Example sentences of "[noun prp] about the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 2 | Arthur and Helena Naulls had had their Golden Wedding party in November about the time of Stephen 's own twenty-first birthday . |
| 3 | At one level , June Braithwaite attacked Robert about the time he spent away from home and what he did and did not do for the children . |
| 4 | Garrett mixes gin and tonics and ribs Sam about the time he mired his boat on the rock island at the foot of the rapid . |
| 5 | He did n't tell long stories like Patsy did , or wistful tales like Dekko Moore about the time he made harnesses for the Lords of the Soil somewhere down in Meath . |
| 6 | He wrote to Hanns about the time when wigs had been needed for Dulcie 's ballet Fête galante , and one of the part-time dancers in the Ballet Club , a hairdresser by trade , offered to make them , from papier-mâché . |