Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A high degree of constructive conflict is almost essential in this process and I should perhaps quote the comments of a wise manager I worked for at one time , who pointed out that in industry the optimum level of conflict is not zero ; just as no friction or one hundred per cent friction immobilizes movement in a mechanical sense , so total absence of conflict or one hundred per cent conflict will immobilize movement in a company . |
| 2 | Scores of students I spoke with at that time suffered hurt pride that socialist China , supposedly superior to capitalist states , could be defeated by its small neighbour ( and soon to be returned ) Hong Kong . |
| 3 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 4 | The only advance they learned of during that time was von Ludendorff 's . |
| 5 | Spend some moments thinking over one or more examples of what you have noted , and if you can remember what it felt like at that time . |
| 6 | When his father died in April 1617 he was living in Braintree , Essex , probably working in the shop of John Lawrence , grocer and apothecary , and one of the leading townsmen , whose daughter Mary he married at about this time . |