Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] about the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |
| 2 | A similar poll was carried out among academics in the United States at about the same time . |
| 3 | A dispute in Hungary at about the same time was not resolved so amicably , at least in part because Hungary occupied a far more important strategic position in terms of Soviet security than did Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | At first , Ackroyd thought nothing about it , but he saw him again the following Saturday at about the same time . |
| 5 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 6 | Pauline Simonescu , finding the austerities of post-war London bad for business , had moved back to Paris at about the same time he , too , had returned , from Oxford . |
| 7 | He even dropped a hint that he had a conference in Perugia at about the same time and might very well find himself in Rome after it was over . |
| 8 | In Britain at about the same time another Gallup poll showed 30 per cent of the populace were in favour of giving up the British H-bomb . |
| 9 | The same idea occurred to Henry Fosbrooke in Tanganyika at about the same time . |
| 10 | They spread there from the area of the Aegean at about the same time as the Israelite tribes themselves moved into the land from the east . |
| 11 | Almost equally ambitious development projects were going on in Kenya at about the same time . |
| 12 | According to Hermann , working in the late eleventh century , this happened because Edmund 's popularity was increasing , and this tends to be confirmed by the entry of his feast-day in calendars produced in Winchester and Canterbury at about the same time , and by the inclusion of a special mass for him in a sacramentary probably written in Ely . |
| 13 | Interestingly , pine reached Skye at about the same time ( Birks and Williams , 1983 ) . |