Example sentences of "was this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wartime commentator 's jingoistic jangle was this time replaced by a solemn voice , and we were confronted with pictures of moving skeletons , some of them smiling weakly and making slow gestures . |
| 2 | But instead of the usual payload of gravel or iron ore , its hold was this time packed with several thousand colour-coded oil drums . |
| 3 | When Harriet once again saw her daughter off at Penzance station it was this time with a sense of relief . |
| 4 | It formally returned to Japan the sovereignty she had lost in her atomic-bombed defeat , and enabled her to recommence her ambitious ascent towards economic supremacy — a climb which , though frustrated and corrupted before , was this time and at last to culminate in her present astonishing success . |
| 5 | It is something he has contemplated privately before ; the temptation was this time , I suspect , to great to resist . |
| 6 | Going on down er , the profit and loss account , the tax charge er , is lower as a percentage than it was this time last year . |