Example sentences of "have in [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | An American model of ‘ privatism ’ ( see Barnekov , Boyle and Rich , 1989 ) has in recent times been deemed as exportable . |
| 2 | Numerous questions have been asked in the House about the police national computer , but to my knowledge this is the first opportunity we have had in recent times to discuss wider issues . |
| 3 | I was curious to see what shrift she would receive in Naipaul 's novel : the work of a man who has been spoken of by an old friend , the novelist Paul Theroux , as having in earlier times been ‘ merciless , solitary , and ( one of his favourite words ) unassailable ’ . |
| 4 | Some farms had in recent times improved their stock handling facilities and this had helped greatly . |
| 5 | Although this took place only three days later , Brunel and Burn had in that time examined forty-four schemes and produced a nine-page report vindicating the efforts of Angell and Pownall . |
| 6 | The lords-of the manoirs and their servants converged as they had in medieval times . |
| 7 | Assorted pundits and government ministers have in recent times deliberately tried to create the impression that reducing interest rates is the main , or even the only , way to haul the British economy out of recession . |
| 8 | The local authorities have in recent times been empowered to control both the use to which property is put and the maintenance of premises . |