Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] some time " in BNC.

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1 The flat area to the south was drained at some time in the eighteenth century and a canal was built across it .
2 A shed was broken into some time between Thursday night and Friday morning and electrical tools worth £100 were stolen .
3 Erm briefly , the situation is that it 's alleged that he broke two stained glass door panels and Mr denies that he broke the second of the two , the one at the front door he says was broken at some time earlier on the evening on which he was involved .
4 The one at the front door he says was broken at some time earlier than the evening on which he was involved .
5 The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years .
6 He was speaking for some time and when he had finished he turned to his wife .
7 No. 16 was sent there early in 1928 and was gone for some time .
8 And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building .
9 After closure of Woodhead as a through route , the Sheffield to Penistone section was retained for some time in order to allow upgrading of the route via Barnsley .
10 Although other burials clustered around the enclosure , the internal area was respected , until the whole monument was dismantled at some time in the fourth century .
11 There is only one ‘ edition ’ of The Fairy Queen , which was issued first in 1692 — in May , when the show opened ( this is clear from Tonson 's advertisement in The London Gazette ) ; it was re-issued at some time in 1693 , with the modifications already described — a new title-page , a new Act 1 , and two new songs on single-leaf inserts later in the book .
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