Example sentences of "at [adv] that " in BNC.

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31 At about that time , plastics was one of two ICI divisions that had been selected to come under the scrutiny of McKinsey , the famous management consulting group .
32 Chiswick , at about that time , was enjoying its reputation as a healthy environment which one resident , Dr. W. Rose recommended to many people including Thomas Bentley , the partner to Josiah Wedgwood , and the manager of that famous Staffordware depot at Chelsea .
33 He was instrumental in developing Oxford and Cambridge Roads — both named after the Universities that held their annual river boat race on the River Thames into the Chiswick area — also Harvard Road , which was named after the American University who rowed against Oxford and Cambridge , at about that time , He extended his development to the other side of Chiswick High Road , including Thorney Hedge Road and Silver Crescent , Mr Tomlinson built houses in other areas close by , including Clarence Road , off Wellesley Road , and his son , Richard , became an architect and was involved in the building of the Gunnersbury Baptist Church in Wellesley Road .
34 At about that time the river was also dammed to form the mill pond , the Dickler having previously been used directly .
35 At about that time , a meeting allegedly took place between Nicholson , Hofmann and another of Hofmann 's associates , Henry Medlock , at which it was suggested that arsenic acid should be tried as an oxidising agent .
36 But at about that time that Barnes was beginning an afternoon of goal-kicking misery by bouncing the conversion attempt off an upright , Ubogu was laying in midfield , clutching his head .
37 The blurring of boundaries , which took place at about that time , had created such anomalies as a householder having an Essex postal address while paying his rates to Suffolk County Council .
38 It was at about that time that I wrote a paper entitled — I hoped provocatively — ‘ What should a biochemistry of learning and memory be about ? ’
39 At about that time his father died and the family moved to Glasgow ; soon afterwards Robertson decided to become an engineer .
40 ‘ Whoever it was could have made a mistake over the night ; I was out at about that time on Saturday night . ’
41 At about that time , Kurds in Iraq , hoping perhaps to emulate the positive side of what had been achieved over the border , rose in revolt .
42 At about that time a number of hotel-schools who had been involved in looking at accreditation with EURHODIP [ a group which has developed a European hotel diploma ] had formed the European Foundation for the Accreditation of Hotelschool Programmes [ EFAH ] .
43 At about that time , Ken asked Codron if he had anything for him .
44 ‘ It would be a bargain at twice that price . ’
45 A Tarvarian army was capable of moving at between forty and fifty kilometres per hour , and individual units riding fast could move at twice that rate .
46 It was as though he 'd known she 'd appear at precisely that moment with precisely that eager expression on her face .
47 What would have happened had I not arrived at the door at precisely that juncture , I can not imagine .
48 Young Thomas Carter was woken again at 4.30am that morning by his father .
49 At 9pm that night , the parents of Baby One discovered their daughter 's ankle tag had the wrong surname .
50 At least that was a decision .
51 ‘ Hum , ’ said Jay , at least that way you do n't get your heart broken .
52 At least that way I can stop thinking , words bloody words . ’
53 At least that is what it should be like .
54 At least that was the case in Britain , where the gap between petrol and diesel fuel prices has always been small .
55 Midani would be able to afford at least that , and a general offer would be cheaper for him to fund because of his existing stake .
56 I could see the outline of the soldier in front of me , at least that is an improvement on yesterday evening 's march .
57 At least that 's how they figured it and that 's how he explained it to me .
58 At least that 's what we 've been told by the seat-cover suppliers , Courtaulds Textiles , which produces the terribly natty ‘ Renaissance ’ decor for Rover 's new Metro .
59 At least that would give each half of the business a free run to compete with a growing horde of competitors .
60 At that time , when the Nikkei 225 index was trading at 26,230 , more than half by value of the warrants outstanding were more than 20% ‘ out of the money ’ : in other words ( see table ) , they needed the issuers ' share prices to rise by at least that amount to reach the exercise price .
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