Example sentences of "[conj] at the time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , after almost fifty years of problems , the Club was on the verge of a breakthrough , although at the time did not know it . |
| 2 | But during the week immediately following the meeting two fortuitous things happened to the chemists that at the time looked too good opportunities to miss . |
| 3 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 4 | It did matter but we did n't know that at the time did we ? |
| 5 | The Celtic Church celebrated the feast days of the Virgin at the same time as the Egyptian Church , rather than at the time decreed by Rome . |
| 6 | I first saw Genesis around 1973 and at the time knew their music very well . |
| 7 | It would be helpful if you could confirm by telephone whether you are able to attend for interview on the date and at the time indicated . |
| 8 | However , another striking example of this type of mismatch arose when a student teacher CDL used a very simple program that asked children to estimate angles : it was simple to run and at the time had no documentation . |