Example sentences of "[det] [noun] at [art] time [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He and Mother must have thought a great deal of the place to go to that expense at a time when money was so short .
2 Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too .
3 It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest .
4 How could the undiluted works of Kautsky and Engels appeal to this audience at a time when even party members at lower levels rarely understood the meaning of such concrete words as ‘ official ’ , ‘ categorical ’ , ‘ Plenum ’ , ‘ memorandum ’ , or ‘ territory ’ ?
5 ‘ I 'm just sorry that he 's had this problem at a time when he would surely have had the chance to establish himself in the England side .
6 Dried fruit , such as sultanas , and finely grated hard cheese can save these birds at a time when they are unable to find their usual insect food .
7 Kohl hopes that the council will become a way to revive these links at a time when Europe is very much looking inwards .
8 In addition , the pattern of cleavage is both highly ordered and complex and there are fewer cells at the time when gastrulation begins .
9 The Land Campaign , or so it seemed to the Conservatives , threatened to wipe out those gains at a time when the party showed no signs of an electoral recovery elsewhere .
10 Yesterday mystery still surrounded Bardot 's overdose with many people asking why the screen legend should try to take her own life at a time when she seemed to have found happiness with her new husband .
11 For those who like to fly several kites at a time on tethers , they suggest a simple addition to the standard Goat or Dog corkscrew which provides a cleat to lock the line and winch or reel when sufficient line is paid out .
12 If Let Us Compare Mytholoqies marks the awakening of his poetic consciousness when the city of Montreal ( and all that was in it , not excluding its female charms ) ‘ began to jump at me , ’ The Spice-Box Of Earth marks the heightening of his Jewish consciousness which he encountered in young adulthood , as a free agent abroad in the world , having to establish his own identity at a time when his own Tradition , and his position in it , began likewise to jump at him .
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