Example sentences of "at about the [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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1 | patients recover from their depression at about the same time that their body clock , as measured by the melatonin rhythm , adjusts its phase to match the sleep/wake rhythm . |
2 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
3 | At about the same time that this happened , Bourn became part of 8 Group , the Pathfinder Group . |
4 | And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster . |
5 | Indeed , at about the same time that Sony were launching the Data Discman in Tokyo , they were already previewing in London a similar handheld player which runs Compact Disc Interactive ( CD-I ) , a CD information format designed specifically for multimedia . |
6 | At about the same time that Domesday was launched , the Department of Trade and Industry funded a £2 million interactive video project called Interactive Video in Schools ( IVIS ) . |
7 | At about the same time that they unveiled portable CD-I , Sony also launched a text-only counterpart known as the Data Discman . |
8 | It may have been at about the same time that monks were installed in the church of St Edmund at Bury . |
9 | Cnut had a church built at the site of the battle , and it was consecrated in 1020 , at about the same time that he allowed the replacement of clerics by monks in St Edmund 's church at Bury . |
10 | It happened that he decided to go back and found himself commanding a squadron on operations at about the same time that Salmon and Gluxstein as we called the two German battle wagons , decided to leave Brest , head up through the Channel and escape the wrath of the Navy and whatever airborne effort we could produce in the teeth of extraordinarily adverse weather conditions at the time . |
11 | Down below , thieves , assassins , trolls and merchants all realised at about the same moment that they were in a room made treacherous of foothold by gold coins and containing something , among the suddenly menacing shapes in the semi-darkness , that was absolutely horrible . |