Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had businesses in the North and used regularly at this time of year at the end of the summer sales , to go the rounds of his shops , take stock , examine the books , and so on . |
| 2 | The region of Conques suffered especially at this time from the breakdown of public authority and the rise of an aristocracy exercising local power from newly built castles . |
| 3 | The school owed much at this time to the support of William Smyth , Bishop of Lincoln , who was one of the founders of Brasenose College in 1509 . |
| 4 | Many traders , dockers and railwaymen came into these towns which grew rapidly at this time . |
| 5 | Her aunt 's house was all of seven miles away and darkness fell early at this time of the year . |
| 6 | Over the farmhouse door is a date stone , 1712 , referring to Roger and Isabella Taylor , who lived there at that time . |
| 7 | Moreover , the latest available data on more local patterns of employment growth in the 1980s indicate the sharpness of the boundary between the two parts of the country , because they show that , though more rural parts of the North performed well at this time , the greatest concentration of rapid job growth occurred south of a line running from the Severn estuary to Lincolnshire ( figure 8.1 ) . |
| 8 | Many young people with the encouragement of their parents , left home at this time to avoid these responsibilities . |
| 9 | Ernie , who regarded himself as an expert with horses , had never at any time reassessed his skills . |