Example sentences of "[noun pl] about [art] time " in BNC.

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1 There were proposals about the time of Nationalisation , when the Regional Boundaries were being drawn up .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Asked whether the same applied to Mrs Thatcher , Dr Kohl replied : ‘ She is a democrat , she supports self-determination , but her ideas about a time frame for German unity are different . ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
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