Example sentences of "and at a time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , and at a time of less genial moods , the Report was to come under severe criticism . |
| 2 | They would take separate holidays at least once every two years ; they would have at most two children and at a time of her choosing ; neither would publicly humiliate the other ; the spectrum of marital offences under this heading ranging from spoiling the other 's dinner-party stories to a too-public infidelity . |
| 3 | And at a time of frequent harvest failures and recurrent food shortage , exports of grain were being ruthlessly forced upwards . |
| 4 | And at a time of great economic uncertainty , this goal assumes increased importance , especially in an ageing population . |
| 5 | Such sites suit their conventional styles of building and marketing , and at a time of low demand would improve their cash-flow by capitalising on their extensive land holdings of farm land on the fringe . |
| 6 | Controversy surrounded the release in January 1991 of four Belgian hostages in Lebanon [ see p. 37977 ] , when it emerged that Walid Khaled , the spokesperson in Lebanon of the extremist Revolutionary Council of Fatah ( RCF ) who had helped negotiate their release , had been granted a three-month tourist visa on Jan. 11 , one day before the hostages ' release and at a time of great international tension because of the Gulf crisis . |
| 7 | The University of Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history and at a time of difficulty for the institutions of higher education throughout the country , Edinburgh is in a process of constantly reappraising and improving standards to meet the growing demands of a changing world . |
| 8 | The dispute took place after the English victory at Agincourt and at a time of growing alliance between Henry V and the Emperor Sigismund against the French , and there is little doubt that the principal French spokesman on the subject , Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly , was largely concerned with cutting the enemy down to size . |