Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the girls walked over to the time traveller and smiled a genuine welcoming grin . |
| 2 | Women 's occupational ‘ choices ’ were limited and these five occupations predominated up to the time of World War II and well beyond it . |
| 3 | Philip of Valois 's claim , however , had the virtues of clarity and logic , whereas Edward 's claim , as French lawyers pointed out at the time and French historians have not hesitated to remark since , rested on the unsatisfactory assumption that a woman could transmit a right which she could not exercise . |
| 4 | Nine of these students had not at the time of writing completed their course of study . |
| 5 | As environmentalists pointed out at the time of the Shetlands disaster , there is a degree of hypocrisy in expressing outrage at the spillage when such accidents are the price we seem prepared to pay for access to oil . |