Example sentences of "been [prep] [det] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
| 2 | There has been for some time in Africa debate concerning the suitability for the Eucharist of wheat bread and grape wine . |
| 3 | ‘ And where d' you think you 've been to this time of night ? ’ |
| 4 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy . |
| 6 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |