Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] at the present time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 2 | One of the chief causes at the present time was the increase in interest rates , especially for the self-employed . |
| 3 | The future It was peculiarly difficult to predict future trends at the present time when it was anticipated that there would be a major re-distribution of work in the trial courts in consequence of legislation to give effect to the recommendations of the Civil Justice Review . |
| 4 | I soon realized that if one reversed the direction of time in Penrose 's theorem , so that the collapse became an expansion , the conditions of his theorem would still hold , provided the universe were roughly like a Friedmann model on large scales at the present time . |
| 5 | There is very little objective reason for choosing among these approaches at the present time . |
| 6 | The first area , which will be no surprise to readers of The Bookseller , is the mind-boggling rate of change that is affecting all businesses at the present time . |
| 7 | This objection may be made about most human beings as well as about most fictional characters at the present time , when there is no accepted common standard . |
| 8 | And I do n't want to give those figures at the present time . |
| 9 | Erm , there are no agreed sites at the present time . |
| 10 | The rise of the lay colleges at the present time is largely the fault of the medical profession itself , a result of its consistent disregard for this approach to treatment so that the demand for it far outweighs the practitioners available to supply that demand . |