Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] the same time " in BNC.
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1 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
2 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
3 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
4 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
5 | While JCI diversified its interests in South Africa , it was at the same time increasing its shareholding in Johnson Matthey in the UK . |
6 | It was 1852 before freight receipts exceeded passenger receipts and it was around the same time that the railways overtook the canals to become the principal freight carriers . |