Example sentences of "at [det] time [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The context of a growing rift at that time between trade unions and the Ministry of Labour was not mentioned . |
| 2 | Getting to the Health Centre was a tedious business involving a bus and a clanking ride for a few stops on the underground and Erika was glad to find her way to it , jammed among the usual blocks of flats , although at that time of night they had rather a festive air with every window lighted . |
| 3 | Worrying about your problems , which seem larger than life at that time of night , is hard to resist . |
| 4 | On relating the story to Mr Bailey , the man asked whether a train service was running at that time of night . |
| 5 | This highway , the main link between Moscow and St Petersburg , is one of the busiest in Russia , and the traffic was heavy even at that time of night . |
| 6 | They were very surprised to see a young girl alone at that time of night . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you think it would be sensible for a woman to go at that time of night into the house of an unmarried man ? ’ she asked . |
| 8 | And at the time , I mean it 's half past nine , all work had stopped , mostly at that time of night anyway . |
| 9 | They are said to have explained that they were looking for the conductor to buy their tickets as Stonehouse station did not sell tickets at that time of night . |
| 10 | Mrs Jarvie said that apart from the sleeper , freight trains carrying petroleum products from Grangemouth used the line at that time of night , after midnight . |
| 11 | At that time of night ? |
| 12 | No , not at that time of night . |
| 13 | At that time of year there were few people about and he sat at a table by himself . |
| 14 | Any given rise in unemployment in the winter months , therefore , can only be shown to be significant if it can be demonstrated that the rise is over and above that which is normally expected at that time of year . |
| 15 | Winter was closing in fast over Europe and , as always at that time of year , he was travelling south to avoid the worst of the weather . |
| 16 | He had forgotten how humid it could get in Beirut at that time of year . |
| 17 | With my cousin Emka , I wandered through the oak woods gathering wild flowers — the cyclamens in which the Kras is so abundant at that time of year . |
| 18 | At that time of year the sun was so low that it shone directly into the livingroom during the whole of its brief traverse of the horizon . |
| 19 | Later , however , Elspeth and her colleagues were upset at the prospect of 16-ton lorries , with a height of 20 feet when fully raised for tipping , descending on a country lane teeming , at that time of year , with bird and insect life . |
| 20 | At that time of year the weather should be quite warm and dry , but you 'll need a jersey , windproofs , and a pair of long trousers , plus a summer-season sleeping bag or similar . |
| 21 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 22 | The island 's usually left to the gulls at that time of year . ’ |
| 23 | Surprisingly there was still no organised training for new entries to the cutters but at that time of course there were still plenty of ex-service personnel available . |
| 24 | and erm at that time of course when we got to that sort of crisis we erm had to send a memo over to the er Clerk of the Council 's Department er . |
| 25 | but I said that you know eighteen might be a push but I would n't be surprised if we got twelve or fourteen at that time of course we had n't actually had any education events cos the one that we scheduled has been cancelled so I was perhaps a bit naive about how many people actually turn out to these things |
| 26 | In all the yelling and argument that followed Jo concluded that Andy the gardener was a starfucker in the literal sense of the term , for what else could her mother have been doing in the pool house at that time of day and why else would she have over-reacted the way she did ? |
| 27 | Make sure , too , it is a feeding roll you are seeing and not any other kind of activity — though it is unlikely to be anything other than a feeding roll at that time of day . |
| 28 | Although I was not sure what ‘ the lot ’ meant , I was sure that something big was expected , for even Matron was in a hurry as she went to her office , at that time of day too ! |
| 29 | The fact that community nurses all over the country are tearing around between 7.30 and 9.30 in the morning giving one dose of insulin after another is almost always dictated by the needs of each client to receive insulin at that time of day . |
| 30 | He knew at once why she was doing so now ; he knew nothing else could have made her argue with people on the farmhouse stairs at that time of day . |