Example sentences of "about the same time [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about the same time that they unveiled portable CD-I , Sony also launched a text-only counterpart known as the Data Discman . |
| 2 | patients recover from their depression at about the same time that their body clock , as measured by the melatonin rhythm , adjusts its phase to match the sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 3 | And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
| 6 | Cnut had a church built at the site of the battle , and it was consecrated in 1020 , at about the same time that he allowed the replacement of clerics by monks in St Edmund 's church at Bury . |
| 7 | Luckily , that was about the same time that my mother and father bought me a radio , and all my other interests just disappeared once I had that … |
| 8 | I mean he started at roughly about the same time as me . |
| 9 | Anne took delivery of the £93,000 Blue Doublet in April , about the same time as her divorce from Captain Mark Phillips . |
| 10 | About the same time as us ? |
| 11 | It probably gets dark about the same time as it does here . |
| 12 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 13 | At about the same time as he issued his threat of deposition to all the abbots of Normandy , he ordered Anselm to send him his Monologion and Proslogion , perhaps initially for censure , and it may have been through Hugh that Gregory VII knew Anselm 's works . |
| 14 | He must have been working on the paper about the same time as he was writing the papers of Totem and Taboo , or just afterwards . |
| 15 | It was Richard Bulwer who built the present Wood Dalling Hall in 1582 , at about the same time as his neighbour Henry Dynne was building the much larger Heydon Hall . |
| 16 | He needed no reminder that it was his own union which had prospered in many British ports while Tillett 's Tea Operatives ' Union established in July 1887 at about the same time as his own had failed even to develop any wider organization in the Port of London itself . |
| 17 | A group of people who entered some state at about the same time and whose life histories are thereafter studied is called a cohort . |