Example sentences of "just [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just that the hospital do n't want you to have any visitors — not just for the time being . |
| 2 | To the people from the people who 've gone home ob we hope this 'll only be for a few days and some have gone er to other homes just for the time being . |
| 3 | All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death . |
| 4 | Early Viennese modernism at the time and just after the time of the Secession of 1898 , parallel to the rise of the mass popular political movements , challenged this habitus of the Bürgertum from ‘ below ’ . |
| 5 | Because the machine was so busy , just after the time he introduced it , the line was never available to do all the checks that were on that and it and Roland 's got them in a file there |
| 6 | It comes just in the time for Christmas and fund raisers are sure it 'll be a popular stocking-filler . |
| 7 | I was particularly impressed by the way you managed to organise all the available services so efficiently — just at the time when we were beginning to wonder how we 'd manage . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But think when they came here — just at the time Liam Shakespeare disappeared — and — ‘ |
| 9 | To break up the Union now would diminish our influence for good in the world , just at the time when it is most needed . |
| 10 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 11 | So just at the time when that first vital relationship between parent and child is in its most tenuous stages ‘ external tensions and difficulties are most likely to take their toll and may cause the baby to become fractious and the parent to be over-tired and irritable . |
| 12 | The public infrastructure founded years ago when we felt rich patently does not deliver a quality of service we think we deserve — just at the time we realise we are not as rich as we thought . |
| 13 | The success of Alain Aspect 's team in confirming experimentally one of the more subtle predictions of the theory ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 17 ) came just at the time when , in an echo of the great days of J. G. Crowther , The Guardian published Terry Clark 's report of an experiment in which a macroscopic object can be made to behave , in some respects , like a single quantum ‘ particle ’ , and when these weighty tomes arrived for review . |
| 14 | Unless parents are on their guard , they may often give the impression that they have withdrawn love and acceptance , just at the time when both are most needed . |
| 15 | Moreover , just at the time when the tape medium is losing its prime hold on the marketplace , the manufacturing technology has been vastly improved so that the best cassettes can now give aural satisfaction , even on the most demanding domestic equipment . |
| 16 | On the assumption that the equipment a hundred years ago was not as efficient at finding gold as today 's modern machinery , he hired some plant and employed a geologist and found a lot of gold in those old spoil heaps — just at the time gold rose in value on the world markets . |
| 17 | In accountancy , for example , by the time you 've done your training and spent some years establishing yourself , you then have your children just at the time when you 're supposed to be going all out for partnership . |
| 18 | Such socialising had significance not just at the time but for the future , for table-fellowship was , in Jesus ' thinking , an anticipation of that great feast which will mark the consummation of the Kingdom . |
| 19 | This idea is not very palatable : why should the Sun be anomalous just at the time that we start to search for neutrinos ? |
| 20 | He wrote just at the time when English was becoming an established literary language and with a felicity which later caused most of his translation — perhaps 75 per cent — to be retained in the King James Bible , the authorised version for 300 years . |
| 21 | It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories . |
| 22 | Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title , but it is interesting that the visit occurred just at the time when Lord Northampton sought to have the ownership dispute heard by the Swiss courts . |
| 23 | There was thus a real danger , not of impoverishment , but of the closing of the gap between princes and other lesser lords , just at the time when display and liberality were increasingly important elements in princely political armouries . |
| 24 | The reductions in university places , just at the time when girls are beginning to gain something like equal access , may have the effect of decreasing the absolute numbers of girls in universities even if they manage to catch up with boys proportionally . |
| 25 | For the first time population could increase with a declining grain price and a less than commensurate food output , subsisting on grain imports paid for by manufactures ; ‘ It is one of the most striking ironies of intellectual history that Malthus should have fashioned his analysis just at the time when it was about to cease to be applicable to the country in which he lived ’ ( Wrigley 1986 ) . |
| 26 | He himself had founded this in honour of St Thomas of Canterbury , at whose tomb Henry II was doing penance just at the time of William 's capture at Alnwick . |
| 27 | Just at the time when , in Rome , Pope Alexander III was preparing to canonize Thomas Becket it seemed that the prestige of Becket 's old opponent was reaching still greater heights . |
| 28 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 29 | Yes and erm I came down here erm just at the time I was becoming a nun thirty thirty odd years ago . |
| 30 | It should come as no surprise that just at the time when manufacturers were becoming cautious in their claims about what their creams could do , a pharmaceutical superstar in the form of Retin-A burst into the firmament . |