Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a time when " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mm yes but we 're coming up to a time when er the quantity of old people is going to be rather high than before because we 're all healthier . |
| 32 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 33 | Brought up at a time when military aircraft would have seemed a fantasy , he later became an expert on one of the most complicated of signal functions , air-land co-operation . |
| 34 | I was fortunate to grow up at a time when imperial measurements were generally used , but science was special in being both imperial and metric . |
| 35 | Do n't try to give up at a time when you are already stressed . |
| 36 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 37 | The Movement increased its membership from 5,000 in 1929 to 40,000 two years later at a time when the Communist Party was at its lowest ebb . |
| 38 | It is remarkable , however , that his fixed-wing propeller-driven models showed the way ahead so clearly at a time when most other proposals for aerial machines involved flapping wings or unlikely applications of the helicopter principle . |
| 39 | As I came into the hotel I tried to project myself back into a time when I 'd have been thinking — Sunday press party , rather fun . |
| 40 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 41 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 42 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereigns were king coins . |
| 43 | But although the name Roath is an ancient one — it means , in Irish , the forest and therefore dates back to a time when Welsh was borrowing words from Irish , around the 5th century — there was little that surrounded the young Cottle which was in fact medieval . |
| 44 | I could understand them wanting to escape back to a time when they were ‘ needed ’ . |
| 45 | In order to challenge this complex of interlocking polarities , Amalgamemnon goes back to a time when the two domains , though distinct , were not yet differentiated by separate modes of narrative , back to Herodotus , the first prose artist and ‘ the father of fibstory ’ ( 22,113 ) . |
| 46 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 47 | Outlining plans for a rededication service by the Bishop of Clogher , Dr Brian Hannon , next Sunday , Mr Knowd said : ‘ We want to make this the beginning of a new chapter in the life of the church , which is a vital part of the heritage of the area , reaching back to a time when there was no denominational difference among Christians . |
| 48 | His book comes out at a time when anyone who shares his concerns may be feeling particularly down-hearted . |
| 49 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 50 | As a rule he was unobserved , as he took care to go out at a time when everyone in the house was occupied elsewhere . |
| 51 | An application for a warrant of further detention can be made up to 42 hours from the commencement of the detention clock , in a situation where the 36 hour period runs out at a time when it is not possible for a magistrate 's court to sit . |
| 52 | Tiger populations in the Russian Far East are facing a shortage of prey species , ironically at a time when their own numbers have recovered substantially . |
| 53 | Where a problem seems obviously more complex they suggest that the client makes an appointment with an adviser to come back at a time when the bureau is officially closed to the public . |
| 54 | Now at a time when the rest of Europe is moving towards providing all sorts of extra services for parents and children , we in Scotland seem to be going backwards . |
| 55 | Need it be a matter of wonder , when we see her capable of such restraint in general , that she should retire within herself and exercise that control we find her continually exerting over all her thoughts and actions the more energetically at a time when she is taught that a stray thought of desire would be impurity and its fruition pollution . |
| 56 | Hence there were a considerable number of able and committed prophets around at a time when the gospel they were spreading — a gospel of modernity — was one which their auditors were anxious to hear . |
| 57 | Counting those in the bristle-cone pine establishes that some of these gnarled and twisted trees germinated over five thousand years ago at a time when man in the Middle East was just beginning to invent writing , and have remained alive throughout the entire duration of civilisation . |
| 58 | Modern human fossils 100000 years old are known and humans were widespread in southern Africa by 50 000 years ago at a time when Europe was still populated by the related Neanderthals . |
| 59 | He became a protector of the species four years ago at a time when badger baiting had reached alarming proportions . |
| 60 | In the 1960s the number of pre-maritally conceived live births increased — not surprisingly at a time when sexual inhibitions were being cast off ( Bone 1986 ) . |