Example sentences of "even at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , even at the time it was only a sign . |
| 2 | In respect of the more anglicised parts of Wales , such as the Vale of Glamorgan , this statement was probably inaccurate even at the time of writing . |
| 3 | In the world of education and in the year of the Woods Hole conference , Britain had to content itself with the Crowther Report , which , even at the time of its publication and even more plainly in retrospect , reads more like an epitaph than a prophecy . |
| 4 | Changes of character brought about by the fluctuation of material conditions were so marked that they were noticeable even at the time from within the camp . |
| 5 | Even at the time it seemed to me that it was pointless to be vindictive or even to allot responsibility for such happenings . |
| 6 | It said that inherently bad foundations and faulty construction meant that the cost of maintaining the old building for any length of time ‘ must be necessarily large ’ , and even at the time of his examination the building was undergoing further repairs . |
| 7 | But even at the time there were words of caution from those involved in the project . |
| 8 | DECIDEDLY BIZARRE even at the time , every year further away from the Red Menace makes this charred black farce seem weirder still . |
| 9 | In the U.S.A. even at the time of President Lincoln about 1860 there was serious debate as to whether the economy should remain agricultural or whether there should be a positive attempt to develop manufacturing . |
| 10 | Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' . |
| 11 | None the less , even at the time of the Boer War ( 1899–1902 ) about 38 per cent of recruits to the army were rejected as undersized or unfit , especially that growing proportion that lived in cities ( Oddy 1982 ) . |
| 12 | Even at the time of his admission and immediately prior to surgery when he has been given a great deal of information , his overriding concern is how he will cope with a stoma and whether he will be able to manage at home . |
| 13 | Even at the time that the White Paper was being issued in 1972 , it was becoming clear that the rapidly declining birth rate would have very serious repercussions for the colleges of education ; however , it was not until the decline began to steepen in the mid-1970s that the full implications were publicly announced by the DES . |
| 14 | Indeed , even at the time of the negotiations which led up to the SEA the European Communities ( EC ) Commission ( the Civil Service which administers the communities from Brussels ) estimated that in excess of 300 measures remained to be adopted before the problem of what came to be called ‘ non-Europe ’ could be said to have been fully addressed . |
| 15 | Even at the time the study group that was planning the establishment of the Committee for Arts and Social Studies met in April 1965 there were proposals waiting to be processed in business studies , languages , sociology , psychology , administration , economics , law and ‘ combined subjects ’ , with business studies leading the field in both honours and ordinary degree course proposals by a wide margin . |
| 16 | Before the endoscopic era , the diagnosis was rarely made before operation or even at the time of operation and recurrent haemorrhage with a fatal outcome was common . |
| 17 | Even at the time when Dalby was taken to represent the law , it was not quite true to say that the act had to be directed at the victim , since the doctrine of transferred malice applies . |
| 18 | Even at the time of Chlothar 's death the issue of the succession seems to have been undecided . |
| 19 | Even , well , almost even at the time when this last translation was doing , but certainly the time the bible was written . |
| 20 | So the man was happy enough and even at the time , he realized that er it was n't this lad 's ch er mm fault entirely , because the reason he tripped was cos the carpet was loose on top of the stairs . |