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

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1 Only six ( 9 per cent ) of the network sample were employed at the time of interview while 58 ( 91 per cent ) were unemployed .
2 Our aim in this study was to establish whether the rate of unnecessary operations and the rate of complicated appendicitis among patients undergoing surgery for suspected acute appendicitis were related to the time of presentation to hospital and the delay between presentation and surgery .
3 C 5 -unmethylated phasmid DNA was incubated with S-adenosyl-[ 3 H ] -methionine and Dcm or Dcm/Cys177Ser ; aliquots of the reaction mixture were removed at the time points indicated and DNA precipitated with 20% aqueous TCA .
4 All hotels and guest houses in this brochure were registered at the time of going to press .
5 In other words , 67% of the urine samples found to be positive on culture were judged at the time of voiding to be clear .
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