Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] some time " in BNC.

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1 I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty .
2 She did not know that it had been spiked with tranquillisers until she woke up some time later .
3 At last she fell asleep , but it seemed to her that she woke up some time in the night .
4 Orbit publishes Alan Dean Foster 's Son of Spellsinger ( £4.99 ) , and although the previous book in this series came out some time ago fans have long memories and this will sell well .
5 But so I spent quite some time over that .
6 This is shown in Table 2.2 where column 1 shows the price ( decreasing from £8 per unit to zero ) , column 2 shows the quantity demanded over some time period ( increasing from 40,000 units to 200,000 units ) and column 3 shows the monopolist 's total revenue ( that is , price x quantity ) over the same time period .
7 Its regional press and magazine holdings went back some time but were not large enough to qualify it as a media company .
8 I said perhaps some time afterwards .
9 One evening , Emily set aside some time when she could be alone .
10 Another item I picked up some time ago from across the Atlantic was the information that the British 7′¼″ gauge was only found on the Great Eastern , a piece of information that I 'm sure Vic Smith will agree to be even more surprising than anything in his talk !
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