Example sentences of "[was/were] at the height " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN the Indian princes were at the height of their outrageous fortune , the Maharajah of Bharatpur had 24 Rolls-Royces in his garage . |
| 2 | At that time mammals were at the height of their evolutionary diversification . |
| 3 | Within 4 years they were at the height of their achievements . |
| 4 | Seventeen years before Maxse 's death , but if this seems odd it is understandable , for Maxse was at the height of his powers before 1914 and a negligible figure thereafter . |
| 5 | The celebrated preacher , Edward Irving ( 1792–1834 ) , who was at the height of his powers and still at peace with the Church of Scotland , had returned from London one Sabbath evening to preach once more to his own people . |
| 6 | At forty-five years of age he was at the height of his powers , determined to drive out the Almoravids and bring about a united Spain . |
| 7 | By the 1860's , when he was at the height of his fame , tragedy struck as he took increasingly to drink . |
| 8 | In 1713 , by which time Erskine was at the height of his influence , he received a letter at St. Petersburg ( Leningrad ) from Ayrshire 's Earl of Loudoun , asking him to favour a young Scottish doctor called Thomas Garvine who was working as a surgeon in St. Petersburg hospital . |
| 9 | Coincidentally this was at the height of the News International affair , which undoubtedly provided a severe test for the Code and its guidelines . |
| 10 | The cartoons were hilarious , Guttersnipe was at the height of his form , Hind and Mosco were up to their mischievous tricks . |
| 11 | After his death , his wife told of an occasion , when Higgins was at the height of his medical practice , and when a young woman was ‘ seized with such a violent haemorrhage that the only expedient was transfusion ’ . |
| 12 | In the same period a man with seventeen years of experience as apprentice and officer in tankers , passenger- and tramp steamers all over the world was at the height of a career as a popular author of tales which bore the legend ‘ a story for boys ’ on title-pages as well as on dust-jackets . |
| 13 | At that time Romano 's was at the height of its glory ; Mr Lyons and Mr Salmon were presiding at the Trocadero ; and at Simpson 's in the Strand a fish luncheon for three , consisting of turbot , stewed eels , whitebait , celery and cheese , with two bottles of Liebfraumilch , cost £1.1s.3d . |
| 14 | He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war . |
| 15 | At that time , in 1934 , Mussolini was at the height of his power and popularity . |
| 16 | By 1252 he was at the height of his power and high in royal esteem . |
| 17 | It was at the height of the disorder that the noise penetrated to Toby Freely . |
| 18 | Roy of the Rovers was started as a weekly comic in 1976 , when the character was at the height of his fame in the Tiger comic . |