Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was light years away at the time these alleged crimes took place . |
| 2 | Staying in hospital can be a traumatic experience for young children — as well as having to cope with strange hospital routines or unpleasant treatments , they may also be offered unfamiliar foods just at the time when their appetites are likely to be poor and they need encouragement to eat a healthy , balanced diet . |
| 3 | They , like the plane , in later years , represented a special link in the canal line between the East Midlands and London , a line for which there were great hopes both at the time of construction at the beginning of the nineteenth century and of its rehabilitation at the end of the century . |
| 4 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 5 | The author of the Life of Wilfrid , who represents Wilfrid as persuading the king and queen to accept the word of God and as preaching to a people who had never before heard the Gospel , undoubtedly exaggerates the paganism of the southern Saxons , for Bede reveals from non-Wilfridian sources , first , that Aethelwealh had married a Christian princess and had been baptized himself and , second , that a number of ealdormen and thegns had likewise received baptism , with the priests , Eappa , Padda , Burghelm and Aeddi ministering to the common people either at the time of Aethelwealh 's conversion or subsequently ( HE IV , 13 ) . |
| 6 | Yes , well er I was saying er it was this Mr I think it was , but it was to do with er a big firm in at the time and they wanted er some locks at Liverpool |
| 7 | Since 15 million years is a very short period in terms of evolution , we have to conclude that there were some big whales around at the time of the catastrophe . |
| 8 | Had n't Naylor Massingham been the only other person around at the time of that incident ? |
| 9 | In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time . |
| 10 | The new interpretation seems to push Hallucigenia , the Chinese fossils , and some other species around at the time ( including another of the Burgess oddballs , Aysheaia ) into the arthropod phylum , with insects , crabs and trilobites . |
| 11 | It could also tie up members of the C E C , the General Secretary , the Regional Secretary , the President , Officers and many others in internal wrangles new union just at the time when we need to look outward in the next two or three years . |