Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] at the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight , it is clear that at the time we did not fully grasp the real significance of the workers ' position . |
| 2 | The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years . |
| 3 | It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock . |
| 4 | In our squadron was a man I call an elderly because at the time he was about forty to forty five years old and we were all a bunch of kids . |
| 5 | Excess is insidious because at the time it seems a bonus but later on it can be an expense that diverts resources from development areas . |
| 6 | It was almost a year before it was strictly necessary and at the time there were voices advising delay . |
| 7 | It was built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1841 and at the time it was acclaimed as an engineering masterpiece . |
| 8 | I know it sounds pathetic but at the time it gave me a bit of a fright . ’ |
| 9 | But they were only relatively cheap because at the time I made that change musician union . |
| 10 | I was so surprised that at the time I uttered no word . |
| 11 | It 's laughable but at the time it was n't laughable but when you think back , this man that I was put on with , he was acting guard foreman . |