Example sentences of "in the [noun prp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many influential Englishmen had seen the magnificent accommodation that Napoleon III was providing for his bureaucracy in the New Louvre and the new architecture that was arising in the Paris of the time . |
| 2 | ‘ L'Etat c'est moi ’ was a shrewd remark , but can hardly have been intended as a definition even in the France of the time . |
| 3 | However , Sir John Cockroft was in the USA at the time , did not attend the lecture and so was unable to get at first hand insights into what the Soviets had , and had not , done . |
| 4 | Failure to comply with the Act — which only covers agreements entered into under UK law or where one or both parties are in the UK at the time — can result in fines of up to £5,000 on summary conviction . |
| 5 | ‘ I was in the UK at the time , ’ Maxim reassured him . |
| 6 | He sees growth — about 25% year on year , he reckons — coming mainly from ‘ small add-on acquisitions ’ , but only in the UK for the time being . |
| 7 | Nursing audit was already well-developed in the NHS by the time WFP was published , reflecting the prominent position nurses have taken in promoting quality assurance generally ( Dalley and Carr-Hill 1991 ) . |
| 8 | Comparing the present offering to Antenor 's French furniture collection ( sold at Sotheby 's New York in 1986 for a total of over $8 million , a record for a single-owner sale of French furniture in the U.S. at the time ) , Millerand points out , ‘ Antenor Patiño made a number of gifts of French furniture to the Louvre and to Versailles , as well as to the museum in Lisbon . |
| 9 | A former French translator for President Kim Il Sung , he was first secretary in the Congo at the time of his defection , and was welcomed by South Korea because of his position in the North Korean hierarchy . |
| 10 | Trevor was working in the States at the time of this interview . |