Example sentences of "[prep] that time they " in BNC.

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1 During that time they stopped to talk to no one , though they passed other craft on the river whose occupants stared at the company .
2 Yes , and during that time they used to have a lot of people visiting from overseas
3 He believes , or he chooses to believe , that in Chicago or somewhere else there were readers of Poetry magazine in 1918 who zealously and in all seriousness wanted to know what French poets of that time they might profitably read , and what in the broadest terms they should look for in each of them .
4 At the end of that time they again expressed doubts as to their liability to pay and for the next three years paid under protest .
5 Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant .
6 If , instead of ‘ piecework ’ , the men contracted to get the harvest in by the end of a month , it meant that should they finish before that time they could then go to other jobs on the farm , drawing their usual wage whilst doing so .
7 These continuous blasts may last for several hours , and in that time they eject large volumes of ash , which is always new magmatic material , rather than shattered bits and pieces of old rock .
8 In that time they saw no movement , no living or dead person , no sign of violence ; nothing , but the ordered emptiness of a darkened and dead ship .
9 In that time they were totally isolated from any contact with their parents , or with anyone else they knew or who cared about them .
10 In that time they 'd sealed off the room and the hotel .
11 In that time they carried two and a half thousand tonnes of food and medical supplies saving countless lives .
12 In that time they have built up a force of one hundred and fifty vehicles and three hundred and forty staff .
13 ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong .
14 If they can not do it in that time they never will .
15 Since that time they have been selectively-bred throughout the world to produce the 100 or more different varieties that are available today .
16 After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way .
17 This would hardly have been necessary if at that time they were in a position to dictate the policy and actions of the association .
18 At that time they were faced with legal fees of £3,000 if they sued the surveyor , and the risk of losing this as well if they could not prove the surveyor 's negligence in law .
19 At eighteen , he was physically much more mature than most English ballet students , because at that time they left school and began dancing professionally at sixteen or even younger .
20 However , at that time they were not prepared to make the road available .
21 At that time they were merely unwanted parasites and I was little more than a puzzled observer .
22 So she moves them to a nearby burrow when they are approximately four weeks old and at that time they will have become virtually self-supporting .
23 Shortly afterwards Rollasons contacted PAS with a view to purchasing the wings from them , as at that time they were desperate for Tiger Moth wings .
24 At that time they accounted for nearly two thirds of our production .
25 Papal actions , too , appeared to add further proof : after 1337 , except in 1362 and 1375 , popes no longer taxed the clergy for the benefit of the king in England , though at that time they were certainly enriching the French monarch by clerical taxes ; and while successive French kings readily obtained papal dispensations which enabled them to contract politically advantageous matches , Edward on two critical occasions — in the 1340s and 1360s — was denied such benefits .
26 If in the 1960s firms had responded to regional policy assistance , for instance , it was necessary to know why at that time they had needed that assistance .
27 And then at that time they 'd just opened .
28 And we 'd got two hundred and then the dyers they were in their own union er at er at that time they 'd perhaps got er er thirty in the dye-house .
29 The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board .
30 At that time they were unobtainable in Greece , and I had never used them before .
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