Example sentences of "even at [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | A squeeze on public spending , adoption of money supply targets , privatization ( sale of BP shares in 1976 ) , and the priority accorded to fighting inflation , even at a time of historically high unemployment , were all in place under Mr Callaghan . |
2 | ‘ They were so well paid too , that even at a time of servant shortage people were queuing up to work there . |
3 | Overall the cost of a funeral often comes as a big shock to people and the vicar 's fees , peripheral as they are to the main bill , come in for lots of cynical comments like ‘ Even at a time like this , the church is making money . ’ |
4 | In respect of the more anglicised parts of Wales , such as the Vale of Glamorgan , this statement was probably inaccurate even at the time of writing . |
5 | In the world of education and in the year of the Woods Hole conference , Britain had to content itself with the Crowther Report , which , even at the time of its publication and even more plainly in retrospect , reads more like an epitaph than a prophecy . |
6 | It said that inherently bad foundations and faulty construction meant that the cost of maintaining the old building for any length of time ‘ must be necessarily large ’ , and even at the time of his examination the building was undergoing further repairs . |
7 | In the U.S.A. even at the time of President Lincoln about 1860 there was serious debate as to whether the economy should remain agricultural or whether there should be a positive attempt to develop manufacturing . |
8 | None the less , even at the time of the Boer War ( 1899–1902 ) about 38 per cent of recruits to the army were rejected as undersized or unfit , especially that growing proportion that lived in cities ( Oddy 1982 ) . |
9 | Even at the time of his admission and immediately prior to surgery when he has been given a great deal of information , his overriding concern is how he will cope with a stoma and whether he will be able to manage at home . |
10 | Indeed , even at the time of the negotiations which led up to the SEA the European Communities ( EC ) Commission ( the Civil Service which administers the communities from Brussels ) estimated that in excess of 300 measures remained to be adopted before the problem of what came to be called ‘ non-Europe ’ could be said to have been fully addressed . |
11 | Before the endoscopic era , the diagnosis was rarely made before operation or even at the time of operation and recurrent haemorrhage with a fatal outcome was common . |
12 | Even at the time of Chlothar 's death the issue of the succession seems to have been undecided . |
13 | Changes of character brought about by the fluctuation of material conditions were so marked that they were noticeable even at the time from within the camp . |