Example sentences of "widely [verb] [prep] the time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The results were widely interpreted at the time as a personal vindication for the General .
2 These doubts were still widely encountered at the time of the 1840 Convention but a debate there and at the 1843 meeting stimulated the search for a reliable supply of free-labour cotton to reduce dependence on the slaveholders of the American South .
3 The 387ft-tall Commercial Union tower , designed by architects GMW and now a shattered shell , was widely praised at the time of its completion in the late 1960s as a successful adaptation of the modern American commercial style , fronting a Manhatten style piazza .
4 Thatcherism was widely viewed at the time as a mad right-wing aberration which the people would not stand for long .
5 The purpose of the law , which was not widely practised by the time of Jesus , was to preserve both a family line and the inheritance of family possessions and property .
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