Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] time the " in BNC.
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1 | The Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young affiliate firms , Showa Ota and Asahi Shinwa , were at the time the third and fourth largest auditors in Japan , with fee incomes of around Y10bn each . |
2 | He was for a time the coach at Harrow School and , from 1857 to his death , secretary of the Cricketers ' Fund Friendly Society . |
3 | It was during the time the play was being crafted , and for years afterwards , that Ken was a witness to the bizarre happenings that made up this strangest of all relationships , a relationship which ended with Halliwell murdering Orton and then taking his own life . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Mrs Williams was at the time the most popular women in the world , after Mother Teresa , and it occurred to me , rather too late , that I was on to a loser here . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | With these on-board sensors and airframe structural modifications , s/n 157 ( N166RS ) was at the time the most expensive Falcon in the world , costing 2.5 million dollars . |