Example sentences of "[prep] just the time " in BNC.

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1 Could it be that there was then more racism in the art world , and that Black artists were being squeezed out at just the time when young working-class artists from the British provinces were finding unprecedented and immediate public fortune ?
2 American and British firms built fat integrated bureaucracies at just the time when Japanese firms were arriving in international competition with their lean , mean communities of interest .
3 He stresses the complexity of interrelations and points to an increase in the importance of territorial politics ( i.e. based on a local government area ) at just the time when — in the face of severe economic problems — local ( welfare ) expenditure has become an increasingly important element in central ( economic ) planning .
4 Indeed , the increased concentration of central government on local government spending helped to increase its political profile , locally as well as nationally , at just the time when reorganization had created authorities with major staffing and financial resources , authorities more powerful than the patchwork quilt of councils which they replaced .
5 In our society , children often reach adolescence at just the time that their mothers are going through the menopause .
6 ‘ If Armitage did it in conjunction with Latimer , that explains the window , the lurking on the gallery , and the presence of Latimer acting suspiciously in the area at just the time the murder was committed .
7 At just the time when the Civil War was weakening this commercial connection , the Dutch were trying to conquer the portuguese colony of Brazil .
8 It was not recorded before the year 1610 , and there have been suggestions that it brightened up abruptly at that time , though personally I am sceptical ; it would be a strange coincidence if the Nebula burst into prominence at just the time when mankind invented the telescope !
9 Immigrants from the New Commonwealth arrived at just the time that Britain lost an empire and with it her position in the world .
10 As was so often the case with railway stations , these facilities were reaching their highest point at just the time when immigration — like the passenger statistics themselves — was about to take a steep downturn .
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