Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 Knitting was a painful business for me , but it was absorbing , and I 'd lost track of the time when I heard crashing footsteps approaching and a determined bang on the door .
2 If all these subjects had had endometriosis at the time of removal the rate in current and recent users would rise to 0.42 per 1000 woman years ( from 0.22 ) and the relative risk would be non-significant at 0.7 ( from 0.4 ) .
3 The victim had become owner at the time of the deception .
4 The 67 children who had reached maturity at the time of this study tended to have been diagnosed earlier in the decade than those still growing .
5 Despite the high prevalence of growth impairment , the subset of childen who had reached maturity by the time of the study ( n=67 ) nevertheless maintained their height centile .
6 This report is about 174 children ≤4 years of age with idiopathic chronic constipation who were 6 years and older and had entered school at the time of follow up in May 1991 .
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