Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] the same time " in BNC.
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| 61 | At about the same time the French monk Abbo of Fleury was writing about the death of another English leader who had fallen at the hands of the Danes : Edmund , king of the East Angles , who had been killed in 869 . |
| 62 | The revival of Roman Law in eleventh- and twelfth-century Italy , and of canon law at about the same time , accustomed men to systems of law in which legislation was normal and easy . |
| 63 | At the end of 1777 de Broglie submitted to King Louis XVI an improved version of the proposals he had drafted 12 years before while at about the same time a new figure appeared on the scene , the 39-year-old Edward Dumouriez , an able army officer who had caught the eye of the king and been appointed Commandant of Cherbourg . |
| 64 | At about the same time the aliens department of the Home Office took on extra staff and moved to Cleveland House on Thorney Street . |
| 65 | A case for seasonal adjustment exists where recognisable seasonal variations occur year after year with a fixed period and where the increases and decreases occur at about the same time and in about the same proportion each year . |
| 66 | They always passed at about the same time , right after midnight , and it was something he liked to watch , the way other people watch sunsets or the ocean . |
| 67 | Pauline Simonescu , finding the austerities of post-war London bad for business , had moved back to Paris at about the same time he , too , had returned , from Oxford . |
| 68 | Almost equally ambitious development projects were going on in Kenya at about the same time . |
| 69 | The same idea occurred to Henry Fosbrooke in Tanganyika at about the same time . |
| 70 | This was erected in 1801 at about the same time as some of the farmhouses in the parish . |
| 71 | When the Balie Swart-Elandre van den Bergh hearing were completed Knight launched a series of attacks from South Africa and , at about the same time , Mayhew complemented those from Auckland . |
| 72 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 73 | At about the same time , however , there was someone , somewhere , who was more than usually interested in chronicling Titford family details from past generations : a sheet of pale blue paper watermarked ‘ 1860 ’ was covered with names and dates by some mysterious hand , and eventually found its way into Benjamin 's own papers . |
| 74 | At about the same time , something extraordinary happened . |
| 75 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 76 | At about the same time , Price Waterhouse won the Guardian Royal Exchange audit . |
| 77 | At about the same time , Lotus moved to bigger premises in Norfolk and made the decision to aim higher with models like the Elan and the Europa . |
| 78 | At about the same time , as Haiducu abandoned his mission , the Bulgarian exile , Georgi Markov , whose revelations of the corruption of Zhivkov 's cronies infuriated Ceauşescu 's Bulgarian counterpart , was murdered by an unknown agent of the Bulgarian secret police in London . |
| 79 | However , he was not alone : at about the same time Saddam Hussein began his project of rebuilding Babylon on its original site . |
| 80 | At about the same time , April 1946 , U Tin Tut , the brilliant and most able indigenous member of the Burmese Civil Service , who won his place by competition in the earlier days of the ICS , decided to leave Government service and go into politics . |
| 81 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 82 | At first , Ackroyd thought nothing about it , but he saw him again the following Saturday at about the same time . |
| 83 | At about the same time , far away in Rome , Christians were being persecuted by the Emperor Nero . |
| 84 | I played a similar round at about the same time at the Nabisco/ Dinah Shore Tournament at Mission Hills , California . |
| 85 | He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time . |
| 86 | But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’ |
| 87 | Well , you will come in the morning about … at about the same time ? ’ |
| 88 | At about the same time as he issued his threat of deposition to all the abbots of Normandy , he ordered Anselm to send him his Monologion and Proslogion , perhaps initially for censure , and it may have been through Hugh that Gregory VII knew Anselm 's works . |
| 89 | At about the same time , French units made a diversionary landing at Kum Kale on the Asiatic side of the strait to confuse the Turks as to the Allies ' true intentions . |
| 90 | At about the same time , given by flags , which for a time went undetected by the 5th Battle Squadron , commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas . |