Example sentences of "years [prep] [art] time [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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1 | But during the two years between the time when the book was first mooted and its publication in 1982 , the company had transformed itself and the book did not reflect the grander style of living which Laura was now espousing . |
2 | ‘ It 's been terrible watching the change in this country over the past 20 years from a time when the consensus was that the public good was what mattered , to today when people only care about shopping . |
3 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |
4 | In matters of this kind we are often considering a span of 15–20 years from the time when it is first apparent that an old person can not ‘ carry on as before ’ to the time of death . |
5 | Claims for restitution have to be made however ( a ) within three years from the time when the claimant knew or ought reasonably to have known of the location , or the identity of the possessor of the object , and ( b ) in any case within a period of thirty years from the time of the theft . |
6 | Where any power to revoke or determine can not be exercised within six years from the time when any particular property first becomes comprised in the settlement , the subsection does not apply to income arising under the settlement from that property , or from property representing that property , so long as the power can not be exercised . |
7 | A useful starting point is to go back twenty years to a time when computers were still huge , unfriendly devices demanding air-conditioned environments and costing millions . |
8 | The first dates back two and a half thousand years to the time when the Persians were at war with the Egyptians . |
9 | The important thing that we must do is look ahead 20 years to the time when those of us who are , I hope , still active in politics will be asked difficult questions . |
10 | Despite the jokes about it , the Bishop 's Castle Railway served the town and the district well for seventy years at a time when transport ( rapid by the standards of the day ) was becoming ever more important . |