Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] at [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Percentage of pupils absent at some time during the week in November was 30% . |
| 2 | ‘ 87 per cent of women work at some time in your lives . ’ |
| 3 | All other others on these pages are applicable for customers booking at any time . |
| 4 | She still keeps in touch with friends made at that time and sends a copy of the Glenpatrick News to the retired Chief Industrial Engineer , Mr Wyffles . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , the fact remains that even this frog is dependent upon rains arriving at some time and its active life is , in reality , condensed to that brief moment when the desert is wet . |
| 6 | None of this alters the fact that it is possible to use these adjectives with a tense value distinctively different from that of the preceding verb ; see ( 51 ) and the contrast in ( 52 ) : ( 51 ) we all know Cerrutty to have been fortunate ( 52 ) ( a ) in the test my men showed themselves alert ( b ) in the test my men showed themselves to have been alert In ( 52 ) , ( a ) would naturally be suitable when the men respond promptly during the test , and ( b ) when , for instance , they had been alert in paying attention to instructions given at some time before the test . |
| 7 | The 1987 Act is therefore partly a response to lessons learnt at that time . |