Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whether or not they objected at the time of the planning application we ca n't say . ’ |
| 2 | Until then , its leaders continued to reflect the ascendancy they enjoyed at the time of the 1945 Potsdam conference . |
| 3 | The plaintiffs owned property in Egypt which they lost at the time of the Suez crisis in 1956 . |
| 4 | Nearly three years after the murder , Mr and Mrs Macaulay still share the same sense of outrage and defiance against the IRA which they felt at the time of the killings . |
| 5 | As a middle-aged bishop he was reluctant to believe that miracles still happened in his world as they had in the time of the Lord and his apostles . |