Example sentences of "about the [adj] time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decision needs to be reached about the best time in the day to hold the event . |
| 2 | I could n't spell and about the only time in your life you 're not allowed to use a dictionary is in an English ‘ O ’ level exam . ’ |
| 3 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 4 | I guess so , it seems so , Graham , oh , he 's making people redundant , he 's gone off , it 's about the third time in three weeks take a day playing golf . |
| 5 | About the same time in Iowa , a Quaker farmer called Jesse Hiatt discovered a sucker sprouting from the roots of a dead tree . |
| 6 | All these ideas were incorporated into the theory of plate tectonics which was more or less separately developed by a number of workers at about the same time in the late 1960s . |