Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [det] time in " in BNC.

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1 It 's an extremely useful accessory if you 're working on more than one job at the same time in different places , so that the tools you need are always with you — and it 's invaluable for working from ladders or scaffolding .
2 George Pittendrigh and I joined the organisation at the same time in the grey austere years after the war .
3 Thus the more nearly perfect a market is , the stronger is the tendency for the same price to be paid for the same thing at the same time in all parts of the market : but of course if the market is large , allowance must be made for the expense of delivering the goods to different purchasers ; each of whom must be supposed to pay in addition to the market price a special charge on account of delivery .
4 The harvest was reported on Sept. 19 as being 40,000,000 tonnes down on the amount at the same time in 1990 .
5 Suppose the Universe really was like that , and you had two astronauts leaving the Earth at the same time in opposite directions , one from the North Pole , the other from the South .
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