Example sentences of "of that time " in BNC.

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1 It is clear enough , none the less , that the hero of that time is like the hero of some other times , including Hamlet 's .
2 The Fox in Holgate Road , York was an outstanding beneficiary of the ‘ Tetley Heritage Pub ’ initiative of that time .
3 Leonard recalled his own practice of that time , an ‘ instinctive ’ use of ‘ primitive meditation ’ : ‘ I sat with my hands on my lap , like a cataleptic … like Ezekiel !
4 He believes , or he chooses to believe , that in Chicago or somewhere else there were readers of Poetry magazine in 1918 who zealously and in all seriousness wanted to know what French poets of that time they might profitably read , and what in the broadest terms they should look for in each of them .
5 By insisting on the arbitrariness and narrowness of gender roles , and that they are socially ascribed rather than naturally given , Orton expresses a central motif in the sexual politics of that time .
6 And in all of that time we had Gullfoss to ourselves .
7 For most of that time he took drugs .
8 Mr Clay added : ‘ I have spent 35 years serving the nursing profession , most of that time as a member of the College .
9 It must be realized , moreover , that there is a hidden complexity to the apparently simple fact that the natural science of later centuries is a product of that time .
10 Towards the end of that time she sent me a letter ( not entirely personal , being printed , in facsimile handwriting ) :
11 Foreign dependants of the Court continued to be appointed to important Forest wardenships — such as Amaury de St Amand , Steward of the Household 1233–40 , who was also warden of the Forest of Dean during the greater part of that time , and Peter Chaceporc , the able Poitevin Keeper of the Wardrobe 1241–54 , who was appointed to the same wardenship in May 1248 .
12 The Justices of the Forest were to drive the deer from all disafforested districts into the remaining forests during the forty days after disafforestment : after the expiration of that time places put out of the forest were to be exempt from the operation of the Forest law .
13 Nurses claimed she had waited most of that time for an ambulance to take her to another hospital .
14 A weaker man might have become debauched ( as many kings of that time certainly did ) yet Charles clearly never allowed his vital energies to weaken his will .
15 But the atmosphere of that time contained virtually no free oxygen ( that is , oxygen gas ) .
16 Most of that time he dived for red snapper along the edge of a break in the reef .
17 Unastounding today , his openness shocked and perplexed the establishment and anti-drug abuse authorities at the time , especially in the panic-stricken aftermath of Sharon Tate and other horrendous drug-related deaths of that time , including Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison .
18 Our Prime Minister of that time , Mr Lloyd George , had called for another great conference to be held in Italy in the spring of 1922 , and initially his lordship 's aim was to organize a gathering at Darlington Hall with a view to ensuring a satisfactory outcome to this event .
19 When that work is taken away , the dog becomes a luxury and one which the simple people of that time could not afford .
20 The buildings date from the 1870s and are recognized as one of the best , if not the best , surviving groups of commercial buildings of that time .
21 This facility ‘ for burying an emotion in my heart or brain for forty years , and exhuming it at the end of that time as fresh as when interred ’ , as he described it , lies behind many of his most successful lyrics .
22 At the end of that time , each one of them had experienced unpleasant symptoms ; some became hostile and argumentative ; some had panic attacks and nightmares ; all of them found their attention span had grown shorter and they were finding it more difficult to remember things .
23 My pictures of that time were really unknown Stanley Spencer 's .
24 The difficulties of the new professionally conscious architects of that time , when facing the judgement of enlightened amateurs , became a recurring situation during the campaign for new Government Offices .
25 His patronage may have seemed essential to the architects of that time , although corporate clients were emerging , such as Poor Law Boards , or boards of directors of railway companies .
26 For much of that time , local government acted as an arena through which wider political debates about the state were conducted .
27 During the troubled times between 1880 and 1883 , when the Fenians were active , ( the IRA of that time ) , and successive dynamite outrages were arousing consternation throughout the country , an anonymous communication was received on the eve of one of Her Majesty 's periodical journeys warning the Government that an attempt would be made to wreck the Royal Train .
28 Inspired by the success of the excellent professional watercolourists of that time , many travellers set out for the Lakes with their sketching equipment , mirrors and paints .
29 It is now clear that dinosaurs were supreme for 130 million years , and that mammals co-existed with them , albeit small and insignificant through most of that time .
30 The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value .
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