Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Messrs Ames , Myers , Wilbraham , Hudd and Irens and the shell company specialists like Messrs Lever and D'Silva , this recession might be a period that , unlike most , they will be able to recall fondly as a time when they grew their businesses . |
| 2 | In this programme , Stanley , at the age of 88 , looks back fondly to a time when he was , unquestionably , Champion of the World . |
| 3 | I would like to commend you for the support you give to rural artists and craftspeople , through your excellent articles — especially at a time when , due to cuts in grants , such people need all the help they can get . |
| 4 | This especially at a time when they were earning significant incomes from Blackwomen writers such as Alice Walker and Maya Angelou . |
| 5 | If any government were to try to force them to do so , there would interminable arguments about its definition and measurement , especially at a time when price controls and other government interventions are causing enormous distortions in enterprise incomes . |
| 6 | And Mark Irwin — editor of weekly soccer magazine Shoot ! — said : ‘ It seems a strange decision , especially at a time when you can hardly turn on the telly without some soccer being screened . |
| 7 | The evidence that it was an accident brought about by bullies was overwhelming , especially at a time when 9 out of 10 Britons were engulfed in a tide of hate for Hitler 's British Mosley stooges . |
| 8 | Buying a PC by mail order can be traumatic , especially at a time when companies are going bust with alarming regularity . |
| 9 | Despite the earlier campaigns to the Forth against the Britons , this further offensive and the resources which it required and continued to require while Mercian strength increased in southern England represented a serious dislocation of northern Anglian royal aspirations , especially at a time when Oswiu remained committed to the maintenance of his influence south of the Humber , at least in ecclesiastical affairs . |
| 10 | ‘ Frankly , it beggars belief that so many more people have suddenly become invalids , especially at a time when the health of the nation has improved , ’ Mr Major said in the Commons . |
| 11 | ‘ Frankly , it beggars belief that so many more people have suddenly become invalids , especially at a time when the health of the nation has improved , ’ Mr Major said in the Commons . |
| 12 | You know with the and when she does n't know where she 's going to get enough money to feed , clothe them and especially at a time like now , when all these adverts are on television for , you know the toys that children want , and they just have n't the ability to provide those those things for the children , much as they would want to do it . |
| 13 | And since an expensive loaf caused havoc in St Jude 's and trouble in everybody 's weaving sheds , with demands for higher wages keeping profits down at a time when trade was far from good — when it would probably never rise again to the level of those early , heady days when the machines first came in — then Ben Braithwaite and his dinner guests had reason for their anxiety . |
| 14 | The average Jew was the average Englishman , living off a weekly pay packet of four pounds a week or less at a time when , in the worst-hit areas for unemployment , up to twenty per cent of the population was below the poverty line . |
| 15 | Paradoxically , ‘ people 's capitalism ’ has been ushered in at a time when the long-term trend towards a greater equality in wealth may have been reversed , and in a manner that has firmly excluded the poorest from acquiring capital assets themselves . |
| 16 | They 've seen language labs , which are great , more or less mould away for lack of resources to keep them in working order , and they see micros coming in at a time when everything else is being cut . |
| 17 | Once again , the two kings were stranded together at a time when the kingdom of Sicily was at a particularly explosive juncture in its long and turbulent history . |
| 18 | This collection has been brought together at a time when the Banjara people are gravitating towards the cities relinquishing their nomadic life and abandoning their dynamic textile art . |
| 19 | But was n't it a risk setting up alone at a time when you would n't be able to work continuously ? |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , I would n't mind that , not for a time anyway . |
| 21 | He takes over at a time when latest figures show Gloucestershire with the fasting rising crime rate in the country . |
| 22 | Mr Clerides takes over at a time when the international community is showing impatience with lack of progress towards a Cyprus settlement . |
| 23 | Thus at a time when Africa needs to industrialize , to create both exports and jobs , a review of the last thirty years shows how difficult this task has been and will be . |
| 24 | Erm I think it 's also now pretty much common ground that the capacity of York city is around three thousand three hundred , but I think in in in taking an view on that , and in taking any view o on future windfalls , it is necessary for the panel to keep in mind that historically in the nineteen eighties windfalls were coming through at a time when it was not a adopted local plan for the city of York , so to some extent anything by definition of a substantial size was likely to be a windfall , erm , but also more to the point than that definitional point , I would expect to see , and I think what Mr Curtis has said earlier on that the local plan is likely to tighten up on criteria for release of sites , both small and large , he referred to the shortage of open space , and I would expect to see a policy change in short , a policy climate change , within the city of York that would constrain past historical rates of windfall release . |
| 25 | Taylor believes he must protect Gascoigne just at a time when he seems to have shaken off the horrific knee injury that has kept him out of football for 17 months . |
| 26 | Just at a time when the Copts were especially sensitive . |
| 27 | None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed . |
| 28 | If not , sit down and have a chat with your child ; but not at a time when feelings are running high . |
| 29 | Not at a time when the rest of Germany is in turmoil , when the economy is struggling . ’ |
| 30 | The book begins with the 1950s , when baby manuals indexed ‘ fathers ’ as ‘ for fathers see mothers ’ , and men were ‘ angry ’ , ‘ tough ’ or ‘ queer ’ ; it ends with ‘ a new agenda for the 1990s ’ , described hopefully as a time when men join women in fighting for an end to exploitation of women at work and home , and the ‘ masculinity ’ we have known will come to a timely end . |