Example sentences of "much [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line itself was very much state-of-the-art for the time , driven by punched paper tape and the section between London and Tehran had ten Wheatstone automatic repeaters installed as standard . |
| 2 | Those readers who remember the 1951 Festival of Britain in London will no doubt recall the shot tower which attracted much attention at the time . |
| 3 | There was much criticism of the time taken up in the Commons by these devolution measures , and also of the careless drafting of two bills which were likely to produce a legal and constitutional nightmare if they ever took effect . |
| 4 | During the War , we were kept , my mother and I , in a Japanese prison camp , which was n't much fun at the time , but won me an awestruck admiration from the other boys when I first went to school . |
| 5 | Despite the phraseology , the Messina declaration did not seem to have much impact at the time ; it was not seen as a dramatic move towards supranationalism . |
| 6 | Moreover , unlike most medieval letter writers — and , for that matter , even unlike most of us today when we dash off our epistles without much thought about the time — Petrarch ‘ spells out the dates ( including the hour ) with weight and deliberation , as if to stress the importance of taking one 's bearings in time ’ . |
| 7 | COSE being such a last orders affair , they were n't given much time at the time they were asked , apparently by Sun Microsystems Inc . |