Example sentences of "at [adv] [prep] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 What Marx was trying to do in constructing the Asiatic system was to reconcile , on the one hand the reports of the strength of the village communities which characterized many of the accounts of Asian villages and which was manifested in their apparent ability to act organically , for example in the close co-operation and mutual reasonableness required in irrigated agriculture , and , on the other hand , a traditional view of the despotism of oriental rulers , a view which dominated European pictures of the Orient , at least since the time of Montesquieu .
2 The last mill these waters powered was Awre Corn Mill , an old site in use at least since the time of the Domesday Survey , having reputedly belonged to Edward the Confessor .
3 Credit Data told us that their policy was that only information about people under the same name should be passed where there was any possibility of multiple occupancy at a given address , but we felt that at least at the time of our visit this policy might not be clearly understood by the operators themselves , who might give information about people with other names at the given address , too .
4 The wish to discern a framework for the Earth itself is something which dates back at least to the time of Ptolemy .
5 Evidence of Dalmatians ( whom the Italians called Schiavone or Slavs ) working in Italy goes back at least to the time of Radovan .
6 In the meantime , despite the massive run-down in the number of students on teacher-training courses , overall numbers in higher education in the public sector have grown steadily , at least until the time of writing .
7 Early medieval monasticism was largely based on the Rule of St Benedict , at least from the time of St Boniface onwards , but with the liturgical side of the Rule greatly elaborated .
8 No details are known of the conversion of Wulfhere but he reigned as a Christian king with a succession of bishops — Trumhere , Jaruman , Chad and Wynfrith — with their seat , at least from the time of Chad , at Lichfield ( HE 111 , 24 : IV , 3 ) .
9 I , I do n't know the answer to that offhand , but it 's , I 'm inclined to think that erm at least by the time of the Republic there are things that some people are more naturally predisposed towards philosophy and other people are less naturally predisposed towards philosophy .
10 The action lacked that forceful superiority which had characterized Carolingian capitularies , at least in the time of Charlemagne ; but it revived the tradition whereby the crown was seen as the author of society 's moral norms .
11 A corollary is the absence of any comment on the substitution of Latin for Greek as the leading cultural language in the rest of Italy and on the diffusion of Latin in the western provinces — which at least in the time of Posidonius must have been evident .
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