Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Milanese used the event to reset watches and clocks at a time when there was no acceptable absolute measure of time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is easy to make lasting judgements based on impressions and recollections from a time when things were different . |
| 5 | 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 . |