Example sentences of "was [prep] [adj] time [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beer was at that time customarily garnished with a slice of lemon . |
| 2 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 3 | Their work bears witness both to the power of partnership and to the powers of expression which we feel able to attribute to groups , to some circle of friends or literary ‘ school ’ — in this case , the group which was at one time drunkenly designated the scholarship boys , angry young men or hypergamists of the Fifties . |
| 4 | Among other signs of this is a lecture on Byron for the Germania and , during the same period , a remarkable " letter to a friend " in praise of Hölderlin , who was at this time little read Concomitantly , he felt great enthusiasm for Shakespeare , long since appropriated by the German Romantics as an honorary ancestor . |
| 5 | He was at this time already suffering from an ailment from which he and his friends would suffer until the end of his life — piles . |