Example sentences of "about the [adj] time [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian 's group arrived in Iraq about the same time as a team of 13 inspectors , which had been due to leave the country yesterday , announced it was staying on . |
| 2 | They spread there from the area of the Aegean at about the same time as the Israelite tribes themselves moved into the land from the east . |
| 3 | Near the shore , old raised-beach deposits can be observed throughout the region , representing changes in sea levels at about the same time as the glacial episode . |
| 4 | At or about the same time as the 2D was announced , Philips unveiled the PL lamp . |
| 5 | Violet saw her mistake about the same time as the card . |
| 6 | Brasher Boots arrived about the same time as the K-SB3 , but were developed from the running shoe . |
| 7 | Apple Computer Inc 's second batch of Newtons will be notebook-sized versions of the device which it expects to ship at about the same time as the small first model , according to MacWeek : the notebook will have a landscape-mode screen with a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels ; the notepad , in contrast , has a small portrait-mode screen ; Apple will also deliver its first PCMCIA slot in the Newton this summer , but a slot for the PowerBook laptops may be further away . |
| 8 | In Britain , this began to happen at about the same time as the emergence of positivist criminology — though , again , this is not to suggest any simple causal relation , in either direction ( see Garland , 1985b ) . |
| 9 | At about the same time as the State Department was receiving this cable from their most senior man on the spot , Secretary of State Byrnes was cabling the Paris embassy that the French were planning to reconquer Tonkin and might set up a puppet government ; while in Hanoi the French commander , General Morlière , was claiming that the US and Chinese consuls had denounced the ‘ criminal and bestial folly ’ of the Vietminh ; although apparently they had n't said a word one way or the other . |
| 10 | At about the same time as The School Curriculum was being prepared by the DES , the now defunct Schools Council was preparing its own document . |
| 11 | Within a few weeks of his arrival , we had shown that , half an hour after training ( that is , about the same time as the changes in membrane phosphorylation ) , there is a dramatic increase in the expression of c-fos and c-jun proteins in cells of the IMHV . |
| 12 | And in the same square stood the parish church of Santa Croce , built at about the same time as the castle . |
| 13 | Breaking the three-generational run of Lester Knox Colemans , his sons , Joshua and Chad , were born on 16 September 1989 , at about the same time as the DIA decided to dust him off for his next assignment . |
| 14 | And as I say as I say I do n't ken how long it had been there but that see that likely about the same time as the as the mill was heightened and er the kiln would 've been putting on . |
| 15 | But so about the same time as the mill was heightened , I think that th land was drained . |
| 16 | Er , we have been in er organising these new seats , about the same time as the Labour government took in nineteen seventy eight , er I said that when I intervened upon him and I say it again it 's worth paying on the records , exactly the same pressures have been on us as were as on them . |