Example sentences of "[noun] at [prep] the same time " in BNC.

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1 He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time .
2 A similar poll was carried out among academics in the United States at about the same time .
3 A dispute in Hungary at about the same time was not resolved so amicably , at least in part because Hungary occupied a far more important strategic position in terms of Soviet security than did Yugoslavia .
4 CND and judicial review At about the same time that legislation was introduced to tackle the problems raised by the Malone decision , the Massiter revelations led to a second attempt to challenge the pre-1985 procedures in the domestic courts , this time on different grounds from those which had failed before Sir Robert Megarry .
5 At first , Ackroyd thought nothing about it , but he saw him again the following Saturday at about the same time .
6 Little was known , either , about the families of fourteen children taken into care in Aberdeen at around the same time as those in Ayrshire ; they did n't look for publicity , speak to the press or generate such wide interest and public concern .
7 The revival of Roman Law in eleventh- and twelfth-century Italy , and of canon law at about the same time , accustomed men to systems of law in which legislation was normal and easy .
8 South Wales was converted in 1872 and most of the English broad gauge lines at about the same time .
9 Matty runs into small problems with Dave from within the department , who claims to have booked two sun-kissed weeks in Miami at around the same time .
10 The strike waves took place at around the same time and all won major wage increases .
11 Moreover , they must be able to anticipate IBM 's future strategy and be prepared to launch a competitive product at about the same time as IBM .
12 All these ideas were incorporated into the theory of plate tectonics which was more or less separately developed by a number of workers at about the same time in the late 1960s .
13 Popular culture , thus , and high modernism were born in the same places at about the same time .
14 The effect of Law 's abrupt departure was magnified by the departure at about the same time of Walter Long , the only other Unionist of weight who combined an acceptance of coalition ( as a defence against Labour ) with a determination that the integrity of the party should not be compromised in any way .
15 I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time .
16 According to the historians , the Norwegian companies also did experiments at about the same time .
17 Pauline Simonescu , finding the austerities of post-war London bad for business , had moved back to Paris at about the same time he , too , had returned , from Oxford .
18 I played a similar round at about the same time at the Nabisco/ Dinah Shore Tournament at Mission Hills , California .
19 He was staying there since giving up his flat at around the same time he had given up Crystal Daly .
20 Near the shore , old raised-beach deposits can be observed throughout the region , representing changes in sea levels at about the same time as the glacial episode .
21 This maintained a pattern of vulnerability for the family begun with the execution in June 1983 of five clergymen members and the arrest of many of their relations at about the same time . )
22 Scot Colin Montgomerie 's wife Eimear is also expecting a baby at around the same time .
23 He even dropped a hint that he had a conference in Perugia at about the same time and might very well find himself in Rome after it was over .
24 Since all the females in a group tend to come into oestrus at around the same time , the male goat will have a busy two or three days .
25 A group of people who entered some state at about the same time and whose life histories are thereafter studied is called a cohort .
26 In Britain at about the same time another Gallup poll showed 30 per cent of the populace were in favour of giving up the British H-bomb .
27 The same idea occurred to Henry Fosbrooke in Tanganyika at about the same time .
28 Thus it seemed , from our work and that of many other labs at about the same time , that brain RNA and protein synthesis were necessary for learning and memory formation , and that the field of biochemical memory research had taken a flying leap forward .
29 Tacoma 's own programme had to survive a court challenge at around the same time .
30 Another BBC report at about the same time reflected official thinking : ‘ The wheel of Aflaqi aggression has been turning with the help of Gulf petrodollars . ’
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