Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [noun] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some decline of the manufacturing trade balance was probably inevitable , because of the advent of North Sea oil at a time of floating exchange rates and the increased appreciation of sterling . |
| 2 | Scargill was still the Yorkshire Area President at the time of the ballot . |
| 3 | He is in the middle of an unseemly row with Virgin Airways and was criticized in a memo from Lord Hanson to Sir Timothy Bell at the time of the abortive takeover battle between Hanson and ICI . |
| 4 | This book , with a foreword by Magnus Magnusson , became the subject of a BBC television programme at the time . |
| 5 | Injury has also cruelly affected the progress of tall seamer Jason de la Pena at a time when he looked likely to stake his first-team claim . |
| 6 | Joseph Hazelwood , the master of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker at the time of its oil spill off Alaska in 1989 [ see pp. 36606 ; 36541 ] , had his conviction for " negligent discharge of oil " quashed in early July , on the grounds that , under US federal law , a master who reported a spill could not be prosecuted for it . |
| 7 | In a mood of increasing depression Johnson , a West Brom player at the time , rang home to Sutton Coldfield . |
| 8 | He singled out bowler Curtly Ambrose and Viv Richards , the West Indies skipper at the time , for ‘ sledging ’ , cricketing parlance for verbal abuse from the opposition during a game . |
| 9 | While the new salary was a vast improvement on what it had been , it must be remembered that the salary of the High Master at Manchester Grammar School at the time was £420 , together with house . |
| 10 | However , the story starts twenty seven years ago when Anne Marie 's mother Therese worked as a P.A. to Father Benjamin Winterborne at the time of the opening of the chaplaincy centre at Manchester University . |
| 11 | Buckingham Palace officials at the time played down the seriousness of the problem and insisted he would join today 's traditional procession of Garter Knights to St George 's Chapel , Windsor , with the Queen , Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Mother . |
| 12 | It was known that the COPEI leadership had opposed Pérez 's plan ( which in the end he had cancelled ) to attend the UN " Earth Summit " in Rio de Janeiro at a time of domestic crisis . |
| 13 | Vivienne — with Bernie backing her up as Malcolm was in the States , having extended his visit after striking up a rapport with The New York Dolls at the time — talked me into doing it . |
| 14 | Earnings of other textile workers in the southern and eastern parts of the country , disclosed by Arthur Young in his Tours of the 1770s , suggest a range from the 10 to 12s ( 50-60p ) earned by the specialist blanket weavers of Witney and carpet weavers of Wilton to a low of 5s ( 25p ) scraped by Norwich worsted weavers at a time of serious decline in their trade . |