Example sentences of "understood [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will trawl back in their minds for comments and clues that , if they had been understood at the time , might have enabled them to be more helpful . |
| 2 | The gaunt picture on the back tells a story that few understood at the time : Marley was being eaten by cancer . |
| 3 | These price and cost interrelations were not well and explicitly understood at the time , and it is perhaps anachronistic to criticise the industry for not adopting them . |
| 4 | However , this was not how matters were understood at the time . |
| 5 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |