Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] a time when " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins .
3 Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins .
4 Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereigns were king coins .
5 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 .
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