Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not clear whether by this time children were possible for the couple ; it was not apparent that the author knew much about that kind of thing . |
| 2 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 3 | A survey by the drugs company Beecham shows the incidence of flu is between 25 and 71 per cent higher than at this time last year . |
| 4 | Chevaline in all had risen in cost from £350 m. in 1974 to over £1 billion by 1982 , on top of the Polaris missile programme-even though by this time US-Soviet arms limitation agreements had made Chevaline redundant . |
| 5 | ‘ It will be no hindrance , either , ’ said Isambard dryly , ‘ that as at this time there is , as I hear , a certain animosity between the King and his brother . |