Example sentences of "[prep] the same time [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far this year , drugs officers have made more than 130 seizures — twice the figure for the same time last year . |
| 2 | CND and judicial review At about the same time that legislation was introduced to tackle the problems raised by the Malone decision , the Massiter revelations led to a second attempt to challenge the pre-1985 procedures in the domestic courts , this time on different grounds from those which had failed before Sir Robert Megarry . |
| 3 | Walpole House , which had been erected in the sixteenth century , was altered with a new front elevation , in 1730 , and at about the same time two other houses were knocked into one to become Strawberry House . |
| 4 | The boy goes by at about the same time each day , and he is always carrying a bag . |
| 5 | At about the same time several young Ragusan aristocrats were writing love poems in Croatian , in the manner of Petrarch 's Canzoniero and of the troubadours who followed the Tuscan tradition . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Until the same time next week , then , good-bye . |
| 8 | It 's best if you keep to the same time each week for regular activities , though be prepared to be flexible about it . |
| 9 | ‘ Demand has been increasing steadily since November and we 're now dealing with twice the number of applications compared to the same time last year . |
| 10 | Just 33,000 cars were registered in July — and only 13,000 by private motorists — a drop of eight per cent on the same time last year . |
| 11 | The Halifax says that in September the average price of a house in this country was up by one percent on the same time last year . |
| 12 | This can be a two-way flow ; a good home base can help to create contentment , and at the same time personal satisfaction in life will feed back into the home and make it a pleasant environment for others . |
| 13 | At the same time necessary , but expensive , investment on plant and equipment was lacking , and the firm 's ability to remain competitive was severely hampered . |
| 14 | At the same time princely festive opera began to make its way abroad , only to be checked by war . |
| 15 | At the same time similar surveys have been conducted in Ipswich and Cambridge , and although these results are not fully confirmed , their respective county councils state that their findings are likely to be similar to the findings from Essex . |
| 16 | At the same time two giant Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transport aircraft flew from Clarke air-force base in the Philippines to Teheran with spare parts for Iran 's F-4 , F-5 and F-I4 aircraft and some much needed radar equipment . |
| 17 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 18 | Through the use of these negatives ( engineering and maths ) , we can see students ' construction of an identity as ‘ physicist ’ : a person who is not too remote from reality , but who is at the same time capable of independent and abstract thought — a point we shall return to in Chapter 6 . |
| 19 | But in the opinion of one analytical chemist connected with racing , designer drugs have become big business in America and side-by-side with their development have come masking agents — innocent in themselves but if administered at the same time capable of totally wiping out any trace of them . |
| 20 | At the same time limited continuation of guerrilla activity would continue indefinitely . |
| 21 | At the same time rural children became more familiar with the accoutrements of a national ( indeed , international ) youth culture in terms of clothes , music and other aspects of their life-style . |
| 22 | At the same time rural transport has been caught in a vicious circle of declining demand and rising fares which not even the provision of subsidies has been able to break . |
| 23 | In a way , the three of them were like moles , digging their way to the surface looking for freedom , coincidentally at the same time that counter-culture was doing the same and searching for heroes . |
| 24 | It would have been wrong to propose that subsidized admission to such schools should he offered to very bright pupils , at the same time that comprehension was being commended ( sometimes forcefully so ) to grammar schools . |
| 25 | Apart from some initial instability of woodwind tuning , the orchestra , under its conductor John Forster , worked hard to achieve the necessary space in the opening and at the same time that important sense of continuity . |
| 26 | There 's also talk that an outlaw called Ninjaman was killed by police at the same time that DJ Ninjaman ( no relation ) was visiting the copshop to pay a minor fine . |
| 27 | For the NMDA channel to open , and thus to trigger the induction of LTP , it is necessary for two events to occur simultaneously : the membrane must be sufficiently depolarized to expel Mg 2+ from NMDA channels at the same time that L-glutamate has , by binding to NMDA receptors , promoted their opening . |
| 28 | The new Civil Code tried to adjust this anomaly by laying down that the right of ownership should lapse at the same time that the right of revendication lapses . |
| 29 | China , if the one-child policy continues to be pursued successfully at the same time that life expectancy is being extended , looks set for an extraordinarily rapid transition to being the oldest society ever known — an apparently unforeseen consequence of her birth-rate policy , according to work being carried out by James Smith and Peter Laslett at the Rank Xerox Unit for the Study of Ageing , University of Cambridge . |
| 30 | But at the same time that emptiness in her heart still haunted her , that emptiness that only Jake could fill . |