Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not help matters that about the time Rowell 's rather reluctant jab at some New Zealand rugby habits was being published it occupied space beside reports that the All Blacks had been over-vigorous — and sometimes over-the-top — in their match against New South Wales at Sydney . |
| 2 | She looked like a refugee from one of those films that at the time constantly glamourized the Paris left bank — like Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face or Juliet Greco in so many roles . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The rise of the electricity industry created a new market for his engines , which proved so well suited to driving dynamos that by the time of his death over half the country 's electrical power was generated by them . |
| 5 | Mr Goldring told the jury of seven men and five women that at the time of the incidents involving the twins , it never occurred to anyone that Allitt might have caused them . |