Example sentences of "[prep] this time [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About this time machine knitting was becoming more popular and articles about how to make money from it were appearing . |
| 2 | About this time licence was obtained to prospect in the Seathwaite and Dunnerdale region but no great discoveries appear to have been made . |
| 3 | About this time crochet garments were in vogue , so I answered another advertisement . |
| 4 | About this time Mrs Foskett slipped on the floor and broke her hip , dying shortly afterwards . |
| 5 | About this time Brayton Case , the American Baptist missionary , lost his life . |
| 6 | At about this time King Philip Augustus of France directed a letter of protest against the promotion of Otto . |
| 7 | About this time Berthelet turned active supervision of his printing-house over to his nephew , Thomas Powell , probably by 1549 when he was granted a coat of arms . |
| 8 | About this time work commenced on sinking the proposed perpendicular rock shaft . |
| 9 | Its adoption by the merchant service seems to have been fairly gradual ( and was not complete until the 1860 s ) because about this time hemp rope was improved by being laid up , or twisted , mechanically , and thus much more tightly , so that the creep was considerably reduced . |
| 10 | At about this time Peter Barlow was promoting the idea of a network of underground railways as the solution to London 's street-traffic problems . |
| 11 | The pollen stratigraphy indicates that Salix -dominated vegetation , with a wide variety of herbs was prominent until about 6000 B.P. At about this time Empetrum and Calluna heath , grassland with abundant Plantago lanceolata and P. maritima , and fern-rich vegetation became widespread . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been thinking about this time muddle , Cassie . |
| 13 | About this time Gough married Joan Wood , of Peplow , by whom he had eight children between 1663 and 1678 . |
| 14 | About this time recruits had to pass an examination in English and arithmetic before being given permanent employment . |
| 15 | At about this time Mr. Tee did have some connection with Winchester , but the extent of that connection and what was to remain of it are matters in dispute between the parties . |
| 16 | But at about this time Mr. Steed returned from the United States and resumed residence in the property . |
| 17 | In the parliament of 1371 two Austin friars argued that in a national emergency the prince who has endowed the churches may resume their property for the good of the realm ; about this time Langland was enlarging in Piers Plowman upon Holy Poverty , as were so many friars in their sermons ; before the end of the reign Wyclif , spokesman for Gaunt , especially against his wealthy political enemy , Bishop Wykeham of Winchester , was denying the right of priests to hold any property . |
| 18 | About this time Zuwaya shaikhs and cadres attempted a reconciliation among Zuwaya sections : they held an assembly of shaikhs in Ajdabiya , including Zuwaya from Sebha and Tripolitania . |
| 19 | At about this time tights were no longer worn on stage : ‘ wet white ’ was used for the Girls ' legs . |
| 20 | About this time Wyndham Lewis expressed the wish to paint the Somerville friend of mine , and the ‘ Portrait of Miss Close ’ appears in Walter Michel 's compendium ( No. 5 ) . |
| 21 | About this time steel began to replace malleable iron as the premier construction material , so Colville sent his youngest son David to the Hallside works of the Steel Company of Scotland to gain the necessary experience of steel-making . |
| 22 | Also about this time Leopold compiled a list entitled ‘ Verzeichniss alles desjenigen was dieser 12jährige Knab seit seinem 7tem Jahre componiert , und in originali kann aufgezeiget werden ’ — [ List of everything that this 12-year old boy has composed since his 7th year , and can be exhibited in the originals ] ( 11 ) , and this may be a draft or copy of a document which accompanied the petition to Emperor Joseph II . |
| 23 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 24 | During this time Gould found more new species : the red-chested quail ( Turnix pyrrhothorax ) , the little eagle ( Hieraaetus morphnoides ) , the black-breasted buzzard ( Hamirostra melanosterna ) and the red-browed tree-creeper ( Climacteris erythrops ) among them . |
| 25 | During this time Dad was discovering how much he liked other people . |
| 26 | During this time conditions were to be worked out for a monitoring scheme and new quota system , which was expected to allow renewed exploitation of certain stocks , notably of minke whales . |
| 27 | During this time Willans improved his designs and adopted advanced manufacturing techniques , pioneering the rapid assembly of engines from standardized , interchangeable components . |
| 28 | During this time Shadwell had me concentrate on the animal noises I was to make between the dialogue , so that when , for instance , I was talking to Kaa the slithering snake , who saves Mowgli 's life , I had to hiss . |
| 29 | During this time Mozart composed a cycle of string quartets , K.168-K.173 . |
| 30 | During this time Mozart may have given some lessons to the young Beethoven , who was visiting Vienna for the first time . |