Example sentences of "[noun prp] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar poll was carried out among academics in the United States at about the same time . |
| 2 | A dispute in Hungary at about the same time was not resolved so amicably , at least in part because Hungary occupied a far more important strategic position in terms of Soviet security than did Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | At first , Ackroyd thought nothing about it , but he saw him again the following Saturday at about the same time . |
| 4 | Modernism always had an irremediably alien air about it , having reached England at around the turn of the century in the hands of immigrants : Conrad from Poland , Eliot and Pound from the United States , Wyndham Lewis from somewhere vaguely transatlantic . |
| 5 | Little was known , either , about the families of fourteen children taken into care in Aberdeen at around the same time as those in Ayrshire ; they did n't look for publicity , speak to the press or generate such wide interest and public concern . |
| 6 | Matty runs into small problems with Dave from within the department , who claims to have booked two sun-kissed weeks in Miami at around the same time . |
| 7 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 8 | Pauline Simonescu , finding the austerities of post-war London bad for business , had moved back to Paris at about the same time he , too , had returned , from Oxford . |
| 9 | He even dropped a hint that he had a conference in Perugia at about the same time and might very well find himself in Rome after it was over . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The same idea occurred to Henry Fosbrooke in Tanganyika at about the same time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Almost equally ambitious development projects were going on in Kenya at about the same time . |
| 14 | According to Hermann , working in the late eleventh century , this happened because Edmund 's popularity was increasing , and this tends to be confirmed by the entry of his feast-day in calendars produced in Winchester and Canterbury at about the same time , and by the inclusion of a special mass for him in a sacramentary probably written in Ely . |
| 15 | The next meeting of the village housing sub-committee is arranged for Monday 21st June at in the C E School at 7.30 pm . |
| 16 | So Ange rang this bloke , woman who sorted out Chrissie at at the school . |
| 17 | Interestingly , pine reached Skye at about the same time ( Birks and Williams , 1983 ) . |