Example sentences of "[prep] [num] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not on the amount were if you think the health 's , I mean the Health Service buy sort of forty at a time , erm , so , you never know . |
| 2 | Their campaign reached its height in the winter of 1861–62 at a time when the anxieties of both reactionary and liberally inclined sections of the nobility were intense . |
| 3 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 4 | I was only a boy of ten at the time , but it left its mark on me too . |
| 5 | He is , I must add , all of seventeen at the time . |
| 6 | The term ‘ schoolgirl mother ’ strictly refers to those under the age of 16 at the time of conception . |
| 7 | Expulsion of the women 's group would mean a significant drop in the total membership of 500,000 at a time when numbers joining are declining . |
| 8 | Expulsion of the women 's group would mean a significant drop in the total membership of 500,000 at a time when numbers joining are declining . |
| 9 | The only practical problem at the time was that I would have to take the orchestra on its American tour in the first months of 1955 at a time when I was contracted to conduct a new Ring cycle at La Scala , Milan . |
| 10 | In 1926 38.3 per cent of the population were Ukrainian as against 37.9 at the time of the 1923 census . |
| 11 | ‘ So we did that and I went and told everybody , because I was like sixteen at the time I did it . |
| 12 | Profit predictions for 1992 at the time of flotation in 1989 were around £20m . |
| 13 | Several questions remain unanswered : would the police force be split into three at a time when the government is trying to rationalise the service . |
| 14 | But because the scale was this funny thing of well two of them means one hundred , you 're going along two at a time and it happens so often . |
| 15 | It is thought that from the late 16th century it was placed on top of the remaining tower of the ruined Kilwinning Abbey ( the Abbey was destroyed in 1561 at the time of the Scottish Reformation ) . |
| 16 | Truman owed a personal debt of loyalty to Louis Johnson , who had served as treasurer of Truman 's re-election committee in 1948 at a time when most commentators had consigned the President to ignominious defeat at the hands of Governor Dewey . |
| 17 | You remember , he was appointed President of the Reichsmusikkammer in 1933 at the time when he was working on Die schweigsame Frau with Stefan Zweig . |
| 18 | While retaining an interest in the Artillery Company , he transferred to the Stationers ' Company in 1777 , becoming a liveryman in 1776 at the time of his move to 33 Leadenhall Street . |
| 19 | The Widdicombe Committee was appointed in 1985 at a time of high political controversy about the activities of certain local authorities . |
| 20 | She first went to Vietnam in 1985 at a time when the country was still much more closed to journalists than it is now , full of enthusiasm that she was finally fulfilling a long-time ambition . |
| 21 | Known as mamluks ( an Arabic term meaning " owned " ) this army raised in the slave markets of the Caucasus and beyond , took over power in 1250 at a time of Mongol threat from the east . |
| 22 | Within the Common Market , Britain in 1989 seemed as much the odd nation out as it had been in 1979 at the time of the rancorous Dublin summit , unable to prevent major changes within the Community by responding in a negative , bad-tempered way . |
| 23 | Normally London left Stormont to get on with these policies , only intervening in 1969 at the time of the civil rights movement when there was a clear danger of a collapse of law and order due to disputes between Catholics and Protestants over local government , over the allocation of houses and of jobs and over the conduct of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and of the armed ‘ B ’ special reserves . |
| 24 | The breed was recognised in 1853 at a time when Tyssandier d'Escours did much to improve it , partly by using the red Devon which , in turn , is now being boosted with Salers blood . |
| 25 | In 1962 at the time the Master Plan was submitted the Architect 's Journal reported briefly on the proposals and questioned whether Cramlington New Town would ever materialize in the form recoin mended by the planning consultants . |
| 26 | Persistant epigastric pain lasting from 6 months to 5 years was the predominant complaint , associated with acute gastric bleeding in three patients , anaemia in two ( haemoglobin <10 g/dl ) , and weight loss ( >5 kg ) in five at the time of diagnosis . |
| 27 | Beveridge had presented his report in 1942 at a time when it was overwhelmingly agreed that there should be no return to the conditions of the 1930s . |
| 28 | Lane 's partnership with the printer of the Star , Peter Stuart [ q.v. ] , was curtailed in 1789 at the time of the Regency Bill , when Stuart allegedly printed anti-Pitt propaganda ; in revenge , Stuart began a short-lived rival to the Star in which Lane was pilloried as a ‘ scribbling poulterer ’ and his paper as the ‘ Dog Star ’ . |
| 29 | Mr Vasarhelyi fled the country in 1956 at the time of the Hungarian Revolution . |
| 30 | These applications were vetoed at the time by de Gaulle and his allies , and this veto was upheld in 1967 at the time of their second application . |