Example sentences of "[be] happening at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 2 | And yet this is happening at a moment when the leaders in question stand exceptionally low in public esteem . |
| 3 | This sea-floor spreading , as the phenomenon is known , is happening at an impressive rate : near the Galapagos Islands the sea-floor is expanding at eight inches a year ; down by Easter Island , by nine inches . |
| 4 | All this was happening at a time when the Canadian Northern Railway was creating , in effect , a third transcontinental railway , built on much more economical lines than the exceptionally expensive and high-quality GTP . |
| 5 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |