Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] at [art] time when " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd progressed from a rather lowly start to her present place on the team with IMP just at the time when the true importance of the fuel companies and their technicians was beginning to be appreciated by the general public , or at least those aficionados who followed the world of Grand Prix racing . |
| 2 | This rude awakening was , however , still a few years away at the time when Dustin joined . |
| 3 | The Movement increased its membership from 5,000 in 1929 to 40,000 two years later at a time when the Communist Party was at its lowest ebb . |
| 4 | Counting those in the bristle-cone pine establishes that some of these gnarled and twisted trees germinated over five thousand years ago at a time when man in the Middle East was just beginning to invent writing , and have remained alive throughout the entire duration of civilisation . |
| 5 | Modern human fossils 100000 years old are known and humans were widespread in southern Africa by 50 000 years ago at a time when Europe was still populated by the related Neanderthals . |
| 6 | He became a protector of the species four years ago at a time when badger baiting had reached alarming proportions . |
| 7 | And since an expensive loaf caused havoc in St Jude 's and trouble in everybody 's weaving sheds , with demands for higher wages keeping profits down at a time when trade was far from good — when it would probably never rise again to the level of those early , heady days when the machines first came in — then Ben Braithwaite and his dinner guests had reason for their anxiety . |
| 8 | Taylor believes he must protect Gascoigne just at a time when he seems to have shaken off the horrific knee injury that has kept him out of football for 17 months . |
| 9 | The most telling point against Janette Richardson 's methodical interpretation may well be that no commercial benefits to the merchant can be imputed to his generosity and hospitality towards the monk ; the monk is invited to his house simply " " to pleye … in alle wise " " , " to have fun in every way " ( 59 – 61 ) , and is able to borrow a hundred francs from the merchant even at a time when cash in hand would be particularly useful to him in his business ( 255 – 92 ) : this , significantly , is the immediate context of the merchant 's reflection : Derek Pearsall nicely describes the poignant ambivalence of a single action that is motivated simultaneously by instinctive self-interest and by the " " inner springs " " of human virtue in the Shipman 's merchant 's desire both to be and to be recognized as generous . |
| 10 | It could also tie up members of the C E C , the General Secretary , the Regional Secretary , the President , Officers and many others in internal wrangles new union just at the time when we need to look outward in the next two or three years . |
| 11 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 12 | Yes er somehow they , they 'd , they 'd got it , or was it or did I have to fill in a a census form just at the time when Paul was with me ? |
| 13 | In accountancy , for example , by the time you 've done your training and spent some years establishing yourself , you then have your children just at the time when you 're supposed to be going all out for partnership . |
| 14 | For the first time population could increase with a declining grain price and a less than commensurate food output , subsisting on grain imports paid for by manufactures ; ‘ It is one of the most striking ironies of intellectual history that Malthus should have fashioned his analysis just at the time when it was about to cease to be applicable to the country in which he lived ’ ( Wrigley 1986 ) . |
| 15 | Staying in hospital can be a traumatic experience for young children — as well as having to cope with strange hospital routines or unpleasant treatments , they may also be offered unfamiliar foods just at the time when their appetites are likely to be poor and they need encouragement to eat a healthy , balanced diet . |
| 16 | The West Indians were alert to any erosion of their parliamentary position even at a time when the principle of maintaining slavery was virtually lost . |
| 17 | Hence there were a considerable number of able and committed prophets around at a time when the gospel they were spreading — a gospel of modernity — was one which their auditors were anxious to hear . |
| 18 | Yes she had her aunt was a widow there at the time when she came to and she just lived about a year . |