Example sentences of "a time of [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A squeeze on public spending , adoption of money supply targets , privatization ( sale of BP shares in 1976 ) , and the priority accorded to fighting inflation , even at a time of historically high unemployment , were all in place under Mr Callaghan . |
| 2 | The effectiveness of bodies established to provide vocational training is of crucial importance at a time of both high unemployment , and , paradoxically , a shortage of skilled workers in some sectors . |
| 3 | For the Kuwait Oil Tanker Company ( KOTC ) , the news , at a time of generally increasing premiums , that Lloyd 's had decided to include Kuwait in their definition of the War Zone was especially unwelcome . |
| 4 | In a time of rapidly changing markets , or where the true market is obscured by confidentiality clauses attached to the terms of transactions , some tenants fear that a concentration on comparable evidence which is capable of proper proof is in itself a distortion of the market . |
| 5 | Lloyd George 's Government had embarked on a programme of financing social reform at a time of rapidly rising prices . |
| 6 | Seven years after Mrs Thatcher 's warning to the unions and nearly seven years of government under her direction during which time the trade unions ' privileges have been reduced , the growth of wages continues strongly at a time of very high unemployment . |
| 7 | So the early Carboniferous was again a time of very widespread carbonate deposition . |
| 8 | For this reason , and at a time of less genial moods , the Report was to come under severe criticism . |