Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun] of [art] time " in BNC.

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1 Even so , given the equipment of the time it was good going .
2 We will be asked why , given the evidence of the time , when EFTA and the east European countries were queueing up to join the tighter Community that was being proposed , we allowed ourselves to be left outside .
3 The marriage , too , had been a miscalculation , but given the circumstances of the time , an understandable one .
4 The state was independent of classes in determining how best to secure a social order given the circumstances of the time .
5 These articles were commentaries on world affairs and , given the events of the time , they often concerned the colonial activities of European powers , principally Britain .
6 Talk of Sebastian , but not the financial problem he had left Leith with , occupied the remainder of the time until they had finished their meal .
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