Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | such person has not reached his or her seventy-first birthday at the time of injury |
| 2 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 3 | The second town at the time , York , only had a population of 11,000 . |
| 4 | " The grand old man " of the BDDA , George Frederick Healey , was in his eightieth year at the time of the Birmingham Congress . |
| 5 | Fittipaldi was two months short of his 24th birthday at the time . |
| 6 | ‘ If Sir Vivien had reached the fifteenth green at the time of his abduction and Bonzo arrived in the clubhouse at ten o'clock , we can assume that Sir Vivien himself must have begun his round at , shall we say , about half past eight . ’ |
| 7 | Mansell , in sixth place at the time , tagged the wall in turn nine with nine laps to go . |
| 8 | By the time that Israel became part of the Roman empire , the idea was already widespread among the various religious sects that the ‘ End of the World ’ was at hand , although it was only for the Essenes of Qumran that this belief assumed a definite form ; that , whereas the First Judgement at the time of Noah had been destruction by water , the Last Judgement would be destruction by fire . |
| 9 | Each of these three groups has made a first report at the time this Chapter was written . |
| 10 | There was a sad sequel when Combermere , who was in third place at the time , shattered a hind leg on landing over the penultimate fence and had to be destroyed . |
| 11 | In his forty-second year at the time of his death , his latter years had been passed in luxury and rich living . |
| 12 | New Life Designs organises festivals of mind , body and spirit , and is celebrating its tenth anniversary at the time of writing . |