Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | In Britain at about the same time another Gallup poll showed 30 per cent of the populace were in favour of giving up the British H-bomb . |
| 34 | A constituency operation in south-east London was begun at about the same time . |
| 35 | At about the same time the barons of Bedfordshire paid £200 ‘ for the disafforestment of that part of Bedfordshire which Henry I first afforested ’ — a definition which was to be the subject of future contention . |
| 36 | On 27 June the Attorney-General sent to Buckingham warrants for the sale of Neroche , Selwood and Feckenham Forests , and the disafforestment of Braydon was begun at about the same time . |
| 37 | The great Morrissey is currently putting the finishing touches to his new solo album , and a single engagingly entitled We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful will be in the stores about the same time as Johnny Rogan 's book . |
| 38 | About the same time , V SS Mountain Corps carried out an offensive in the Sarajevo area . |
| 39 | Chris Patten had recruited them both at about the same time . |
| 40 | About the same time as this incident , when he was fifteen , Richard Baxter experienced a spiritual awakening . |
| 41 | At about the same time , the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the City of London decided to hold a Day of Solemn Thanksgiving to God for General Monk 's success , and they requested Richard Baxter to preach in St. Paul 's . |
| 42 | Walpole House , which had been erected in the sixteenth century , was altered with a new front elevation , in 1730 , and at about the same time two other houses were knocked into one to become Strawberry House . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Interestingly , pine reached Skye at about the same time ( Birks and Williams , 1983 ) . |
| 45 | At about the same time , a number of serious accidents occurred . |
| 46 | At about the same time , the now elevated Lord Marshall , Chairman of the CEGB , was featured in a BBC television documentary about the future of nuclear power . |
| 47 | The remains include a section of the first church , of St Tecla , but are chiefly of a baptistery built about the same time . |
| 48 | Several other groups , including some psychiatrists , began to investigate the drug chlorpromazine about the same time . |
| 49 | At about the same time , the alkaloid reserpine , extracted from the Indian plant Rauwolfia serpentina , was attracting interest for the treatment of high blood pressure ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 50 | CND and judicial review At about the same time that legislation was introduced to tackle the problems raised by the Malone decision , the Massiter revelations led to a second attempt to challenge the pre-1985 procedures in the domestic courts , this time on different grounds from those which had failed before Sir Robert Megarry . |
| 51 | Hanns , although not in the company , was one of John 's group once he arrived in Britain about the same time , and another of the dancers , Peter Darrell ( who also became , in time , a choreographer and ballet director ) was closely involved with them , although he was English . |
| 52 | It was much more elaborate than the first of the famous series of astronomical clocks in Strasbourg Cathedral that was installed about the same time , 1350 . |
| 53 | According to the historians , the Norwegian companies also did experiments at about the same time . |
| 54 | The stern Quaker historian of Liskeard , Allen , wrote in the 1850's that ‘ all these idle , absurd practices were abandoned about the same time , early in the present century ’ . |
| 55 | About the same time it was recommended that the church at Seagoe should be removed to Edenderry for the greater convenience of the parishioners , a suggestion not implemented . |
| 56 | At about the same time we made the acquaintance of a young Nigerian living in the town , and in due course his bride came to stay in our house until her marriage . |
| 57 | About the same time a series of unsolved murders of prostitutes in that city came to an end . |
| 58 | Coincidentally management of the latter changes hands about the same time . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | A similar poll was carried out among academics in the United States at about the same time . |