Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | No similar conditions existed in Britain at the time of this study . |
| 2 | In a typically British way , we have failed to take the credit that is due to us for that achievement , which had its origins in the Kangaroo group of Members of the European Parliament founded by the late Basil de Ferranti specifically to break down the trade barriers that existed in Europe at a time when none of the other major Community partners wanted to know anything about it . |
| 3 | One Windscale worker who lived in Seascale at the time said he recorded radioactive contamination on his son 's shoes which was almost six times the level used to signify a hazard inside his laboratory . |
| 4 | and the other one , I do n't know whether you knew him , I think he lived in Earlsome for a time did n't he ? |
| 5 | We take chain mail very much for granted , seeing it depicted in paintings of the time , or in recent cinematic extravaganzas . |
| 6 | They watched in silence for a time . |
| 7 | There entered her mind a memory of the feast day of the Madonna della Bruna ; it fell in July in the time of the fierce lion sun , as they called it in the hills , and yet the shrine attracted crowds from all Ninfania and all around . |
| 8 | The name is believed to be derived from a personal name Sighel or Signup , and the second part from the thorn bushes which grew in abundance at the time , and dates possibly from the 7th century . |
| 9 | He embarked soon after on his long verse-tragedy Osorio , a story ‘ romantic & wild & somewhat terrible ’ , which he set in Spain at the time of the Inquisition , but which was to draw , at least to a small extent , on his Quantock and Exmoor wanderings of the next few months . |