Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] at [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were three poor brothers living at that time who owned nothing in the world but one pear tree . |
| 2 | That the project 's objectives took the form they did was partly due to the particular interests of those involved and partly to a knowledge of other experimental projects operating at that time . |
| 3 | Reports from the clergy in some of the affected dioceses show that they were perplexed by the variety and number of the movements emerging at this time . |
| 4 | So it was a , a , a firm of about a hundred years standing at that time . |
| 5 | All other others on these pages are applicable for customers booking at any time . |
| 6 | It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew-like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , the fact remains that even this frog is dependent upon rains arriving at some time and its active life is , in reality , condensed to that brief moment when the desert is wet . |