Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because lords owned large tracts of land at a time when the opportunities for its exploitation were particularly favourable , and could add to this profit from tolls and customs on increasing trade , they could hardly avoid a substantial increase in their resources in the course of the eleventh century . |
| 2 | RJB is run by Richard Budge and its main asset is not coal but its Big Cats huge Caterpillar machines with shovels that can pick up tonnes of coal at a time . |
| 3 | Thus Goldthorpe and Lockwood ( 1969 ) carried out their research among the manual workers of Luton at a time when academic opinion was saying that such people were beginning to take on middle-class characteristics . |
| 4 | It is worthwhile looking at the advantages and disadvantages of copyright at a time when it has achieved worldwide acceptability . |
| 5 | ‘ If the money is provided it surely indicates the priorities of Government at a time of supposed financial restraint , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ If the money is provided it surely indicates the priorities of Government at a time of supposed financial restraint , ’ he said . |
| 7 | From the Cape comes wool , skins , fruit etc. etc. , while from France we often get 3,000 sacks of chestnuts at a time . |
| 8 | Each produces only a few drops of nectar at a time . |
| 9 | When he and others advocated extra divisions in the Edwardian period they could not have foreseen that the formation of a Third Division in 1920 would create an extra demand for players of talent at a time when a large part of the male population had been wiped out in a world war . |
| 10 | Pour about two inches of this mixture into a shallow tray and submerge 50 or so lengths of reed at a time . |
| 11 | talking to children openly and truthfully giving small amounts of information at a time will make the task easier |
| 12 | Taking small sections of hair at a time , pull your hair over the Flexi Comb and tuck under the edge . |
| 13 | perhaps six pints of blood at a time . |