Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shares in Pentos fell by an alarming 20% last week after the group issued warnings that pretax profits for 1992 would be ‘ significantly below ’ market expectations and that its final dividend would be reviewed ‘ in the light of trading at the time of the preliminary announcement in March ’ . |
| 2 | This structure of feeling is produced by a particular rhetorical device , providing an image which resonates with an unstated discourse about ‘ waves of black immigration swamping the British way of life ’ — a theme which Thatcherism was in the process of popularizing at the time . |
| 3 | During the seven months he spent there he wrote two songs , Non m'ama più and Lamento d'amore , which he had difficulty in publishing at the time , but which later became popular . |
| 4 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 5 | They were destroying something we dreamed of owning and playing but had no prospect of affording at the time . |
| 6 | There was , indeed , a certain amount of questioning at the time of dishonest business practices and the morality of trade , although this intemperate radicalism was but a marginal force in the ensuing debates on the criminal question . |
| 7 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |
| 8 | I had once found two names scratched on one of the window-panes , ‘ perhaps two soldiers billeted here for a time at the beginning of the 1914 War … ’ ( or perhaps soldiers in hiding at the time of the Reformation ? ) |
| 9 | He read no papers beyond glancing at The Times headlines . |