Sentence examples for have been time from inspiring English sources

As the electorate is already telling them, it could have been time far better spent.

Had it gone in, there would barely have been time for Hull to have kicked off.

At this point, there would still have been time to limit the damage.

There have been time periods when certain strategies worked, and, temporarily, the economics got better.

These days, in the mad rush that is the Internet, there might not have been time for the checking call.

In other places, bond guarantees have been time bombs, causing problems too severe to be solved in a workout.

By all accounts, the logistical challenges of holding the May 23 meeting there have been time-consuming and frustrating.

Such high-level wooing of the most beautiful girl in Oxford – famed for her appearance on the front page of Tatler – must have been time-consuming.

Indeed, things seem to have gone so wrong that another suggestion is that the database might have been time-bombed by a disgruntled Danger employee.

"But the captain can be banned for a game if the umpires believe they have been time-wasting or not bowling their overs, so something like that could come back to bite them on the bum".

Such front-running of seasonal milestones should no longer be surprising, given how marketers, retailers and media companies have been time-shifting the calendar to stimulate business related to holidays both official (Christmas) and unofficial (Super Bowl Sunday).