Example sentences of "have [prep] a time " in BNC.
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1 | Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use . |
2 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |
3 | Secondly , I know that this committee has over a time been concerned about the resource needs |
4 | Christopher and I then returned to the fringes of power , having for a time been drawn perilously close to the centre . ’ |
5 | How many can a man have at a time ? |
6 | While moral suasion had been favoured in the War ( in preference to rationing ) as a means of restricting domestic demand , and had for a time been partially successful , as peace returned it lost much of its impact . |
7 | This concept of ‘ legal despotism ’ had for a time considerable importance , at least in intellectual circles . |
8 | If Country Jacobitism had for a time in the early 1690s represented an alliance of disillusioned Whigs and Tories , it nevertheless ended up as a platform which drew support almost exclusively from Tories . |
9 | He became enormously interested in these papers and the effect they had at a time when many people thought Britain was on the brink of popular revolution . |