Example sentences of "be [prep] a time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lammert is also keen to shorten the stay of each student at university , but is aware of how difficult and unpopular this would be in a time of high unemployment . |
| 2 | All this , of course , is during a time of exaggerated relief following the Pleistocene glaciation . |
| 3 | He was for a time in Ireland overseeing the introduction of these changes , and he and Thomas were both given substantial pensions ( £100 each ) in 1603 . |
| 4 | From late 1813 trade improved , and it was for a time in 1814 brisk again . |
| 5 | The SPD seemed to have compromised its principles in joining the ‘ Kiesebrandt ’ coalition and this was at a time of growing questioning of capitalist society by intellectuals , students and radical politicians . |