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

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1 Others see it occurring at exactly the same time each day , but with no obvious connection with any other activity .
2 But in manuscript B of ‘ The Hunt for the Ring ’ ( written at much the same time ) just this idea is being entertained .
3 These were radical claims to make , not least because there was developing at exactly the same time a theory of absolute , unlimited sovereignty which became the intellectual basis for the absolutism which was the dominant pattern of rule in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and in some countries , such as Russia and Austria , even lasted into the twentieth century .
4 Of course , the actual truth is that there 's different levels in everything , and while some of the worst Hawaiian records were released in the '40s and '50s , some of the greatest Hawaiian records were made at exactly the same time .
5 They had all died at roughly the same time , victims of one of those brief epidemics of cholera that continued to attack the city until the great Loch Katrine water scheme was opened in Victorian times .
6 The two successive episodes of Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet collapse began at precisely the same time as the climate shifts that are recorded in the Greenland ice core ( within the cited uncertainty ) .
7 The similarity of subject-matter between Picasso 's Horta landscapes and those which Braque was executing at exactly the same time at La Roche Guyon ( that is to say in mid 1909 ) enables one to appreciate with clarity the fact that , although they were reaching much the same conclusions , it was for different reasons .
8 Thus if you want the news to break at roughly the same time the material will have to be sent out at intervals appropriate to the lead times of the publications concerned , and there is always the risk that the nationals will hear of the item and decide to publish it .
9 This is directly relevant to labouring class poetry : Robert Dodsley , later a footman , and John Bancks had both been weavers and their first works appeared at almost the same time as Stephen Duck 's .
10 Mountaineering in the Pyrenees began , early in the nineteenth century , with the very practical ascents made by the mappers and surveyors , but it continued , in climbers such as Russell , with something of the flair and eccentricity with which it was also evolving at much the same time in the Alps .
11 A flood of consumer legislation passed at much the same time included the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , the fair Trading Act 1973 , the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 .
12 According to social security legislation , a " seasonal worker " is a " person whose employment is for part or parts only of the year and those parts fall at approximately the same time each year . "
13 He very wealthy , but oh dear dear he was a , he was a , tyrannical I should call him , I know for a fact that he used to before the choir walked in at night he 'd have his watch out in his hand and they 'd start at exactly the same time .
14 A level-top , apart from its looking well , was emphasized for a good economic reason : if the ploughland was level , the drill coulters would bite in at an uniform depth , and sow the seed in the same way ; the ears of corn would then mature at approximately the same time and all the seeds of corn would be approximately the same size .
15 Other themes reappeared at approximately the same time , but from quite different sources .
16 Now we have Quattro Pro for DOS version 4 to contend with , released at virtually the same time as a Windows version that looks like causing quite a stir as well .
17 It is interesting to note that high spring tides occur at approximately the same time of the day every year in each location on the coast .
18 Parallel upheavals occur at roughly the same time in jazz , where modern styles , and , in a different way , the revivalist movement , challenge the hegemony of crooners and commercial dance-bands ; and in elite music culture , where the earlier modernist outburst , headed by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , is matched by the iconoclasm of the post-war avant-garde led by Boulez , Stockhausen and C age .
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