Example sentences of "were [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | There were proposals about the time of Nationalisation , when the Regional Boundaries were being drawn up . |
2 | There was also a growing market for books as literacy increased , though there was not yet universal schooling : the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , the Mechanics Institutes and the so-called March of Mind were features of the time leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832 , and indicating a market for non-fiction . |
3 | The Malthusian of June 1914 estimated that 100,000 women a year took drugs to induce miscarriage , and there were suggestions at the time that there were few mothers of large families who had not attempted abortion . |
4 | Once or twice he 's spotted guys who were news at the time . |
5 | They were toddlers at the time of Watergate , not yet 10 when Mrs Thatcher came to power , Nato decided to introduce cruise and Pershing missiles and the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan . |
6 | The Labour Government was not prepared to let those who were pensioners at the time die in poverty , while awaiting the gradual implementation of a new scheme . |
7 | There was a special dispensation given to her to attend and in fact there were photographs at the time with the Queen with her . |