Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But few critics are laughing at a time when ex-Klansman David Duke is able seriously to contend the governorship of Louisiana . |
| 2 | ‘ We are living on a time bomb here . ’ |
| 3 | We are living at a time when everyone is forced to adopt a political position : one day it will become clear that 6 February 1934 marked a dividing point in literature as well as in politics . |
| 4 | Er , today and every day , almost , a question of the police , at the moment , there is this business going on , er , in in London , at Stoke Newington , over the fact that , the charges against the police for corruption , being involved with all sorts of things that they should n't , er , and we are living through a time , where the police is having to fight a battle for it 's own respect . |
| 5 | Instead we are living in a time when we can watch a TV ad which tells us that cars which are way beyond the range of most people 's pockets are being ‘ handbuilt ( somewhere else ) by robots ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're living on a time bomb ’ |
| 7 | I 'm thinking of a time scale of about ten years ahead . |
| 8 | DNA changes by biological evolution only on a time scale of millions of years , but our powers of destruction are increasing on a time scale for the evolution of information , which is now only twenty or thirty years . |