Example sentences of "[prep] this time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Clinical measurements were becoming popular about this time , and many interesting things were being discovered as a result of this more quantitative approach . |
| 32 | About this time , Vermuyden vanished from public life , although it was not until 1677 that he died , full of years and riches , and was buried in St Margaret 's , Westminster . |
| 33 | The invention of the zodiac , the belt round the sky in which the sun , moon , and planets lie , also occurred about this time . |
| 34 | It is possible that the motive was astrological and that the invention of horoscopic astrology at about this time was due to the influence of Iranian doctrines of the immortality and celestial origin of the soul . |
| 35 | It was about this time that the meal ended . |
| 36 | It was also at about this time that a friend of Charlotte ( whom I met at a party ) commented on how much better Charlotte was looking — considering the circumstances . |
| 37 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 38 | The late Mr Tom McCabe was sexton about this time . |
| 39 | It was about this time that Scott found out that Charles Barry junior had distributed a paper to MPs pressing his own claim to the Foreign Office . |
| 40 | At about this time tights were no longer worn on stage : ‘ wet white ’ was used for the Girls ' legs . |
| 41 | Until the school library service emerged in the USA about this time , their public libraries also , incidentally , took the responsibility of training teachers in the use of libraries as well , partly to give teachers the ability to run school libraries and to offer library instruction to their pupils . |
| 42 | Somewhere about this time the squadron we had at Bourn was shifted up north to another Group . |
| 43 | Such secondary pulses have been observed at about this time of year after very strong El Ninos in 1957 , 1956 and 1972 — but this 1982 ‘ secondary ’ would have been stronger than the ‘ primary ’ it belongs to , again raising the question ‘ why ? ’ |
| 44 | About this time recruits had to pass an examination in English and arithmetic before being given permanent employment . |
| 45 | About this time some members of the Scottish field staff began to use petrological microscopes to identify the rocks from their mapping areas . |
| 46 | About this time the Geomagnetism Unit and the Global Seismology Unit were incorporated into NERC and became component parts of IGS . |
| 47 | It was about this time that Elizabeth 's growing reputation began to attract the envy and malice of reviewers . |
| 48 | About this time I wrote to her : |
| 49 | In another letter about this time , Elizabeth explained a reference to ‘ the dark room ’ at Braemar Mansions : |
| 50 | Another undated scrap about Ivy must date from about this time , when she still invited people to luncheon : |
| 51 | Hamilton , who claimed an aircraft identified as a ‘ DO215 ’ round about this time . |
| 52 | Whiteley , C.O. of 69 Squadron , recalled : ‘ It was about this time that we were stood by to intercept transport aircraft proceeding from Italy to North Africa . |
| 53 | It was about this time that Wordsworth met Coleridge ( 1772–1834 ) , whom we are considering in this chapter as an important English philosopher rather than as a poet . |
| 54 | His Majesties Printers , at or about this time , had committed a scandalous mistake in our English Bibles by leaving out the word NOT in the Seventh Commandment . |
| 55 | German radar at St Marc or lookouts at about this time reported 17 ships , so the coastal batteries were closed up for action against ships . |
| 56 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
| 57 | About this time Brayton Case , the American Baptist missionary , lost his life . |
| 58 | At about this time my third sister was born . |
| 59 | I think it was about this time ( I ca n't tell exactly because my diary makes no reference at any point to the practice ) that I discovered purging . |
| 60 | Its adoption by the merchant service seems to have been fairly gradual ( and was not complete until the 1860 s ) because about this time hemp rope was improved by being laid up , or twisted , mechanically , and thus much more tightly , so that the creep was considerably reduced . |