Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In public hardline rhetoric also seemed appropriate at a time when McCarthy and his communist witch-hunt were riding high . |
| 2 | Our policy-making seemed stuck in a time warp in which we saw our role as offering help to a disadvantaged majority against a privileged minority — seemingly unaware that income is no longer distributed in a pattern that is pyramidal , but is egg-shaped . |
| 3 | They surfaced at intervals , burned hot for a time and then slipped back underground , to be stored again in layers of social and religious memory . |
| 4 | Moreover , prospects for new publishing ventures seemed bleak at a time when the print runs of even state-owned newspapers were being crippled by an acute paper shortage caused by inefficiency and technological obsolescence in the timber and pulp-and-paper industries . |
| 5 | And we got poorer in a time when dole |
| 6 | The minting of his own coins by Beonna could suggest that he too broke free for a time from Aethelbald 's domination . |
| 7 | Kapil 's early partners were busy medium-pacers in Karsan Ghavri and Madan Lal , while Chetan Sharma looked promising for a time before fading out of contention . |
| 8 | We kept two at a time , sometimes one and not what not . |
| 9 | After Freda and Leslie retired from active Junior encouragement , Henley 's youngsters went quiet for a time , until revitalised more recently and most effectively , by Malcolm White . |
| 10 | Depressed and anxious patients who sought refuge from their troubles by taking an overdose remained unconscious for a time but did not die of respiratory failure or asphyxiation , as happened only too readily after an overdose of barbiturate . |
| 11 | For the long observations ( b , c , e ) the power spectrum was estimated exactly as above , with periodogram estimates grouped 20 at a time , except for the lowest two points , which represent groups of 10 . |
| 12 | Johnny remained silent for a time , and then said : |