Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meantime , what better case could there be for staging the Germany game at a time of fixture congestion than the fact that 10,000 youngsters , who watched the tie against Malta free of charge , have paid £1 a head to return to Ibrox on Wednesday . |
| 2 | It is perhaps ironic that Neal — so critical of the selections of Revie and Robson — arrives back on the England scene at a time when Taylor is coming in for internal FA criticism for picking too many players . |
| 3 | Determined to honour the family tradition of social responsibility , she forgot her various ailments , put aside her various unfinished manuscripts , and took on the onerous commitment of managing one of the most important zinc factories in the United Kingdom at a time when women were virtually excluded from the boardrooms of business and commerce . |
| 4 | The short-cuts provided in weapon development were to lead to a paring of independence , stunting of British research and development capacity , and a strengthening of the anchor cables holding Britain in her position as an offshore island of the United States at a time when closer relations with Europe were becoming more compelling . |
| 5 | Stephen Ormerod , Stephanie Tyler and others from the RSPB and University of Wales have shown that dippers declined 80–90 per cent on the River Irfon at a time of acidification and afforestation . |