Example sentences of "time it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It harked back to the world of the fourth- and fifth-century Christian emperors ; at the same time it signalled a new world of money-using economic agents including peasants and small-scale traders . |
2 | At the same time it afforded a public opportunity for emulation in what Veblen would have termed conspicuous waste . |
3 | At the same time it launched an ideological offensive launched to justify this approach to solving the crisis . |
4 | The church began in 1974 under the leadership of Roger Forster and grew to a congregation of 250 by 1980 , since which time it experienced a rapid growth to a 1985 membership of over 1000 people meeting in fifteen different congregations and by 1990 this growth reached over 1700 adult members , not including children , meeting in thirty-three different congregations . |
5 | She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter . |
6 | But it does not appear to have been regularly employed in the Royal Chancery until the last quarter of the ninth century , from which time it became a fixed element in diplomas . ’ |
7 | But in its time it represented a real advance . |
8 | It was an historic statute since for the first time it provided a statutory power for the banning of marches and processions of protest and demonstration . |