Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [pers pn] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable . |
| 2 | During that time it has had numerous facelifts , and in what must surely be the last of its nine lives , the Big Cat has had another . |
| 3 | It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls . |
| 4 | During that time he has been pushing hard to make up any lost ground . |
| 5 | During this time it has donated more than £600,000 to over 2500 local groups , helping the disabled , under fives , elderly and youth groups with a wide range of special projects , or improving their facilities . |
| 6 | For some time she has been head dancer of a troupe and has travelled extensively abroad , taking part in cabaret on land and aboard cruise ships . |
| 7 | As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers . |
| 8 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
| 9 | For some time it has been evident that all I am to you is a vessel to receive your seed . |
| 10 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
| 11 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |
| 12 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 13 | In that time he has sat through more than 10,000 films.But he confesses that he would n't be seen dead in a cinema . |
| 14 | In that time he has said 27 funeral masses for gang members who had died at gunpoint . |
| 15 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
| 16 | In that time he has put unemployment up by nearly 1 million , so he can offer us no lectures on the subject of unemployment . |
| 17 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 18 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 19 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
| 20 | In that time it has awarded almost 30,000 at various levels , while staff have published over 12,000 books or research articles , and given almost 10,000 papers at conferences . |
| 21 | In that time it has more than doubled in value . |
| 22 | On the other hand , the mere fact that in that time she has overtaken it most one of some 20 countries that outranked her in per capita terms is enough to establish that her record is less than spectacular . |
| 23 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
| 24 | In recent time it has been thoroughly renovated with its style respected and conserved — and serves still as a place of shelter and of refreshment for travellers . |
| 25 | Now it is celebrating its 18th year with Citalia and over that time it has consistently been a most popular resort hotel . |
| 26 | Since that time she has published four articles in which she discusses the problems women experimental writers face ( 1986d , 1988a , 1989a , 1989c ; see also 1989e ) . |
| 27 | Michael Manser sold Castle Mill soon after its conversion was complete and since that time it has had two further owners , the first of whom installed a lift linking the ground-floor entrance hall with the first-floor dining-room , the generous volume of which has been somewhat reduced by the intrusion of the lift shaft into its south-west corner . |
| 28 | Since that time it has been explored in chemical systems with further mathematics and also experimentally . |
| 29 | Since that time it has had a somewhat chequered history , at certain times being in favour and at others being disapproved of most heartily . |
| 30 | He was lucky not to get a prison sentence and claims that since that time he has remained sober . |