Example sentences of "but at [adj] time [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saint-Savin today is small , even for a village , but at one time it was the centre of power in this valley . |
| 2 | But at that time he was fully occupied with BAT . |
| 3 | Today there 's not much of a problem , but at that time it was a little more troublesome and there was nobody doing anything about it . |
| 4 | But at that time it was n't what you 'd call modern in so far as you had n't got hot water from a sort of gas fir Electric heating . |
| 5 | In fact a lot was happening in my world , but at that time I was n't at all aware of it . |
| 6 | In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the undoubted paranoia of the fanatical adherent of solar monotheism in ancient Egypt , the Pharaoh Akhenaten ( alias Amenhotep IV ) , but at that time I was unable to demonstrate how such paranoid tendencies were related to the evolution of cultivating societies . |