Example sentences of "about [art] [adj] time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people travel too far to work , at about the same time every day . |
| 2 | About the same time a series of unsolved murders of prostitutes in that city came to an end . |
| 3 | At the end of 1777 de Broglie submitted to King Louis XVI an improved version of the proposals he had drafted 12 years before while at about the same time a new figure appeared on the scene , the 39-year-old Edward Dumouriez , an able army officer who had caught the eye of the king and been appointed Commandant of Cherbourg . |
| 4 | And about the same time a mystery blaze broke out at Madame Tussaud 's , another of the capitals major tourist attractions . |
| 5 | ‘ Round about the same time a Panamanian registered cargo ship by the name of the Ramsland , chartered by the same gang who had organized the Valhalla , put into Boston harbour and was promptly seized by the United States Coast Guard . |
| 6 | At about the same time a consortium of West European banks refused to grant Cuba the credits it had requested , apparently as a result of US pressure . |
| 7 | About the same time a papal envoy , Egidius , was despatched to gain news , followed by Cardinal Guido of Preneste , the pope 's personal representative . |
| 8 | Thus in 1506 the Spanish representative in Venice was succeeded by his son , who presented to the doge on the day after his father 's death credentials prepared in advance ; and when about the same time a French ambassador to Hungary died , his duties immediately passed to his nephew , who completed the work of the embassy . |
| 9 | At about the same time an advance party from the RMP detachment of ten volunteer ‘ redcaps ’ leave for a short journey to Thorey Island , where their company has planned a military skills training weekend . |
| 10 | At about the same time the barons of Bedfordshire paid £200 ‘ for the disafforestment of that part of Bedfordshire which Henry I first afforested ’ — a definition which was to be the subject of future contention . |
| 11 | At about the same time the red blotches on her Louisa 's face also disappeared — which the doctor put down to coincidence . |
| 12 | At about the same time the French monk Abbo of Fleury was writing about the death of another English leader who had fallen at the hands of the Danes : Edmund , king of the East Angles , who had been killed in 869 . |
| 13 | At about the same time the aliens department of the Home Office took on extra staff and moved to Cleveland House on Thorney Street . |
| 14 | At about the same time the Party was attempting to make contact with him and finally did so in the persons of two of its eventually outstanding members , Vo Nguyen Giap and Pham Van Dong . |
| 15 | At about the same time the papers began to acknowledge the existence of the mercato nero , the black market , in bread , butter , pasta and other rationed goods ( it had always flourished , especially in the Po valley ) . |
| 16 | A dépot des archives was set up in 1688 ; while the Marquis de Torcy ( Louis 's last Foreign Minister ) had begun about the same time the creation of a rudimentary Press bureau . |
| 17 | About the same time the lawyers ' organisation , JUSTICE , published a report that sentence bargaining was abhorrent per se , because many persons might come under pressure to plead guilty when they ought not to do so . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , in the clubhouse bar , the young Turks just off the course compared scores and swings and the older members sipped ruminative gins and tonic and waxed nostalgic about the last time the Amateur was played on their course . |