Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a bit of a pill at the time and y used to pay a shilling in the pound , well a shilling was a lot more valuable than it is now and erm I used to begrudge paying in it forty eight and sixpence but it does provide the , well the pleasures of life now , whereby the pens the ordinary old age pension would n't . |
| 2 | In this method , the attainment of a child at the time of the test is compared with his or her attainment at time of entry to the school . |
| 3 | For example , what , if any , knowledge is required on the part of a payer at the time of payment to entitle him to recovery at a later date ? |
| 4 | He decided to feature John , who was out of a job at the time . |
| 5 | If Brian and John were engaged in a get-away from the scene of a crime at the time of the accident , John could also raise the defence of ex turpi causa ( illegality ) to the action . |
| 6 | It was a bit of a catch-phrase at the time . |
| 7 | To the Editor of The Times , 18 December 1990 : Sir , You said in your leader of 14 December , ‘ the highly political decision to enter the European exchange rate mechanism last October and at an exchange rate of DM2.95 to the pound looked like a mistake at the time . |
| 8 | The girl , who will be seven next month , told the High Court in Glasgow that her grandfather had been wearing a red nose and had been dressed like a clown at the time . |
| 9 | This includes any local authority which is providing accommodation for a child at the time an application is made and anyone caring for the child when proceedings are commenced . |
| 10 | His marriage ended , he was distracted by love , and for a while at the time of the oil crisis it was hard to make a sale , but towards the end of the Seventies and into the Eighties , things picked up . |
| 11 | Drescher has not the pervasiveness of Wedgwood 's image of the kneeling slave , first designed for a medallion at the time of the 1788 petition campaign but afterwards widely translated to other formats . |
| 12 | The usual reward for a dedication at the time , according to Korshin , was about £10 , the amount Chesterfield gave Johnson on the proposals for his dictionary . |
| 13 | To make this silver anniversary picture , you could either press the flowers used to celebrate the day itself or you could press a selection of flowers beforehand and give the finished picture as a present at the time of the anniversary . |
| 14 | And as a mother at the time di do you remember having problems getting food and things during the War ? |
| 15 | Although the Office describes her as a recluse at the time of her cure , there is a discrepancy here between the date at which she was enclosed ( 1348 ) and the fact that several years elapsed between the cure and the relapse of her illness when Rolle died , since many manuscripts attest to Rolle 's death in 1348 . |
| 16 | ‘ It was seen as a watershed at the time , ’ says William Oddie . |
| 17 | My mother enquired after Ras Tafari 's wife and family , especially after his eldest son , Asfa Wossen , who as a baby at the time of the battle of Sagale had sheltered with us in the Legation ; then they spoke of mutual friends , and recalled events that had occurred while we were in Abyssinia . |
| 18 | A spinster in her seventies and employed as a housekeeper at the time , she died in Bishopsgate Street on 17 April 1898 . |
| 19 | The word Freedom was being bandied about a lot at the time and meant many different things . |
| 20 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 21 | Katie , from Hawley , Hants , had been staying with a pal at the time of her murder after a row with her parents two weeks earlier . |
| 22 | She claimed to have been shopping with a boyfriend at the time . |
| 23 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
| 24 | ‘ It did n't help me to have to live in a hotel at the time . |
| 25 | ‘ It did n't help me to have to live in a hotel at the time . |
| 26 | In one of his experiments , lie detectors were connected to two house plants that had been present in a room at the time of a murder . |
| 27 | One most destructive mode by which vast numbers are destroyed is that of chasing the birds in a boat at the time they shed their primary quill-feathers , when being unable to fly they are soon rowed down and captured ; this practice , which is to be much regretted , is usually resorted to for the sake of the beautiful down with which the breasts are clothed , but not unfrequently is mere wantonness . |
| 28 | Although in some dioceses individual families came close to obtaining a monopoly over the episcopate , in others there was considerable rivalry which came to a head at the time of episcopal elections . |
| 29 | From 1966 to 1969 he was a fellow of Balliol College , Oxford , and had just been appointed to a readership at the time of his death . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) The proceedings to be taken on each of those sittings shall be as shown in the second column , and shall be brought to a conclusion at the time specified in the third column , of the following Table — |