Example sentences of "world at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In our village , as in many villages in the world at that time , there was a souvenir shop , ’ one story goes . |
| 2 | This was a figure unmatched anywhere else in the world at that time ( Martin , 1975 ) . |
| 3 | " Now King Darzin ruled over the biggest and richest of the animal cities in the world at that time . |
| 4 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 5 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 6 | The Carboniferous is popularly known as the ‘ Age of Amphibians ’ , and it is true that the amphibians reached a dominance in the vertebrate world at this time which they never again equalled . |
| 7 | Moreover , the Swiss watchmakers were the best equipped in the world at this time to appreciate its sophistication . |
| 8 | He had a passionate love of music and in another world at another time might have made a fine musician , but there , held in that place at that moment , there were other plans , other duties , other paths . |