Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] about the same time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry . |
| 2 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 3 | Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world . |
| 4 | And in the same square stood the parish church of Santa Croce , built at about the same time as the castle . |
| 5 | And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 6 | But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’ |
| 7 | It may be a coincidence that this affair , the consecration of the church at Assandun , and the introduction of monks at Bury all happened at about the same time . |
| 8 | But clear declines in infant mortality in Britain and in Belgium only become apparent some time after the beginning of the fertility decline , and in France mortality and fertility declines begin at about the same time . |
| 9 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 10 | My secretary , Angela Foley , and Clifford Bradley , the Higher Scientific Officer in the biology department , arrived at about the same time . " |
| 11 | Apple Computer Inc 's second batch of Newtons will be notebook-sized versions of the device which it expects to ship at about the same time as the small first model , according to MacWeek : the notebook will have a landscape-mode screen with a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels ; the notepad , in contrast , has a small portrait-mode screen ; Apple will also deliver its first PCMCIA slot in the Newton this summer , but a slot for the PowerBook laptops may be further away . |
| 12 | Coun Hughes said the emergency services were called to Barnard Castle shortly before 2pm , while the nearby health centre was contacted at about the same time . |
| 13 | The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England . |
| 14 | Three guerrillas were executed at about the same time for offences against civilians , according to the INPFL newspaper Scorpion on Aug. 2 . |
| 15 | Both Tom Rooney and Dan Brady realized that they were being followed at about the same time . |
| 16 | Births and abortion rates increased at about the same time . |
| 17 | The earliest known whales date from about the same time , but in this case the situation is slightly more complicated , in that these early whales were very similar to modern ones , and could be big — up to 15 m ( 50 ft ) long . |
| 18 | Similar proposals for another single-lead junction near Yoker had been submitted at about the same time , the inquiry was told , but Dr Hill had insisted that ScotRail justify its use . |
| 19 | They always passed at about the same time , right after midnight , and it was something he liked to watch , the way other people watch sunsets or the ocean . |
| 20 | Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time . |
| 21 | Only late in his life did he undertake an analysis of the economic basis of imperialism , and even then he brought together a number of particular observations rather than formulating a specific alternative to the Marxist theory , such as Schumpeter produced at about the same time . |
| 22 | In Britain , this began to happen at about the same time as the emergence of positivist criminology — though , again , this is not to suggest any simple causal relation , in either direction ( see Garland , 1985b ) . |
| 23 | A constituency operation in south-east London was begun at about the same time . |
| 24 | On 27 June the Attorney-General sent to Buckingham warrants for the sale of Neroche , Selwood and Feckenham Forests , and the disafforestment of Braydon was begun at about the same time . |
| 25 | They were working at about the same time as Turner and Constable and shared those artists ’ concerns in relation to painting directly from nature , which Dahl described as Naturvei — nature 's Way . |
| 26 | A report published at about the same time as this scheme was being inaugurated suggests , however , that BES competition for limited funds may damage housing associations by raising the cost of borrowing . |
| 27 | A case for seasonal adjustment exists where recognisable seasonal variations occur year after year with a fixed period and where the increases and decreases occur at about the same time and in about the same proportion each year . |
| 28 | Each cluster of features is acquired at about the same time , but not all speakers — now seen as " learners " — go through all five stages . |