Example sentences of "at [prep] this time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year at about this time it produced the admirable Victorian Newcastle painter Ralph Hedley ; this winter it is showing in ‘ A Romance with the North East ’ Rober and Isa ( Thompson ) Jobling , who lived and worked there until the 1920s producing powerful and poetic images of its countryside coast and people . |
| 2 | At about this time I was able to discard the dread of the " chop " from Halton and a balm to my ego was a gain in my outdoor activities , particularly in cross-country and track , I felt very comfortable at the workshops , I also adored the evening sessions at school when we were lectured by such great names of the day as Churchill , Trenchard , Beaverbrook , General Smuts , a host of politicians , and near our own held , such fine names in aviation as Handley Page and others ; splendid names in their day . |
| 3 | At about this time he acquired the churches of Brightwalton and Melton Mowbray , gifts from the monks of Battle and Lewes . |
| 4 | At about this time he returned to Courthill to assist his father , and so he was able to use all the resources of the smithy to make the kind of machine that was in his mind . |
| 5 | At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination . |