Example sentences of "it was [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about the only time Ken opened up about his feelings about living in Farley Court by himself . |
| 2 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 3 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
| 4 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
| 5 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
| 6 | While JCI diversified its interests in South Africa , it was at the same time increasing its shareholding in Johnson Matthey in the UK . |
| 7 | But when I actually erm got into the social work side of it , and i saw what the needs there were , erm and it was at the particular time too when you know , lots of teachers were sort of being made redundant , or at at least the er the numbers in schools were n't so high . |
| 8 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
| 9 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 10 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 11 | In 1888 it was for the first time possible to go by train the whole way from Constantinople to Calais , and the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1904 . |
| 12 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
| 13 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 14 | I saw it happen with Jaco Pastorius — I know what it was like the first time I heard him . |
| 15 | It was like the first time she 'd seen him , just after Peter had introduced her as his fiancée . |
| 16 | It was like the other time . |
| 17 | It was 1852 before freight receipts exceeded passenger receipts and it was around the same time that the railways overtook the canals to become the principal freight carriers . |