Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry . |
| 2 | On 27 June the Attorney-General sent to Buckingham warrants for the sale of Neroche , Selwood and Feckenham Forests , and the disafforestment of Braydon was begun at about the same time . |
| 3 | Coun Hughes said the emergency services were called to Barnard Castle shortly before 2pm , while the nearby health centre was contacted at about the same time . |
| 4 | A constituency operation in south-east London was begun at about the same time . |
| 5 | Your Big Mac index , and William Burke 's letter in the same issue about the yen-dollar exchange rate , brought to mind an explanation , which may be apocryphal , of how the exchange rate of ¥360 to $1 was arrived at during the occupation of Japan . |
| 6 | Randy Hansen 's stage show is an extension of what Jimi Hendrix was doing at around the time of Woodstock and the Isle Of Wight festivals . |
| 7 | In France , for example , the domestic CP market was launched at around the same time , but by the end of 1990 it had grown in size to FF165 billion , around four times the size of the UK market ( see Table 6.10 for a comparison of commercial paper markets in Europe , the ECP market and the US CP market ) . |