Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Mr Lawson has long been in favour of a stable exchange rate — and since industry has enthusiastically supported him , by expressing its enthusiasm for membership of the European Monetary System — it is ill-placed to argue against an increase in base rates at a time when sterling was threatening to fall below three marks , although the Confederation of British Industry has predictably grumbled that the rise was unnecessary . |
| 2 | His name does not appear in university records of the time , but in September 1775 he was ordained in London , and appointed to curacies first at Tideswell , and in the following year at Wirksworth , also in Derbyshire , but at double the stipend , £60 p.a . |
| 3 | A native of southern Europe and western Asia , costmary is now naturalized in Europe and North America , being introduced when it was detailed as an ingredient in cookery books of the time . |
| 4 | Employers therefore resorted to the reduction of costs , most particularly in wages , in order to compete in world markets at a time when it appeared that rising unemployment made their action possible without major conflict . |
| 5 | ‘ SO THE LUNATICS have taken charge of the asylum , ’ remarked Richard A. Rowland , president of Metro Pictures , on hearing of the formation of the United Artists Corporation in 1919 by D. W. Griffith , Charles Chaplin , Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks , the four biggest names in motion pictures at the time . |
| 6 | Here there were dormitories for four or six and just as in hospital wards of the time , the walls were painted a sombre grey . |
| 7 | The letters , however , show that the family was deeply involved in county affairs at a time of political turbulence , and on one occasion reveal the pride of John Paston in being a Norfolk man . |
| 8 | The Piper debts were paid in full , even although a severe fall in land values at the time caused his properties and other holdings to be sold for rock-bottom sums . |
| 9 | there is increased liberality in interpretation in several texts , but they can mostly be traced back to the increasing imperial intervention in trust cases from the time of Marcus Aurelius . |