Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at the same time " in BNC.
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| 1 | China , if the one-child policy continues to be pursued successfully at the same time that life expectancy is being extended , looks set for an extraordinarily rapid transition to being the oldest society ever known — an apparently unforeseen consequence of her birth-rate policy , according to work being carried out by James Smith and Peter Laslett at the Rank Xerox Unit for the Study of Ageing , University of Cambridge . |
| 2 | ‘ Green in the snow ’ is a hot , hardy mustard , sown outdoors at the same time . |
| 3 | If all members of the human race had arrived roughly at the same time at the point when the need for a ‘ god ’ had started to influence human behaviour , it may well have been that the existence of a disastrous diversity of ‘ gods ’ , all of whom according to their worshippers conferred privileges , would never have become established . |
| 4 | Auguste had added the course in the interests of the Prince of Wales ; it was to be served virtually at the same time as the entrée , in defiance of the rules , in the hope it would attract less attention . |
| 5 | I showed that instead the symmetry would have broken everywhere at the same time , rather than just inside bubbles . |
| 6 | It was the sort you sit up in , and there were two other people being taken home at the same time , so we did n't go straight to Fulham but did a detour through Kensington . |
| 7 | Laura , a far more quiet and serious character than her cousin , had left home at the same time for Cambridge University , to read economics . |