Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 2 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 3 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 4 | He was the first big money(950,000) signning by Allan Clark , personally I think Clark just signed him because everybody else was spending absurd amounts money on crap , this was about the time malcolm allison was spending 1 to 2 million quid every other week on unknown bits of shit , so clarke thought lets join in . |
| 5 | This was at a time when the rest of the world , following the American lead , was developing a clear preference for water-cooled designs . |
| 6 | Again at the minimum , £60 million of this accrued directly to central government through VAT and duty on petrol , liquor and cigarettes ( this was at a time when VAT was eight per cent , not the current fifteen per cent ) . |
| 7 | This was at a time when prices were rising at 30–40 per cent per annum . |
| 8 | This was at a time when cylinders were only used for dictation purposes , not for recording music , and a speed of about 100 revolutions per minute was found adequate . |
| 9 | This was at a time when the work load was growing . |
| 10 | ‘ This was at a time when there was a lot of unpleasantness shown to people with AIDS , ’ he said in an interview with The Mail on Sunday . |
| 11 | Only when unemployment rose , however , were policies of this kind put into practice and this was at a time when there were insufficient jobs . |
| 12 | This was at a time when the principle of vaccination had still not been universally accepted , although the Vaccination Act of 1840 had enabled the guardians to provide it for paupers . |
| 13 | This was at a time when the same gp160 product was being vigorously touted by MicroGeneSys as a prophylactic vaccine candidate ; a time when , as now , being able to mimic as closely as possible the natural viral antigens was held to be important for such a vaccine . |
| 14 | The SPD seemed to have compromised its principles in joining the ‘ Kiesebrandt ’ coalition and this was at a time of growing questioning of capitalist society by intellectuals , students and radical politicians . |
| 15 | In addition , this was at a time when Coenwulf , king of the Mercians , was also giving protection to opponents of Eardwulf . |
| 16 | This was at a time when the resistance of Japan was expected to continue for anything up to eighteen months later . |
| 17 | This was at a time when British opinion was becoming evenly divided over the pros and cons of seeking prominence on the global stage . |
| 18 | This was at the time the government introduced conscription , when the travelling medical boards had instructions to discharge unfit men , to take the place of those called up . |
| 19 | This was during a time when Taiwan 's exports to Malaysia were increasing rapidly . |
| 20 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 21 | And er I remember we used to get the gas then , and er that was at a time they were used have an electric lamp we had had one in the stall , you see ? |
| 22 | Er that was at the time of er er King Edward the seventh , s It was time of his death was n't it ? |
| 23 | N I have worked with her on , she is responsible for some artist to do in Belgium and I needed some information on some artist who worked , that was at the time when I was doing eh , P R campaigns for er , Sheba , the cat product , and we needed . |
| 24 | That was in the time when Dr Marks was principal and a young master named George Scott was on the staff , two of the best remembered Britishers who ever lived in Burma . |
| 25 | That was round the time when I first went to see me doctor . |
| 26 | Neither was at the time of the sale physically attached to the realty . |