Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [prep] this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubtless the adverts produced at this time of year have been successful in getting the message home . |
| 2 | But three of the poems which follow were published in 1807 — Alice Fell , Stepping Westward and Elegiac Stanzas — and when we consider that the major part of The Prelude dates from this time there seems no reason to challenge the usual critical dictum that this was Wordsworth 's major creative period . |
| 3 | The work done at this time did , however , serve to educate the permanent officials in the new approach to economic policy . |
| 4 | Reports from the clergy in some of the affected dioceses show that they were perplexed by the variety and number of the movements emerging at this time . |
| 5 | Obviously Wordsworth thought that his poems would have some positive effect in this direction ; it becomes clearer why so many of the poems written at this time deal with ‘ domestic affections ’ , and in particular with the separation of mother and child . |
| 6 | This was a time of very rapid warming at the end of a little ice age and if we can understand how the climate changed at this time , we 're much better able to predict future climatic perturbations as the earth warms up due to the addition of greenhouse gases . |
| 7 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 8 | The wheezing noise of the bellows had by this time excited the interest of some sentries on a large freighter moored nearby , but Maclean shouted out that they should mind their own business . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal , overruling the High Court judge , granted the injunction on the ground that in ‘ the balance of convenience ’ the wish to strike at this time was more than counterbalanced by the financial loss to the employers and the inconvenience to the public . |
| 10 | The Principal had by this time become almost as fluorescent as the neon sign outside his academy , and we eyeballed one another in a spirit entirely lacking in camaraderie . |
| 11 | You know the tears came at this time |
| 12 | The carving had by this time become careless and clumsy . |
| 13 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 14 | The papacy had by this time lost most of its former immense temporal power . |