Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at [art] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 7,000 young men spent time at American air bases in Alabama , Georgia , Florida and South Carolina , learning the arts of flying at a time when Britain was desperately short of qualified pilots . |
| 2 | Hart was a great master printer and , as he had said of Charles , third Earl Stanhope [ q.v. ] , ‘ he did solid good to the Art of Printing at a time when help was sorely needed ’ ( Hart , Charles , Earl Stanhope , and the Oxford University Press , 1896 ) . |
| 3 | He already had a verbal agreement with Forest for another year , but chairman Frederick Reacher was anxious to put it in writing at a time when the anti-Clough lobby was growing in strength . |
| 4 | Yet if it is not alarmed by this procedure , you may well be able to relieve the obstruction and so prevent the dog from choking at a time when rapid action is required . |
| 5 | The journeymen wool sorters of Exeter did this in 1787 before striking at the time when their employers had large wool stocks on hand . |
| 6 | All of these needs , additional to the demands which confront individual teachers in their subject and departmental roles , have to met at a time when the morale of teachers is dangerously low , and the supply of teachers in some subjects and localities is breaking down . |
| 7 | When you feel worthless , useless — and do things often without knowing at the time why you have . |