Example sentences of "at the [noun] of [det] time " in BNC.

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1 This facility ‘ for burying an emotion in my heart or brain for forty years , and exhuming it at the end of that time as fresh as when interred ’ , as he described it , lies behind many of his most successful lyrics .
2 At the end of that time , each one of them had experienced unpleasant symptoms ; some became hostile and argumentative ; some had panic attacks and nightmares ; all of them found their attention span had grown shorter and they were finding it more difficult to remember things .
3 At the end of that time , working ceaselessly , he had been through every file in every office .
4 ‘ What would you do at the end of that time ? ’
5 In spite of this , Mahan wrote ‘ For twenty-two months Nelson 's fleet never went into port , at the end of that time , when the need arose to pursue an enemy for four thousand miles , it was found massed and in all respects perfectly prepared for so sudden and so distant a call . ’
6 At the end of that time ‘ he qualified himself for practising whether as a physician or a surgeon ’ , and returned to Bedfordshire where , ‘ with the consent of the Clergy and the local practitioners , he attended the destitute poor ’ .
7 That may be so ; but on the other hand , if the plaintiff 's contention is correct , the solicitor may abstain from delivering his bill for 20 years , and then at the end of that time he may deliver it and sue after the expiration of a month from its delivery .
8 At the end of that time they again expressed doubts as to their liability to pay and for the next three years paid under protest .
9 At the end of that time he came back again .
10 At the end of that time she had learned that Amy was married to an Anglican priest and felt herself trapped and manipulated in a relationship in which she was the inferior partner .
11 At the end of that time the conscientious manager may well find it difficult to credit the evidence .
12 Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant .
13 The intention was that , at the end of that time , the club would be Scottish champions .
14 At the end of this time Parliament would make a permanent religious settlement in consultation with a committee of divines who would represent various views .
15 At the end of this time , worn-down and aged far beyond her years , she meets the woman who lent her the necklace .
16 The employer may have a problem if the employee has not managed to sell the old property at the end of this time .
17 At the end of this time , the character will attack his fellow .
18 At the end of this time the rotor has moved forward to a position where the motor is producing negative torque .
19 Troops were deployed and a curfew imposed as the unrest continued into the third day ; at the end of this time 26 people were reported dead and over 500 had been arrested .
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