Example sentences of "and at the time [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nationhood is a relatively modern , mainly European , and at the time of its inception , revolutionary invention . |
| 2 | It seems to have formed through the successive accretion of continental and island arc fragments ( see Section 3.6 ) from then until the middle Cretaceous and at the time of its collision with the Indian Plate it was probably an area of relatively warm and weak lithosphere . |
| 3 | More recently , he relocated the Schools Canteen from dingy basement to gleaming mezzanine and at the time of his death had nearly completed his greatest coup . |
| 4 | Manley was aware that the high cost of modern anaesthetic apparatus was often prohibitive for hospitals in developing countries , and at the time of his death he was working on a prototype of an inexpensive , but effective ventilator for the Third World . |
| 5 | Traditional Clan MacLeod lands included Harris and parts of Lewis , and at the time of his visit to St. Kilda in 1695 , the MacLeods of Skye held the title to that isolated archipelago ( Cooper , 1970 & op. cit . ) . |
| 6 | Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 . |
| 7 | Abraham was an early member of the BDDA , and at the time of his attack on the leadership he was Superintendent of the Bolton , Bury and Rochdale Society . |