Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a time [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 2 | Freud may have been writing at a time of increasing urbanisation resulting from rapid industrialisation , but it is not at all clear that his work has any specifically ‘ urban ’ connotations . |
| 3 | In the Soviet Union popular support for the manned space programme was dwindling at a time of great economic hardship and political uncertainty for the majority of the population . |
| 4 | Coming at a time of deep economic recession , the drought has affected the whole economy of Australia . |
| 5 | His ‘ powerhouse for change ’ is both optimistic and courageous , coming at a time of unprecedented change and innovation in the NHS . |
| 6 | In September 1953 Curran became the BBC 's first internally selected administrative trainee , visiting or working for a time in different departments of the BBC in and out of London and assisting in the preparation of the BBC 's first personnel manual . |