Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a time when " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Messrs Ames , Myers , Wilbraham , Hudd and Irens and the shell company specialists like Messrs Lever and D'Silva , this recession might be a period that , unlike most , they will be able to recall fondly as a time when they grew their businesses . |
| 2 | In this programme , Stanley , at the age of 88 , looks back fondly to a time when he was , unquestionably , Champion of the World . |
| 3 | I would like to commend you for the support you give to rural artists and craftspeople , through your excellent articles — especially at a time when , due to cuts in grants , such people need all the help they can get . |
| 4 | This especially at a time when they were earning significant incomes from Blackwomen writers such as Alice Walker and Maya Angelou . |
| 5 | If any government were to try to force them to do so , there would interminable arguments about its definition and measurement , especially at a time when price controls and other government interventions are causing enormous distortions in enterprise incomes . |
| 6 | And Mark Irwin — editor of weekly soccer magazine Shoot ! — said : ‘ It seems a strange decision , especially at a time when you can hardly turn on the telly without some soccer being screened . |
| 7 | The evidence that it was an accident brought about by bullies was overwhelming , especially at a time when 9 out of 10 Britons were engulfed in a tide of hate for Hitler 's British Mosley stooges . |
| 8 | Buying a PC by mail order can be traumatic , especially at a time when companies are going bust with alarming regularity . |
| 9 | Despite the earlier campaigns to the Forth against the Britons , this further offensive and the resources which it required and continued to require while Mercian strength increased in southern England represented a serious dislocation of northern Anglian royal aspirations , especially at a time when Oswiu remained committed to the maintenance of his influence south of the Humber , at least in ecclesiastical affairs . |
| 10 | ‘ Frankly , it beggars belief that so many more people have suddenly become invalids , especially at a time when the health of the nation has improved , ’ Mr Major said in the Commons . |
| 11 | ‘ Frankly , it beggars belief that so many more people have suddenly become invalids , especially at a time when the health of the nation has improved , ’ Mr Major said in the Commons . |
| 12 | The average Jew was the average Englishman , living off a weekly pay packet of four pounds a week or less at a time when , in the worst-hit areas for unemployment , up to twenty per cent of the population was below the poverty line . |
| 13 | Once again , the two kings were stranded together at a time when the kingdom of Sicily was at a particularly explosive juncture in its long and turbulent history . |
| 14 | This collection has been brought together at a time when the Banjara people are gravitating towards the cities relinquishing their nomadic life and abandoning their dynamic textile art . |
| 15 | But was n't it a risk setting up alone at a time when you would n't be able to work continuously ? |
| 16 | Thus at a time when Africa needs to industrialize , to create both exports and jobs , a review of the last thirty years shows how difficult this task has been and will be . |
| 17 | Taylor believes he must protect Gascoigne just at a time when he seems to have shaken off the horrific knee injury that has kept him out of football for 17 months . |
| 18 | Just at a time when the Copts were especially sensitive . |
| 19 | None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed . |
| 20 | The book begins with the 1950s , when baby manuals indexed ‘ fathers ’ as ‘ for fathers see mothers ’ , and men were ‘ angry ’ , ‘ tough ’ or ‘ queer ’ ; it ends with ‘ a new agenda for the 1990s ’ , described hopefully as a time when men join women in fighting for an end to exploitation of women at work and home , and the ‘ masculinity ’ we have known will come to a timely end . |
| 21 | Once upon a time when Intel released the 80286 , everyone wanted to make a 286-compatible PC , including Ericsson . |
| 22 | Once upon a time when I used to read , or hear , about all the exciting even exotic things that apparently all other retired people got up to I used to think ‘ That 's for me ! |
| 23 | The Movement increased its membership from 5,000 in 1929 to 40,000 two years later at a time when the Communist Party was at its lowest ebb . |
| 24 | It is remarkable , however , that his fixed-wing propeller-driven models showed the way ahead so clearly at a time when most other proposals for aerial machines involved flapping wings or unlikely applications of the helicopter principle . |
| 25 | Tiger populations in the Russian Far East are facing a shortage of prey species , ironically at a time when their own numbers have recovered substantially . |
| 26 | Now at a time when the rest of Europe is moving towards providing all sorts of extra services for parents and children , we in Scotland seem to be going backwards . |
| 27 | Need it be a matter of wonder , when we see her capable of such restraint in general , that she should retire within herself and exercise that control we find her continually exerting over all her thoughts and actions the more energetically at a time when she is taught that a stray thought of desire would be impurity and its fruition pollution . |
| 28 | Counting those in the bristle-cone pine establishes that some of these gnarled and twisted trees germinated over five thousand years ago at a time when man in the Middle East was just beginning to invent writing , and have remained alive throughout the entire duration of civilisation . |
| 29 | Modern human fossils 100000 years old are known and humans were widespread in southern Africa by 50 000 years ago at a time when Europe was still populated by the related Neanderthals . |
| 30 | He became a protector of the species four years ago at a time when badger baiting had reached alarming proportions . |