Example sentences of "[prep] this [adj] time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this critical time the ill feeling between Raine and the children boiled over into a series of vicious exchanges . |
| 2 | The two species live as adults for only 12–16 days ; in this short time a mate must be found . |
| 3 | In all your efforts to help her at this crucial time the most important thing to remember is to try to reduce her anxiety by being as relaxed and quietly optimistic about her future as you can , and to restrain her from making any major decisions hastily , regarding such matters as the disposal of property or moving house , as she may regret this later on when she is feeling less depressed . |
| 4 | I am surprised that at this sensitive time the Scottish Development Agency should have seen fit to invest $ 500,000 in Stagecoach , but I suppose that is a matter for the SDA , unless it did that under political direction . |
| 5 | At this very time the German H Grassmann was generalising complex numbers still further by inventing an unlimited number of arithmetics of n-tuples . |
| 6 | Throughout my life my tummy has been , as it were , my Achilles heel ; and around this same time the condition of my colon , which for the latter part of my life has had a habit of tying itself in knots , became particularly acute . |