Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people travel too far to work , at about the same time every day . |
| 2 | About the same time a series of unsolved murders of prostitutes in that city came to an end . |
| 3 | At the end of 1777 de Broglie submitted to King Louis XVI an improved version of the proposals he had drafted 12 years before while at about the same time a new figure appeared on the scene , the 39-year-old Edward Dumouriez , an able army officer who had caught the eye of the king and been appointed Commandant of Cherbourg . |
| 4 | And about the same time a mystery blaze broke out at Madame Tussaud 's , another of the capitals major tourist attractions . |
| 5 | ‘ Round about the same time a Panamanian registered cargo ship by the name of the Ramsland , chartered by the same gang who had organized the Valhalla , put into Boston harbour and was promptly seized by the United States Coast Guard . |
| 6 | At about the same time a consortium of West European banks refused to grant Cuba the credits it had requested , apparently as a result of US pressure . |
| 7 | About the same time a papal envoy , Egidius , was despatched to gain news , followed by Cardinal Guido of Preneste , the pope 's personal representative . |
| 8 | Thus in 1506 the Spanish representative in Venice was succeeded by his son , who presented to the doge on the day after his father 's death credentials prepared in advance ; and when about the same time a French ambassador to Hungary died , his duties immediately passed to his nephew , who completed the work of the embassy . |
| 9 | At about the same time an advance party from the RMP detachment of ten volunteer ‘ redcaps ’ leave for a short journey to Thorey Island , where their company has planned a military skills training weekend . |
| 10 | At about the same time the barons of Bedfordshire paid £200 ‘ for the disafforestment of that part of Bedfordshire which Henry I first afforested ’ — a definition which was to be the subject of future contention . |
| 11 | At about the same time the red blotches on her Louisa 's face also disappeared — which the doctor put down to coincidence . |
| 12 | At about the same time the French monk Abbo of Fleury was writing about the death of another English leader who had fallen at the hands of the Danes : Edmund , king of the East Angles , who had been killed in 869 . |
| 13 | At about the same time the aliens department of the Home Office took on extra staff and moved to Cleveland House on Thorney Street . |
| 14 | At about the same time the Party was attempting to make contact with him and finally did so in the persons of two of its eventually outstanding members , Vo Nguyen Giap and Pham Van Dong . |
| 15 | At about the same time the papers began to acknowledge the existence of the mercato nero , the black market , in bread , butter , pasta and other rationed goods ( it had always flourished , especially in the Po valley ) . |
| 16 | A dépot des archives was set up in 1688 ; while the Marquis de Torcy ( Louis 's last Foreign Minister ) had begun about the same time the creation of a rudimentary Press bureau . |
| 17 | About the same time the lawyers ' organisation , JUSTICE , published a report that sentence bargaining was abhorrent per se , because many persons might come under pressure to plead guilty when they ought not to do so . |
| 18 | I , I think Chairman that as , as we come out of the recession an and th that the overall erm level er quantity of development taking place increases , then we are almost bound to see perhaps more affordable housing erm in absolute terms , although I do n't see any opportunity of there being a a major hiccup in proportional terms , so I , I , like you , I think I remain er pessimistic er regarding the , the , the overview , although we might see er a turning up of the er of the graph having been bumping along the bottom for a little time a little while . |
| 19 | In the same time the army of managers expanded from 700 to 13,200 , the Health Department said . |
| 20 | But over the same time the proportion of women in professional families using it remained steady . |
| 21 | This indicates an acceptance of the state structures , or a recognition of a need for the separation of Northern Ireland from the remaining state structure of Ireland , but at the same time a continuing opposition to protestant — loyalist dominance . |
| 22 | A rift has opened between realism and something beyond , and at the same time a link has been forged between Dostoevsky 's favourite phrase , the deeper realism , and my own apocalyptic naturalism . |
| 23 | Davie himself provides the example of a dedicated university teacher , who is at the same time a fine poet , a practitioner of rigorously evaluative criticism , and a judicious reviewer . |
| 24 | At the same time a majority of 23 per cent of Labour partisans claimed the BBC was pro-Conservative and anti-Labour . |
| 25 | At the same time a large majority of voters thought that the press was biased , and that it was biased towards the Conservatives , against Labour , and against the Alliance . |
| 26 | At first this was hard to prove , since local authorities were now given many new relief duties : at the same time a number of extensive taxation rights were transferred away from them to the Centre . |
| 27 | At the same time a fleet of lorries equipped with a device called SCRIM ( Sideways Force Coefficient Routine Investigation Machine ) began a three-year programme of monitoring the skidding resistance of Britain 's major roads . |
| 28 | At the same time a platoon from A Company were finishing their week attached to the 1st Battalion the Danish Life Regiment , during which time they were thundering over training areas in the Danish Ml 13 Armoured Personnel Carrier . |
| 29 | It makes at the same time a characteristic noise that sounds like a burp . |
| 30 | But at the same time a claim is being made concerning factual evidence about God 's existence . |