Example sentences of "[verb] at about the time " in BNC.

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1 Oligodendrocytes appear at about the time of birth and the astrocyte a week later .
2 This information fits logically with other known factors which occurred at about the time that people began this transition , observed Harris , including spreading village life and a rapid increase in the human population .
3 If this reconstruction is sound , Oswiu 's encounter with Fín occurred at about the time that he may have been seeking Irish support against the forces of Penda .
4 I thought of them studying the Military Manual of Fakhr-i-Mudabbir , the Adab al-harb Wa'l-Shaj'a , which was written at about the time Tughlukabad was being built .
5 Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth .
6 Er that the fires were set at about the time that the erm er that the armoured began breaching the walls of the compound .
7 In each bloc the decline in profit shares started at about the time that the accumulation rate peaked .
8 He seems to have gone missing at about the time your body was discovered . "
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