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

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1 This rude awakening was , however , still a few years away at the time when Dustin joined .
2 The Movement increased its membership from 5,000 in 1929 to 40,000 two years later at a time when the Communist Party was at its lowest ebb .
3 Counting those in the bristle-cone pine establishes that some of these gnarled and twisted trees germinated over five thousand years ago at a time when man in the Middle East was just beginning to invent writing , and have remained alive throughout the entire duration of civilisation .
4 Modern human fossils 100000 years old are known and humans were widespread in southern Africa by 50 000 years ago at a time when Europe was still populated by the related Neanderthals .
5 He became a protector of the species four years ago at a time when badger baiting had reached alarming proportions .
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