Example sentences of "but [prep] that time [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I recently went to Ireland , and my visit was the headline news story in every Irish newspaper , but during that time there was not a single column inch devoted to it in the English press , whereas it was very prominently reported in the European press . |
2 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
3 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
4 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
5 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
6 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
7 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
8 | But in that time he was credited with the discovery of three rarities the spring gentian , the mountain avens and the bog orchid , which was then lost again and only recently rediscovered . |
9 | After that we use ordinary physics that we know and love and understand , but before that time we 're working with uncertain physics and uncertain cosmology . |
10 | But before that time I guess father did n't leave the island . |
11 | Prior to independence in 1975 Angola was the world 's fourth-largest coffee exporter , but since that time there had been a dramatic drop in production . |
12 | Yeah , but at that time we were s trying to speed back to York |
13 | ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with . |
14 | But at that time he was fully occupied with BAT . |
15 | Vanbrugh was appointed as designer but at that time he is not known to have had any architectural experience ; his career had until then been a military one . |
16 | ‘ Nowadays , David might reasonably be thought a part of this , but at that time he too seemed to be running out of steam . |
17 | Today there 's not much of a problem , but at that time it was a little more troublesome and there was nobody doing anything about it . |
18 | But at that time it was n't what you 'd call modern in so far as you had n't got hot water from a sort of gas fir Electric heating . |
19 | In fact a lot was happening in my world , but at that time I was n't at all aware of it . |
20 | I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him . |
21 | The choice of the latter led Leavis , to whom I sent the paper later , to expostulate , but at that time I thought that Read was heading for an eminence which , at least as a creative writer , he never attained . |
22 | In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the undoubted paranoia of the fanatical adherent of solar monotheism in ancient Egypt , the Pharaoh Akhenaten ( alias Amenhotep IV ) , but at that time I was unable to demonstrate how such paranoid tendencies were related to the evolution of cultivating societies . |
23 | But at that time she herself had been determined to find out all there was to know . |
24 | Now ‘ I 've Got My Mojo Working ’ does n't go down with everyone , but at that time there were a few people around who did like that kind of stuff , and we were hopefully appealing to them . ’ |
25 | A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England . |
26 | Wicked but by that time we felt we deserved it . |
27 | But by that time she had married a car-worker from Cowley , was four months ' pregnant , and was eventually to become the mother of four lovely children — three girls and one boy . |
28 | Eventually he became the school 's headmaster but by that time his rather late marriage had somewhat tamed this fiery individual . |
29 | I really thought I could n't bear not to at least understand what he was going through , but by that time my opinion was totally irrelevant — not wanted — added to which , I 'm not easy to get along with anyway because I 'm not a ‘ yes-man ’ . |
30 | But by that time there had been two centuries of strife between Empire and Papacy and the Empire no longer had any special connection to the City of Rome . |