Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the reason I 'm asking is because I suspect it would have been greater at the time I was talking about all the ago though . |
| 2 | To buy a second engraved copy at 24 livres , which was about 5 per cent of the cost of a good harpsichord , would have been extravagant at a time when copying was cheap . |
| 3 | Strip examination revealed that this was the result of slight corrosion on the contacts , and the evidence suggested that this may well have been present at the time of the accident . |
| 4 | ‘ She would have been fourteen at the time of the Opet festival . ’ |
| 5 | ( One even refused to stand down although he would have been seventy-six at the time of the next election . ) |
| 6 | I must own that the possibility of taking matters further did cross my mind and infiltrated my uncensored dreams , but it would have been unwise at the time and later I was glad we had left things as they were . |