Example sentences of "[adv] at the time [that] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Mazowiecki also said pointedly at the time that he was not prepared to replace one philosophically biased government ( a communist one ) with another philosophically biased government ( an avowedly Catholic one ) . |
2 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
3 | This idea is not very palatable : why should the Sun be anomalous just at the time that we start to search for neutrinos ? |
4 | No later than early 716 Nechtan , son of Derilei , king of the Picts , approached Ceolfrith , abbot of the monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow , for guidance on Dionysian Easter tables and the Roman dating of Easter ( HE V , 21 ) — probably at the time that the Northumbrian priest , Ecgberht , was persuading the church on Iona to adopt the same ( HE 111 , 4 ; V , 22 , 24 ) — and in 717 expelled the Columban communities from Pictland into Dál Riata ( AU s.a. 715 , 716 : AT p. 225 ) . |
5 | I mean , that was obviously put in here at the time that we did n't have anything that covered it . |
6 | Even at the time that the White Paper was being issued in 1972 , it was becoming clear that the rapidly declining birth rate would have very serious repercussions for the colleges of education ; however , it was not until the decline began to steepen in the mid-1970s that the full implications were publicly announced by the DES . |