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Example sentences for "time been"

  • On Lake Champlain, where our superiority had for some time been undisputed, the British squadron lately came into action with the American, commanded by Captain Macdonough.

  • And information has from time to time been communicated to the Pension Office questioning or denying the right of persons placed upon the pension list to the bounty of the country.

  • So much weight has from time to time been attached to these considerations that Congress have passed laws giving actual settlers on the public lands a right of preemption to the tracts occupied by them at the minimum price.

  • Trees, souvenir trees, had from time to time been planted on the lawn by visiting friends.

  • Illustration: "Souvenir trees had from time to time been planted on the lawn by visiting friends.

  • But although speculations have been many, and various plausible theories have from time to time been advanced, it may, we think, safely be said that none have been absolutely proved or universally accepted.

  • Yet Salzburg, through the centre of which flows the silver-hued Salzach, is in a way as beautifully situated and as charming as any of the towns to which it has from time to time been likened.

  • Various attempts have from time to time been made to prepare paper which might make the fraudulent alteration of cheques and other documents difficult or impossible.

  • These latter have in the course of time been so thoroughly united with the layer of varnish spread over the surface of the picture that there no longer exists any decided limit between the picture and the varnish.

  • The late Dr Parkes has given a summary of various reports that have from time to time been issued as to the effects of sewage farms upon the public health and comfort.

  • A few small remains have from time to time been found at Stretford, but scarcely sufficient to justify the idea that here was a Roman camp.

  • Song: How blest has my time been John Wilke.

  • John Addington Symonds Song How blest has my time been, what days have I known, Since wedlock's soft bondage made Jessie my own!

  • Much has from time to time been done to restore it, but the restorations and additions have not invariably been done judiciously or with knowledge.

  • If further evidence were required of the very ancient existence of the place it is afforded by the very considerable discoveries of Roman pottery, coins, and other relics which have from time to time been made.

  • Many things have changed; but the anchor and the block, though the size and pattern of the former have from time to time been modified, remain, we are told, practically the same as a century or more ago.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute silence; could muster; cubic centimeter; dramatic poetry; much hurt; scant rainfall; time after; time before; time being; time came; time for; time goes; time have; time must; time past; time required; time the; time when; time will; time will come when; time wore; time would; times gone; times greater; times like; times when