Example sentences of "in [adj] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Truman owed a personal debt of loyalty to Louis Johnson , who had served as treasurer of Truman 's re-election committee in 1948 at a time when most commentators had consigned the President to ignominious defeat at the hands of Governor Dewey . |
| 2 | ‘ It is a measure of the level of the people with which he was dealing , in that at a time when he thought he might be a witness in another case , he was assaulted rendering him unconscious and his house was the subject of an arson attack . ’ |
| 3 | The last Briton to hold the world mile record , WG George in 1886 with a time of 4min 12 ¾sec , was at Motspur Park on August 28 to watch Wooderson 's attempt . |
| 4 | Russell was taken up in this for a time , he even wrote wonderful piece on the foundations of geometry couched in erm a sort of vaguely dialectical form , which in later life he erm pronounced as being complete rubbish . |
| 5 | The Widdicombe Committee was appointed in 1985 at a time of high political controversy about the activities of certain local authorities . |
| 6 | She first went to Vietnam in 1985 at a time when the country was still much more closed to journalists than it is now , full of enthusiasm that she was finally fulfilling a long-time ambition . |
| 7 | Known as mamluks ( an Arabic term meaning " owned " ) this army raised in the slave markets of the Caucasus and beyond , took over power in 1250 at a time of Mongol threat from the east . |
| 8 | The breed was recognised in 1853 at a time when Tyssandier d'Escours did much to improve it , partly by using the red Devon which , in turn , is now being boosted with Salers blood . |
| 9 | Beveridge had presented his report in 1942 at a time when it was overwhelmingly agreed that there should be no return to the conditions of the 1930s . |
| 10 | She had , by then , been with Virgin for six years , and brought the company much success , in particular during a time of economic crisis for Virgin . |
| 11 | Ledingham 's time was 92.00 ahead of Connors on 96.63 and himself on Garraun in third with a time of 98.54 . |