Example sentences of "though [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cutting off the flow of refugees did not solve the financial problem , though for a time the government acted on the assumption that the refugee organisations could now look after themselves . |
| 2 | A North-South cold war formula is unlikely to command the same kind of broad domestic support , even though for the time being , the parties of the Left are supporting the war , at least in the United States and Western Europe . |
| 3 | For some countries , like Greece , Portugal and Ireland , no doubt there will continue to be largesse to be gained from her , though for the time being even this is likely to be hard to come by , as Germany piles money into her eastern territory and focuses much of the rest of her financial attentions on her former Communist neighbours . |
| 4 | ‘ Things have turned out all right for them , though at the time I felt like you , and thought they ought to have stayed till eighteen , as I did , and the two elder ones did . |
| 5 | A lot of couples involved with our singles ministry have taken the challenge of ‘ hands-off ’ courting and have since thanked us for it , even though at the time they wondered if they could not get by with something a bit less conservative . |
| 6 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 7 | One significant , though at the time little noticed , change in voting was the swing to the Democrats in the big cities . |
| 8 | He explained about how the philosophy of Brehon O'Hennessy had remained with him , even though at the time Brehon O'Hennessy had seemed to everyone to be a nutter . |
| 9 | " I think I learnt a few things , " laughs Eva though at the time it must have been extremely painful for the girl who had " excelled at everything " . |
| 10 | Though at the time , ’ she added with a wry shake of her head , ‘ it was something of a novelty to be accused of being a criminal . ’ |
| 11 | tenant of area of sea has right to sue for nuisance where pollution killed larvae even though at the time they were killed , tenant had not acquired a proprietary right of action . |
| 12 | Thus if the goods are damaged or stolen because of his negligence he will have to bear the loss even though at the time he was not the owner . |
| 13 | Though at the time parental influence by her former Prime Minister father was denied , an article in the newly issued 1992 Transactions of Anglesey Antiquarian Society claims this was not so . |
| 14 | Inevitably less time could be spent by the researchers in doing this on behalf of the control samples ; though by the time of the second and third assessments , the circumstances of , and services received by both action and control sample members were well known both to researchers and development officers . |
| 15 | Their joint commissions reached well over a hundred , and though by the time the Dolls ' House was created , Miss Jekyll was nearly eighty and practically blind , being asked to design the garden gave her immense satisfaction , and has left us with an unaltered glimpse of this period of England 's gardening history . |
| 16 | The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined . |
| 17 | She was near the east bank of the River , five hundred paces south of the town , lying on a flat white rock where the crocodiles could not get her , though by the time she was discovered by a Medjay patrol at the sixth hour of day when the sun was at its highest , the vultures had eaten her eyes and part of her face , and the flies were so glutted that they could not leave the feast unless they were picked off . |
| 18 | In Brazil , there came a romanticism of Indian life , though by the time of the establishment of the Republic in 1889 , they had few rights and the rubber boom brought entrepreneurs to the uppermost headwaters of the Amazon followed by railways and telegraph lines . |