Example sentences of "but [prep] that time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 The training lasted only four months , but during that time the young mother was only able to spend one precious afternoon a week with her babies .
5 But during that time when things were going well , he managed it .
6 But throughout that time one note — as discordant as heavy metal feedback — has been constant , that of Gianni Versace .
7 I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre .
8 The North 's share of the world 's energy consumption was expected to decrease from around 70 per cent to 60 per cent by 2020 , but in that time the proportion of the global population living in the South would have grown from 75 per cent to 80 per cent .
9 Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second .
10 It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’
11 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 .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 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 .
14 Those marks are no more than a few weeks old , that 's certain , but within that time no one knows when they were made .
15 But before that time I guess father did n't leave the island .
16 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 .
17 From six , so if you give us data every week for the next six months , and as I say , in six months ' time , we 'll then be working on actuals , but until that time , we 'll work on company averages for you , so that you 've got a plan to work to .
18 Little of his work of the next three years is known , but from that time until 1814 he produced much of his best drawing in pencil and watercolours .
19 My own ferreting campaigns begin in October but from that time onward to the end of the game-shooting season I am limited to outside hedgerows and warrens and burrows well away from the standing crops of game cover and the woods .
20 I I ca n't be sure where I got the information from but from that time until the end of my shift at ten P M I was gleaning information from all different directions about the and the connection .
21 But since that time British manufacturing has been on a strengthening long-term trend . ’
22 But since that time , his name has grown in stature and now represents a multi-million pound business the globe .
23 The two 1973 elections , i.e. for Local Government as well as the Assembly , were held immediately after the advertising campaign and the electorate could concentrate on one method of voting , but since that time two Westminster elections were conducted by means of the X-vote , and it is possible that some voters may have been confused .
24 Earlier lava flows , before the coming of man , date back a million years , but since that time the Colorado River has only cut down about 50 feet .
25 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 .
26 But at that time he was fully occupied with BAT .
27 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 .
28 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 . ’
29 I would often hear from my assistant who now looks after Cher , but at that time was delegated to looking after me , and she would say that she 'd just come back from the MainMan offices and the main office door was closed into DeFries 's inner sanctum and there were raised voices between him and David in there .
30 I had a friend , she now manages the Eurythmics with her husband , but at that time , none of us needed to be in such luxury but none of us said no if it was offered and DeFries always observed the Noel Coward code and said , ‘ You should travel through life first class . ’
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