Example sentences of "of [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shares in Pentos fell by an alarming 20% last week after the group issued warnings that pretax profits for 1992 would be ‘ significantly below ’ market expectations and that its final dividend would be reviewed ‘ in the light of trading at the time of the preliminary announcement in March ’ . |
| 2 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |
| 3 | Such excursions spelled glamour and excitement for Fergie , something that the duke seemed incapable of providing at the time . |
| 4 | There was , indeed , a certain amount of questioning at the time of dishonest business practices and the morality of trade , although this intemperate radicalism was but a marginal force in the ensuing debates on the criminal question . |
| 5 | But can I just answer that because hopefully we do we do try to listen and we try to give you what information you 're capable of taking at the time . |
| 6 | They were destroying something we dreamed of owning and playing but had no prospect of affording at the time . |
| 7 | This structure of feeling is produced by a particular rhetorical device , providing an image which resonates with an unstated discourse about ‘ waves of black immigration swamping the British way of life ’ — a theme which Thatcherism was in the process of popularizing at the time . |