Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Netherlands , however , it appears that for much of the past 30 years , a substantial reduction in levels of imprisonment occurred with no greater rise in crime than occurred in Britain ; and that reduction occurred at a time of rising crime in Holland . |
| 2 | Vaquero offers the city-bound reader a few minutes to escape to a time and place that we are losing ’ . |
| 3 | This ritual comes from a time when the apple was recognized as a gift from something greater than ourselves — though by then she was only a minor goddess . |
| 4 | This uncertainty comes at a time when the housing needs of all elderly people are increasing and there is a clear need for more good low-cost rented accommodation . |
| 5 | Secondly , I know that this committee has over a time been concerned about the resource needs |
| 6 | Alas , this knowledge comes at a time when it is virtually the eleventh hour for the tiger . |
| 7 | For Perez de Cuellar , this incident came at a time when he was still closely involved with other business , notably engineering the release of hostages held in Lebanon and Israel . |
| 8 | This letter belonged to a time long before he became archbishop , but promotion did not change his mind . |
| 9 | The disappointing results of this survey come at a time when the second WHO review of its Health for All policy concludes that ‘ the implementation of strategies to achieve those aims has in many cases slowed down ’ . |
| 10 | In opposition , and to some extent isolated at a time of political consensus , Conservative educators like Professor Brian Cox and Dr Rhodes Boyson attracted considerable press attention through the publication of a series of ‘ Black Papers on Education ’ . |
| 11 | For she and the other natives of these isles lived at a time before sin , it seemed to him , a happy time , but inferior in intelligence and humanity to the enlightened ideals of his kind . |
| 12 | Allowed to choose for themselves under feral conditions , nearly all offspring arrive at a time when nutritional inputs to the dam are rising to a maximum , ie optimum grass growth . |
| 13 | Whether that contract or those contracts consisted of a time charter , a voyage charter or one or more bills of lading contracts or some or all of such contracts would have been immaterial to the defendants . |