Example sentences of "[prep] this time it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 2 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 3 | During this time it was not possible to determine oesophageal bicarbonate outputs by the pH/pCO 2 method as the pH was below 6.1 . |
| 4 | For this time it was an army , no less , ten thousand strong , though its actions were still those of simple border reivers . |
| 5 | Since this time it was a revolt in Aquitaine it was doubly significant for Richard 's future . |
| 6 | It usually took two men to hold the tyre and if the smith thought the fit was satisfactory — at this time it was half-an-inch larger than the wheel — the boy helping was ordered to throw buckets of cold water over the still very hot steel which would immediately contract and tightly hold the rim . |
| 7 | At this time it was filled with the sort of junk that might come in handy one day if one could remember where one had put it . |
| 8 | At this time it was impossible to bore out a smooth cylinder of this size , so the piston was not therefore a good fit . |
| 9 | In England at this time it was quite avant garde to possess a refrigerator . |
| 10 | The restructuring school argued that to understand what was happening to the geography of British manufacturing at this time it was necessary to analyse this situation . |
| 11 | At this time it was believed that the return of Mr. Osman to Hong Kong was imminent . |
| 12 | At this time it was , to use Nettl 's term , an ‘ inheritor party ’ ; that is to say , a party which expects to inherit power following the decline and overthrow of the existing political system and its socio-economic basis . |
| 13 | By this time it was generally considered that the forests were anachronistic and unprofitable . |
| 14 | By this time it was severed just around the corner from Staveley Town South Junction . |
| 15 | By this time it was past 3.30 , the light was fading fast , and the blizzard that the ignored weatherman had warned would sweep the Highlands was whipping into action . |
| 16 | By this time it was snowing hard . |
| 17 | By this time it was towards the end of October 1190 and too late to make the sea crossing to the Holy Land . |
| 18 | by this time it was nearly 1.00 pm . |
| 19 | This expired in 1978 , but by this time it was such an established force in user education in the USA that it was able to switch to being a self-financing , subscription-funded clearinghouse in that year . |
| 20 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
| 21 | By this time it was only the bullards and the newly created orders of masons that held the knowledge of the bull . |
| 22 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |
| 23 | In 1872 he served briefly on Birmingham town council , being elected to fill a casual vacancy in October only to be defeated at the municipal elections a month later , but by this time it was apparent that he was a talented organizer and in 1873 he was appointed full-time secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Association in succession to William Harris . |
| 24 | By this time it was broad daylight . |
| 25 | ‘ By this time it was 5.30pm in midwinter and snowing again . |
| 26 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
| 27 | By this time it was mid December and Christmas was only a week away . |
| 28 | By this time it was apparent that LIFFE had become a firmly established feature of London 's financial markets . |
| 29 | By this time it was approaching midnight and when I got back to camp and rang Bomber Command the duty officer was most reluctant to put me through to " Bomber " Harris . |
| 30 | Well by this time it was ten to eight and I 'd got all these members were going to be outside , I was going to have to let them in and serve them and I was getting a bit frantic you see . |