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

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1 It was too early in the negotiating round at the time of writing to be confident about trends for the coming year , although most expectations for the 1–10MW bracket are that the new deals will merely take account of inflation .
2 In the U.S.A. even at the time of President Lincoln about 1860 there was serious debate as to whether the economy should remain agricultural or whether there should be a positive attempt to develop manufacturing .
3 Two men , possibly with Liverpool accents , are believed to have bought the weapons locally at the time the couple disappeared .
4 The joke around at the time was that it would be filmed with a hand-held camera .
5 Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment .
6 Tatarinov argued that all ministries and other governmental institutions should be obliged to produce detailed estimates for the year ahead at the time they submitted their annual accounts .
7 They claim that he became the Messiah only at the time of his baptism — that is , his anointment or coronation .
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