Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Kelly believe winter — allowing the results of that animal attraction to be born nine months later at a time of peak autumn plenty .
2 About half a dozen employees decided not to relocate their homes immediately at the time of the company 's move south , but to relocate in the following year .
3 Figure 4.1 shows the employment status of two age-groups of older workers immediately after redundancy and three years later at the time of interview .
4 When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’
5 HCI offers discounts for all children aged 2–11 years inclusive at the time of travel .
6 Ten years earlier at the time of the Younger Report , it had been possible to compile a rough estimate of the number of computer installations ; all thoughts were then on the powerful centralised main-frame equipment which had dominated the technology till then .
7 Perhaps it would be possible to screen all pernicious anaemia patients gastroscopically at the time of the diagnosis and follow up at least young patients ( those under 60 years of age ) endoscopically every three years .
8 For centuries before the arrival of Westerners it had been the symbol of the soul and of eternal life ; and for the Chinese , who traded with the southern islands long before the time of Christ , the bird became associated with the phoenix myth — which crept across the continents into the mind of medieval Europe , even before it was known that the world was round .
9 Jack avoided being a witness to these scenes much of the time by residing in college .
10 In 1774–80 for every British seaman who lost his life in battle , fifteen died of disease , while in 1779 Britain was preserved from invasion partly by the scurvy which swept the French and Spanish squadrons then for a time in control of the Channel .
11 The winner of stage eight was the Australian , Patrick Jonker , who escaped from the leading break of 13 riders with a mile to go and came in 12 seconds ahead in a time of 4 hours 40 minutes 45 seconds for the 125 miles .
12 Even though Durie and Hobbs were thousands of miles away at the time of Britain 's demise at the hands of the Asians in Melbourne last December , the pair nevertheless felt the pain their colleagues were suffering .
13 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 .
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