Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Soviet Union popular support for the manned space programme was dwindling at a time of great economic hardship and political uncertainty for the majority of the population . |
| 2 | Laugh , if you must , about Skoda , but its market share is increasing at a time when some ‘ serious ’ manufacturers are in decline . |
| 3 | Given that Finn 's Hotel is where the author 's adored Nora Barnacle was working at the time they met , will it be a love story ? |
| 4 | The supporting cast was made up of Sylvia Miles , Brenda Vaccaro , John McGiver , Barnard Hughes ( film debut ) , Ruth White and Jennifer Salt ( the screenwriter 's 25-year-old daughter with whom the divorced Voight was living at the time ) . |
| 5 | If the power is accidentally turned off in use or the power source runs out , the user 's place is kept automatically in whatever application is running at the time . |
| 6 | In the simplest systems , where only one program is running at a time , this means merely expediting the changeover from one program to the next . |
| 7 | It was easy to obey the lieutenant 's command to keep her head down and say nothing , but her heart was thundering by the time they reached the relative safety of the airfield 's terminal building . |
| 8 | DNA changes by biological evolution only on a time scale of millions of years , but our powers of destruction are increasing on a time scale for the evolution of information , which is now only twenty or thirty years . |