Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] an [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability . |
| 2 | Up to the beginning of this century people believed in an absolute time . |
| 3 | The incident came at an awkward time , preceding by a few days a visit by the Chief Rabbi . |
| 4 | The Wright incident comes at an embarrassing time for Graham . |
| 5 | An oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation has a mean cost of £783 based on an average time in theatre ( including induction and recovery ) of around three hours and includes the cost of the staples £130 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ For man knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net , and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time , when it falleth suddenly upon them . ’ |
| 7 | The boost to disposable income comes at an awkward time , when the economic slowdown is not sufficiently well-established to have even begun to close the trade gap ; but the structural change is welcome . |
| 8 | The case comes at an embarrassing time for the world 's largest industrial company , which is already deep in the red and under attack for its bureaucratic management style . |