Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years . |
| 2 | It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock . |
| 3 | This was successful and at the time of Down 's death it could accommodate 200 patients . |
| 4 | More recently , he relocated the Schools Canteen from dingy basement to gleaming mezzanine and at the time of his death had nearly completed his greatest coup . |
| 5 | It was almost a year before it was strictly necessary and at the time there were voices advising delay . |
| 6 | It seems to have formed through the successive accretion of continental and island arc fragments ( see Section 3.6 ) from then until the middle Cretaceous and at the time of its collision with the Indian Plate it was probably an area of relatively warm and weak lithosphere . |
| 7 | I know it sounds pathetic but at the time it gave me a bit of a fright . ’ |
| 8 | It 's laughable but at the time it was n't laughable but when you think back , this man that I was put on with , he was acting guard foreman . |