Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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31 | However they decided the case on another basis and Pearson LJ said " it may be said in answer to the possibility of such a reductio ad absurdum , though no doubt , it has to be taken into account , is far from conclusive , because it may involve unlikely hypotheses , which would be outside the reasonable expectations of the parties at the time of the making of the contract of employment " . |
32 | While there were periods of internal stress , notably the emergence of the various racial , Irish , and student troubles of the late sixties , and the concern over the alleged ‘ ungovernability ’ of the unions at the time of the ‘ winter of discontent ’ in the late seventies , Britain was a relatively stable society internally throughout these forty-four years . |