressed laterally . |
| 10 | The radial shields are about 1.5–2 times as long as broad , separated for their whole length . |
| 11 | Dr Curtis had been in four times . |
| 12 | The Western movie had been to America , the new promised land , what the Old Testament and its heroes — Abraham , Moses , Samson , Saul and David — had been in Biblical times . |
| 13 | It is of great significance that most of the NICs are presently or have been in recent times one-party states , not necessarily totalitarian in the classic sense , but certainly lacking in most of the genuinely pluralistic institutions that characterize advanced industrial societies . |
| 14 | I believe that we achieve this very successfully , and when you bear in mind the pressure under which the Magistracy have been in recent times , with erm industrial action , demonstrations , which have brought them to the forefront of the attention , I think it 's a remarkably achievement that the Magistrates have come through this with the public in general terms satisfied with the performance of Magistrates in the discharge of these very onerous functions . |
| 15 | A wide range of so-called sexual sicknesses was diagnosed , Instead of masturbation being classified as wrong or harmful , as it had been in Victorian times , it became not only permissible but obligatory by the new standards . |
| 16 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 17 | The teachers ' industrial action has limited this particular development , and the evaluators know of seven events which were either postponed or cancelled during the two years of the evaluation ; it is also probably the case that attendance at those events that did run was less than it would have been in happier times . |
| 18 | Now that the banks are in thinner times , might rich companies come to their rescue instead ? |
| 19 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 20 | In October 1989 a member of the Executive Council , Tony Blake , reported that four oil companies had approached Fullerton seeking oil exploration licences ; he commented that the sale of such licences could be worth several times as much as the revenue from fishing licences . |
| 21 | Mr Bland said that if LWT manages to retain its franchise , the new shares will be worth three times as much as they are now . |
| 22 | Roger , Lord North , admitted that as a subsidy commissioner he had let men off lightly in Cambridgeshire : everyone was known to be worth ten times his assessment in goods and six times in land ; some were worth twenty or thirty times their assessments . |
| 23 | A design on this sort of scale would be worth ten times the run-of-the-mill jobs she had completed just recently . |
| 24 | ‘ It 'll be like old times again with you watching my back , ’ Rust replied with a grin . |
| 25 | ‘ It 'll be like old times . ’ |
| 26 | I shall be running the saloon — it 'll be like old times , and we 've the new barmaid in the public . |
| 27 | ‘ It 'll be like old times , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 28 | It is 1800 light-years away , so that we see it today as it used to be in Roman times ; it is white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 29 | At 212½ p , down 111 2 p yesterday , the shares are on five times earnings assuming pre-tax profits of £43m this year . |
| 30 | At 160p , down 7p , H&C 's shares are on 9.4 times prospective earnings and have strong support from the dividend . |