Example sentences of "time [adv] [conj] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter had won three times already and had been unlucky not to make it a fourth title the year before . |
| 2 | The figures represented an extraordinary proportion by historical standards ( some 10 times higher than the estimated percentage of US friendly fire casualties sustained in any other 20th century war ) , and were three times higher than had been previously admitted . |
| 3 | On average , therefore , the incidence of head lice in the urban child was about three times higher than had been recorded by school medical officers before the war . |
| 4 | The best place for Jed during all of this , she 'd decided , would be with his minder ; she 'd worked out a special weekend rate with Mrs Neary some time ago and had been working on her conscience ever since . |
| 5 | The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage . |