Example sentences of "up at a time " in BNC.
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1 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
2 | Brought up at a time when military aircraft would have seemed a fantasy , he later became an expert on one of the most complicated of signal functions , air-land co-operation . |
3 | I was fortunate to grow up at a time when imperial measurements were generally used , but science was special in being both imperial and metric . |
4 | The wash down would be done with one leg up at a time and an impatient queue waiting behind . |
5 | Do n't try to give up at a time when you are already stressed . |
6 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
7 | Anyway he came up to London , she went to London to be a nanny to this woman with three kids like , you know , two babies and a an older one and she said he came up at a time , he said , sorry , you know , got ta finish he 's got this girl pregnant ! |