Example sentences of "[noun] about the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to have originated in the personal computer segment about the time Compaq proved it could supply 286 machines that were comparable to IBM 's … and do so in a more timely fashion . |
| 2 | There were proposals about the time of Nationalisation , when the Regional Boundaries were being drawn up . |
| 3 | I 'm reminded of the story about the time when a British Rail advertising contract was up for grabs . |
| 4 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 5 | ‘ There was a lot of talk about the time when she and Kate — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Most days , poor man , an ’ talk about the time he was a boy . |
| 7 | We are seeking God 's guidance about the time to go to Caux . |
| 8 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 9 | ‘ — that she 's got amnesia about the time when she nearly drowned , ’ Edward said . |
| 10 | Arthur and Helena Naulls had had their Golden Wedding party in November about the time of Stephen 's own twenty-first birthday . |
| 11 | My fifth question arises from a conversation that I had yesterday with Tony Godden , the head of the West Lothian college , who has severe reservations about the time scale leading to incorporation and how colleges like his — Bathgate and Livingston — can undertake the services previously carried out by the regional council . |
| 12 | I chose to end the period about the time when the role of the Railway was beginning to be superseded by buses , lorries and private cars . |
| 13 | They concern fine judgements about the time spent in the non-reproductive phase versus time spent in collaborative reproduction and they also concern subtle choices of companion at all times . |
| 14 | At one level , June Braithwaite attacked Robert about the time he spent away from home and what he did and did not do for the children . |
| 15 | Garrett mixes gin and tonics and ribs Sam about the time he mired his boat on the rock island at the foot of the rapid . |
| 16 | " Possibly — though if the medical evidence about the time of death is right it 's hard to see how he could have got to where he was in the time . |
| 17 | Notice that periodic waves that are even functions of time , that is , symmetric about the time origin , can be represented by a constant and just cosine waves , while waves that are odd functions of time , that is , reversed in sign about the time origin , can be represented by just sine waves . |
| 18 | He was made aware of his impending appointment about the time of Hunt 's report , but it was not until 1st January , 1859 that he was sent his official letter of appointment . |
| 19 | Quinn avoided the lift-shaft and hit the stairs about the time McCrea 's first shout came through the door , followed by a hefty kick at the lock . |
| 20 | ‘ The police have checked your tale about the time Connie disappeared ? ’ |
| 21 | He did n't tell long stories like Patsy did , or wistful tales like Dekko Moore about the time he made harnesses for the Lords of the Soil somewhere down in Meath . |
| 22 | In the instant case the IT were entitled to find that it was not reasonably practicable for Mr Sen to have presented his unfair dismissal claim in time , notwithstanding that he had been given erroneous advice about the time limit by a solicitor in circumstances where he had also been wrongly advised as to the time limit by a member of the IT staff . |
| 23 | The document said the Government was aware of concern about the time taken to complete assessments and that admitted unnecessary delays caused ‘ undue anxiety ’ to parents . |
| 24 | Moreover , unlike most medieval letter writers — and , for that matter , even unlike most of us today when we dash off our epistles without much thought about the time — Petrarch ‘ spells out the dates ( including the hour ) with weight and deliberation , as if to stress the importance of taking one 's bearings in time ’ . |
| 25 | Would their children talk with similar nostalgia about the time their dads led ‘ the North Bank on a charge against the Chelsea ‘ Shed ’ ? ss Sport presents a problem for such youths . |
| 26 | All this gave strong grounds for believing that the body had been put into the sea near the house on stilts about the time of high water on Friday night . |
| 27 | But the legal tangle surrounding ‘ culpability ’ was never really unravelled : no eye-witnesses , contradictory evidence on possible mechanical faults , discrepancies about the time recorded for the breathalyser test — these factors resulted in Kemp getting away comparatively lightly , being banned from driving for three years only , with what must have seemed to many the derisory fine of only four hundred pounds . |
| 28 | It was not a fun place any more and doors were already slamming shut to the hundreds of young hopefuls hanging around outside the studio gates about the time when Nicholson began his search for work . |
| 29 | He 'd begun to tell her an anecdote about the time he 'd been trying out some play in Brighton when he 'd very nearly missed the curtain because he 'd accidentally locked himself in his hotel-room , and how if it had n't been for his wife — ; realising his blunder he broke off and wanted to know if she minded his being married . |
| 30 | Can I just ask one thing , a another thing about the time you were living in , erm did you as a woman know anything about contraception ? |