Example sentences of "or [adv] [prep] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hermes Trismegistus emerged from Egypt more or less at the time in which Zoroaster and the Magi became respected figures among the Greeks : they will have to be considered together . |
| 2 | That meant within an hour or so of the time at which Mary Penrose claimed that Riddle had left her . |
| 3 | Germany and Spain were eventually to become major producers of armour : within a century or so of the time of Barbarossa some of the most famous makers of armour were German , while Cologne became renowned for its swords . |
| 4 | This does not preclude the possibility that genes are normally transcribed at or shortly after the time of induction but exert their effects at later times . |
| 5 | All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death . |
| 6 | Multiple ulcers ( two or more at the time of diagnosis ) ; |
| 7 | The persons transferred automatically to the purchaser are all persons employed within the business being sold at or immediately before the time of sale whose contracts would otherwise ( at common law ) have been terminated by the sale . |
| 8 | Before the endoscopic era , the diagnosis was rarely made before operation or even at the time of operation and recurrent haemorrhage with a fatal outcome was common . |