Example sentences of "[noun prp] at [adv] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curiously , this branch of crime fiction appears to have sprung up independently on either side of the Atlantic at much the same time . |
| 2 | The first flight was scheduled for the last week in January , and as luck would have it there was a wild prairie blizzard blowing across western Canada at just the wrong time . |
| 3 | Jacob saw Seb at almost the same time . |
| 4 | ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’ |
| 5 | Similar competition multiplied the areas receiving urban programme funding in Britain at roughly the same time . |
| 6 | When Quakers lost at Plainmoor at roughly the same time last season , there was still plenty of encouragement in the performance and they recovered to win the Fourth Division . |
| 7 | In truth what really shaped his view was the comparison between Mayo 's film and Fury , which was released by MGM at much the same time . |
| 8 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 9 | To take one example out of many , the native Englishman D. H. Lawrence reached just the same conclusion as Pound at just the same time , and Lawrence 's letters record it ; he concluded , just as Pound did , that England after the First World War was , for the artist , uninhabitable . |