Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They traded in spices , wool , silk and money at a time when Augsburg and Ingolstadt lay on the main trade route from the Mediterranean to the Baltic . |
| 2 | Inevitably there were problems of intra- and inter-institutional conflict and jealousies at a time when three tiers of administration — the city , the county and central government — were all involved . |
| 3 | And now comes the Armonk bombshell : it is committed to IBM 's RS/6000 and PowerPC at a time when everything that bears the IBM name has overnight become tainted . |
| 4 | Now what we 've got here , if you look at the F T for ten thousand in force policies , we 've got a significant jump in January and February at a time when our budget posting was down below budget . |
| 5 | To the Soviet mind , the ‘ bourgeois ’ view of war as a breakdown of normality , and peace as a time of cooperation and goodwill , is quixotic . |
| 6 | Opposition groups dismissed the constitutional changes as a device to gain Western aid and approval at a time of economic crisis . |
| 7 | The Reformation came to Slovenia and Croatia at a time when the Turkish threat was at its height . |
| 8 | The Milanese used the event to reset watches and clocks at a time when there was no acceptable absolute measure of time . |
| 9 | There were also teachers in the sample who were grappling with several complex long-term and short-term schedules and forecasts at a time , and others whose only apparent work plan was to set up a succession of ad hoc activities with little long-term coherence or progression . |
| 10 | We evidently process such sequences clause and phrase at a time . |
| 11 | He has given me nothing but total loyalty and respect at a time when I needed it most . |
| 12 | In 1956 , the French critic Bernard Gavoty published a monograph on Karajan that was much preoccupied with Karajan 's temperament and musicianship at a time when he was being increasingly regarded more as an ambitious virtuoso superstar than as a totally dedicated musician . |
| 13 | It is easy to make lasting judgements based on impressions and recollections from a time when things were different . |
| 14 | Professor Jack Shaw , the SHEFC 's chairman , said the system for allocating funds was meant to be predictable and would allow clear budgeting and stability at a time when student numbers have been growing rapidly , some fee levels have been cut sharply , and large efficiency gains expected . |
| 15 | This all reflects the important part that political organizations played in the Edwardian era , for when politicians needed means of communication and organization in a time of crisis it was to the parties rather than to the state that they turned for the machinery and the expertise ; it was not to be the same in 1939 , with consequent effects on the state of the local parties by 1945 . |
| 16 | Recession has sapped demand throughout Europe and America at a time when stocks were already high after the good years of 1988–90 . |
| 17 | it was touch and go for a time and when Leicester hit back with an equaliser from Whitlow a draw seemed the best they could hope for … |
| 18 | The 1970s saw a brief vogue of denying the referentiality of language , when the jargon of la nouvelle critique was earnestly borrowed from Paris by advanced spirits , and novels for a time were called texts and denied social significance . |