Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adj] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , contemporaries viewed bribery as a bargain in which a vote was exchanged for something tangible at a time of election , but quite apart from the general distaste for such transactions , there was insufficient patronage available to permit its lavish use , and there was certainly never enough money . |
| 2 | The shed running foreman had asked Sam if he would take young John as there was no one available at the time . |
| 3 | Like many animals which only produce one young at a time and may not breed every year , individuals are potentially very long lived , fifty or sixty years may not be unusual for some . |
| 4 | He was n't anything much at the time . |
| 5 | To be understood in its own terms , his policy should be seen not as the implementation of a " vision " of some future world order radically different from anything existing at the time , but as a series of practical initiatives to accelerate and to exploit an already occurring transformation . |