Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 2 | The engine was recorded as having a total time of 302.30 hours at the time of the accident . |
| 3 | You 're sure to spend a good few hours at the time playing this fun sports sim — so do n't for get the suntan oil ! |
| 4 | Although they began to be replaced in the more advanced parts of China by bronze coins by the middle of the first millennium B.C. , they still circulated in some provinces at the time of Marco Polo 's visit during the late thirteenth century . |
| 5 | Important theoretical influences at the time were the writings of Bernstein , Illich and Freire . |
| 6 | One of the most popular motifs at the time the shop opened was of swans and lions , which came from an old , heraldic design ; another was a Persian print showing a fantastical dog in a jungle of giant thistles . |
| 7 | The rebuilt database will reflect all completed transactions at the time the error was detected . |
| 8 | The question enrages China , which gobbled up Tibet in 1951 ( to few protests at the time ) . |
| 9 | A paper by David Whitaker claims an 86% hit rate for Bookseller entries with public libraries at the time of ordering titles , and 80%–100% hit rates at the time of cataloguing . |
| 10 | Children under 2 years at the time of the return journey travel for just £15 on all flights . |
| 11 | Children aged under 2 years at the time of departure are covered free of charge , provided all other persons on the Booking Form are insured under this scheme . |
| 12 | Much of the Somerset Levels and the Fens was shared out between the parishes around , and small blocks were allocated as detached portions at the time of enclosure or drainage ( Fig. 62 ) . |
| 13 | Kanof et al reported a decrease in height velocity in 88% of Tanner 1 or 2 patients at the time of diagnosis and before treatment . |
| 14 | But there were a few tears at the time were n't there ? |
| 15 | A fleet of 50,000 tons at the time of Drake had become a grander fleet of 200,000 tons a century later when Samuel Pepys was " clerk of the king 's ships " . |
| 16 | Farmers had purchased land at quite unrealistic prices at the time of the reform and were not burdened with long-term borrowing . |
| 17 | You see the Italians when they vote in that referendum , I 've discussed it with quite a few cousins at the time , it was n't they 're exactly |
| 18 | Giovanna Sassanta had given Julia a rather different view of the fighting in the Cassino valley from the one she had gained from the British newspapers at the time . |
| 19 | I should have gone to the French police at the time , but I did n't , and now the evidence has gone . |
| 20 | It had a strength of forty men at the time of the shooting and carried out surveillance work in areas where uniformed trooPs could not move freely . |
| 21 | After the UN freeze on Iraqi assets at the time of the Gulf War , this packet of shares has not benefited from voting rights or dividends . |
| 22 | Few commentators at the time saw in the conference the beginnings of the Pacific age . |
| 23 | In agricultural terms the death and resurrection of Osiris as a very early nature god were celebrated each year in simple popular ceremonies at the time of the Nile flood , when the seed crop was sown and when the harvest was gathered . |
| 24 | ‘ If such an experiment were successful , I would n't care to be within thirty or forty miles at the time . ’ |
| 25 | Here significant uplift of rift flanks has occurred although there is convincing evidence ( from the deposition of marine sediments at the time of rifting ) that rifting preceded uplift . |
| 26 | Had I read enough French novels at the time , I would have known what to expect ; and of course it was here that I fell in love for the first time . |
| 27 | And both of us being free spirits at the time . ’ |
| 28 | It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 ; indeed evidence seems to indicate that it was one of the oldest and largest settlements at the time of Domesday . |
| 29 | Somewhat similar proposals at the time of the Revolution of 1688 , for subjecting the Chancery to the control of the Common Law Courts , were rejected . |
| 30 | They also complained at the release of another man detained with Dalkammoni , Marwant Khreesat , reportedly a Jordanian or West German intelligence agent who was believed to have produced a total of five or six bombs at the time . |