Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winston Benjamin had already claimed the prize scalp of Gooch for eight by the time Agnew peeled off his sweater . |
| 2 | It was well after nine by the time we got rid of them . ’ |
| 3 | By the time these cases were heard Mettingham had replaced the disgraced Thomas de Weyland [ q.v. ] as chief justice of the Common Bench , a post which he held from the beginning of 1290 until the time of his death . |
| 4 | Not on the amount were if you think the health 's , I mean the Health Service buy sort of forty at a time , erm , so , you never know . |
| 5 | Their campaign reached its height in the winter of 1861–62 at a time when the anxieties of both reactionary and liberally inclined sections of the nobility were intense . |
| 6 | In a survey carried out at the end of October of a sample of 100 of The Times top 1000 companies , it found that 61 per cent of companies were experiencing worse bad debt problems . |
| 7 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 8 | I was only a boy of ten at the time , but it left its mark on me too . |
| 9 | He is , I must add , all of seventeen at the time . |
| 10 | It is past nine by the time we start to harness the dogs , and the sky is a little clearer , the temperature a little cooler . |
| 11 | The term ‘ schoolgirl mother ’ strictly refers to those under the age of 16 at the time of conception . |
| 12 | Expulsion of the women 's group would mean a significant drop in the total membership of 500,000 at a time when numbers joining are declining . |
| 13 | Expulsion of the women 's group would mean a significant drop in the total membership of 500,000 at a time when numbers joining are declining . |
| 14 | The only practical problem at the time was that I would have to take the orchestra on its American tour in the first months of 1955 at a time when I was contracted to conduct a new Ring cycle at La Scala , Milan . |
| 15 | I 'll be near forty by the time she 's ready for marriage , and that 's a lifetime away ; and it 's your lifetime away , too . |
| 16 | In 1926 38.3 per cent of the population were Ukrainian as against 37.9 at the time of the 1923 census . |
| 17 | ‘ So we did that and I went and told everybody , because I was like sixteen at the time I did it . |
| 18 | Profit predictions for 1992 at the time of flotation in 1989 were around £20m . |
| 19 | Several questions remain unanswered : would the police force be split into three at a time when the government is trying to rationalise the service . |
| 20 | But because the scale was this funny thing of well two of them means one hundred , you 're going along two at a time and it happens so often . |
| 21 | Although the eclipse is only partial at the two highest frequencies , so that the pulses are observed throughout the orbit , strong pulses are seen for only about one-quarter of the time at 606MHz , close to phase 0.75 when the pulsar is nearest to the Earth . |
| 22 | It is thought that from the late 16th century it was placed on top of the remaining tower of the ruined Kilwinning Abbey ( the Abbey was destroyed in 1561 at the time of the Scottish Reformation ) . |
| 23 | Truman owed a personal debt of loyalty to Louis Johnson , who had served as treasurer of Truman 's re-election committee in 1948 at a time when most commentators had consigned the President to ignominious defeat at the hands of Governor Dewey . |
| 24 | The last Briton to hold the world mile record , WG George in 1886 with a time of 4min 12 ¾sec , was at Motspur Park on August 28 to watch Wooderson 's attempt . |
| 25 | It was finally incorporated in the SMM , launched early in 1980 near the time of maximum sunspot activity . |
| 26 | You remember , he was appointed President of the Reichsmusikkammer in 1933 at the time when he was working on Die schweigsame Frau with Stefan Zweig . |
| 27 | While retaining an interest in the Artillery Company , he transferred to the Stationers ' Company in 1777 , becoming a liveryman in 1776 at the time of his move to 33 Leadenhall Street . |
| 28 | The Widdicombe Committee was appointed in 1985 at a time of high political controversy about the activities of certain local authorities . |
| 29 | She first went to Vietnam in 1985 at a time when the country was still much more closed to journalists than it is now , full of enthusiasm that she was finally fulfilling a long-time ambition . |
| 30 | Known as mamluks ( an Arabic term meaning " owned " ) this army raised in the slave markets of the Caucasus and beyond , took over power in 1250 at a time of Mongol threat from the east . |