Example sentences of "bear [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these rebellions , the main grievances voiced were fiscal , although it is not certain how far the taxation itself was the real cause of discontent and how far merely the last straw which could not be borne in a time when land was becoming scarce and real wages were in decline [ A.1 ] . |
| 2 | Most of the current generation of older people were born at a time when the motor car was an unusual sight on the streets , aeroplanes were rarely seen in the skies , telephones were rare , radio and television were many years from invention . |
| 3 | He was born at a time when the great majority of musicians were employed by patrons — wealthy aristocrats , monarchs , or prelates — or as civic musicians working for a town council . |
| 4 | Only one or two young are born at a time and they are transported in an unusual manner by the mother — by hanging on to her greatly elongated teats . |
| 5 | Only a single kid is born at a time ; twins are extremely rare . |
| 6 | Having achieved a degree of fertility , the calves will then be born at a time of reduction in nutritional inputs , and also at the outset of a housing period with all its attendant disease factors . |