Example sentences of "[v-ing] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But few critics are laughing at a time when ex-Klansman David Duke is able seriously to contend the governorship of Louisiana . |
| 2 | The reason for this is to prevent additional symptoms occurring at a time when you might be suffering from PMT . |
| 3 | Moreover , this is occurring at a time when few resources are available to enable them to deal with increased numbers . |
| 4 | For Iraq , the effect had been particularly severe , occurring at a time when the country was suffering a financial crisis as a result of having fought a war against Iran on behalf of all Arabs . |
| 5 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 6 | All this was happening at a time when the Canadian Northern Railway was creating , in effect , a third transcontinental railway , built on much more economical lines than the exceptionally expensive and high-quality GTP . |
| 7 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 8 | We are living at a time when everyone is forced to adopt a political position : one day it will become clear that 6 February 1934 marked a dividing point in literature as well as in politics . |
| 9 | Living at a time when the value of works of art in the market was one of taste and appreciation rather than of mere commerce , he was able to avail himself of an ample fortune to buy the finest specimens of the Fine Arts which came into the market . ’ |
| 10 | Huxley was , after all , writing at a time when medical horizons were limited to digoxin for heart failure , morphine for pain and a handful of other remedies . |
| 11 | He already had a verbal agreement with Forest for another year , but chairman Frederick Reacher was anxious to put it in writing at a time when the anti-Clough lobby was growing in strength . |
| 12 | Freud may have been writing at a time of increasing urbanisation resulting from rapid industrialisation , but it is not at all clear that his work has any specifically ‘ urban ’ connotations . |
| 13 | The only systematic disentanglement from corporatist theorizing and policy analysis of the administrative component was by R. E. Pahl and J. T. Winkler , writing at a time when it seemed that Britain had been developing in the direction of corporatism for the previous fifteen years and was experiencing sectoral planning , planning agreements and statutory or voluntary controls over prices , profit margins , dividends , wages , rents and the movement of capital . |
| 14 | To overcome the problem of the softner regenerating at a time of peak demand , it is common practice to install duplex units in service/standby mode . |
| 15 | When asked what had kept him going at a time when Willie Miller 's appointment as manager at Pittodrie prompted speculation that McLeish might be a natural second-in-command , the defender was unequivocal . |
| 16 | In the Soviet Union popular support for the manned space programme was dwindling at a time of great economic hardship and political uncertainty for the majority of the population . |
| 17 | Yet if it is not alarmed by this procedure , you may well be able to relieve the obstruction and so prevent the dog from choking at a time when rapid action is required . |
| 18 | It 's heartening for actors like these from the award-winning Gate Theatre company to see a theatre expanding at a time when many they play in are threatened with closure . |
| 19 | More than 7,000 young men spent time at American air bases in Alabama , Georgia , Florida and South Carolina , learning the arts of flying at a time when Britain was desperately short of qualified pilots . |
| 20 | Hart was a great master printer and , as he had said of Charles , third Earl Stanhope [ q.v. ] , ‘ he did solid good to the Art of Printing at a time when help was sorely needed ’ ( Hart , Charles , Earl Stanhope , and the Oxford University Press , 1896 ) . |
| 21 | In the simplest systems , where only one program is running at a time , this means merely expediting the changeover from one program to the next . |
| 22 | Coming at a time of deep economic recession , the drought has affected the whole economy of Australia . |
| 23 | His ‘ powerhouse for change ’ is both optimistic and courageous , coming at a time of unprecedented change and innovation in the NHS . |
| 24 | This disappointment , coming at a time when he was already in a precarious state of health , is said to have accelerated Wasbrough 's death , which occurred 21 October 1781 . |
| 25 | The initiative is seen as important , coming at a time when social problems such as depression and suicide , increased violence and child abuse of all kinds are increasing . |
| 26 | He says it would be morally wrong to reduce spending at a time when millions depend on it just to survive . |
| 27 | Pitcher pooh-poohs the notion of a stock market listing at a time when so many entrepreneurs are taking their companies private once more . |
| 28 | Laugh , if you must , about Skoda , but its market share is increasing at a time when some ‘ serious ’ manufacturers are in decline . |
| 29 | Now , in order for Donald to be able to hear the replies as well , we must only have one person talking at a time . |
| 30 | In the 1980s , aggregate Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) has been roughly static , and per capita GDP has been falling at a time when net aid flows have been rising . |