Example sentences of "at about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about that time , plastics was one of two ICI divisions that had been selected to come under the scrutiny of McKinsey , the famous management consulting group . |
| 2 | Chiswick , at about that time , was enjoying its reputation as a healthy environment which one resident , Dr. W. Rose recommended to many people including Thomas Bentley , the partner to Josiah Wedgwood , and the manager of that famous Staffordware depot at Chelsea . |
| 3 | He was instrumental in developing Oxford and Cambridge Roads — both named after the Universities that held their annual river boat race on the River Thames into the Chiswick area — also Harvard Road , which was named after the American University who rowed against Oxford and Cambridge , at about that time , He extended his development to the other side of Chiswick High Road , including Thorney Hedge Road and Silver Crescent , Mr Tomlinson built houses in other areas close by , including Clarence Road , off Wellesley Road , and his son , Richard , became an architect and was involved in the building of the Gunnersbury Baptist Church in Wellesley Road . |
| 4 | At about that time the river was also dammed to form the mill pond , the Dickler having previously been used directly . |
| 5 | At about that time , a meeting allegedly took place between Nicholson , Hofmann and another of Hofmann 's associates , Henry Medlock , at which it was suggested that arsenic acid should be tried as an oxidising agent . |
| 6 | But at about that time that Barnes was beginning an afternoon of goal-kicking misery by bouncing the conversion attempt off an upright , Ubogu was laying in midfield , clutching his head . |
| 7 | The blurring of boundaries , which took place at about that time , had created such anomalies as a householder having an Essex postal address while paying his rates to Suffolk County Council . |
| 8 | It was at about that time that I wrote a paper entitled — I hoped provocatively — ‘ What should a biochemistry of learning and memory be about ? ’ |
| 9 | At about that time his father died and the family moved to Glasgow ; soon afterwards Robertson decided to become an engineer . |
| 10 | ‘ Whoever it was could have made a mistake over the night ; I was out at about that time on Saturday night . ’ |
| 11 | At about that time , Kurds in Iraq , hoping perhaps to emulate the positive side of what had been achieved over the border , rose in revolt . |
| 12 | At about that time a number of hotel-schools who had been involved in looking at accreditation with EURHODIP [ a group which has developed a European hotel diploma ] had formed the European Foundation for the Accreditation of Hotelschool Programmes [ EFAH ] . |
| 13 | At about that time , Ken asked Codron if he had anything for him . |