Example sentences of "about the [det] time the " in BNC.
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1 | At about the same time the barons of Bedfordshire paid £200 ‘ for the disafforestment of that part of Bedfordshire which Henry I first afforested ’ — a definition which was to be the subject of future contention . |
2 | At about the same time the red blotches on her Louisa 's face also disappeared — which the doctor put down to coincidence . |
3 | At about the same time the French monk Abbo of Fleury was writing about the death of another English leader who had fallen at the hands of the Danes : Edmund , king of the East Angles , who had been killed in 869 . |
4 | At about the same time the aliens department of the Home Office took on extra staff and moved to Cleveland House on Thorney Street . |
5 | At about the same time the Party was attempting to make contact with him and finally did so in the persons of two of its eventually outstanding members , Vo Nguyen Giap and Pham Van Dong . |
6 | At about the same time the papers began to acknowledge the existence of the mercato nero , the black market , in bread , butter , pasta and other rationed goods ( it had always flourished , especially in the Po valley ) . |
7 | A dépot des archives was set up in 1688 ; while the Marquis de Torcy ( Louis 's last Foreign Minister ) had begun about the same time the creation of a rudimentary Press bureau . |
8 | About the same time the lawyers ' organisation , JUSTICE , published a report that sentence bargaining was abhorrent per se , because many persons might come under pressure to plead guilty when they ought not to do so . |