Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [conj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | a coincidence cos at the time I started taking them actually trying to spare my branch work in a bank . |
| 2 | He had applied for a grant but at the time Liverpool City Council was snowed under by applications . |
| 3 | It led to a period of sharp retrenchment and redundancies , a situation that at the time was very foreign to ICi which had been accustomed to unrestricted expansion in practically everything it undertook . |
| 4 | ‘ You do n't mind that I 'm an atheist ? ’ he 'd said with a frankness that at the time she 'd admired . |
| 5 | Now , the fact of a past service raises an implication that at the time it was rendered it was to be paid for , and , if it was a service which was to be paid for , when you get in the subsequent document a promise to pay , that promise may be treated either as an admission which evidences or as a positive bargain which fixes the amount of that reasonable remuneration on the faith of which the service was originally rendered . |