Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |
| 2 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 3 | Erm well it happened some time between about two and six |
| 4 | ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’ |
| 5 | Probably it originated many times by independent ‘ mutation ’ . |
| 6 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 7 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 8 | Even in a presidency capital like Bombay , it took some time for the station to catch up with the developing pretension of the city . |
| 9 | It took some time for the War Office to be persuaded that fugitives from the enemy could usefully serve their adopted country . |
| 10 | With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine . |
| 11 | It took some time for such an admission to emerge . |
| 12 | Because of this last-minute genesis , it took some time for the Inland Revenue to turn Mr Major 's jottings into a workable form . |
| 13 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 14 | It took some time for all the records to be checked , but it 's now agreed that IBM Corp 's full year net loss for 1992 of $4,965m goes down in history as the largest corporate loss on record , taking the baton from General Motors Corp . |
| 15 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 16 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 17 | It took some time for the first volunteers to come forward . |
| 18 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 19 | It took some time for their masters to curb them . |
| 20 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 21 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 22 | It took some time before the real Kenneth Williams came to the surface . |
| 23 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |