Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] at the time " in BNC.

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1 However , the reduction in railway employment was offset by the growth of activity in the Post Office , and changes in bus service employment were less than feared at the time of ‘ deregulation ’ ( 1987 ) .
2 I expect a Public Sector Borrowing Requirement in the current financial year of £35 billion , slightly lower than projected at the time of my Autumn Statement .
3 Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa .
4 Though the next decade quickly reversed the conservatism of the 1950s , the notion that British fiction lacks experimental energy , or even just quality , still survives ; a partially accurate picture , based upon a lapse in the experimental tradition less complete than suggested at the time .
5 Any anxiety state and/or depression suffered by the insured and diagnosed at the time of purchasing this insurance .
6 It was an inglorious episode in English history , little remembered since , and regarded at the time less as a disgrace than as a deliverance .
7 This was foreseen by the local residents who objected and petitioned at the time planning permission was under consideration .
8 She stuffed the printout into her bag , where — somewhere — three other copies were already lurking , and looked at the time .
9 Dereham had in fact considered that he and Catherine were engaged to be married , and this , if revealed at the time , would have invalidated the royal marriage .
10 I felt angry and humiliated at the time of the argument but I can guess at how he must have felt .
11 If taped at the time , ideal for both self-study and teacher guidance .
12 Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label .
13 The first research and development projects under the agreement have already begun and are operating on target and on time , the partners say — as reported at the time , in April , Bull announced its DPX/20 series of scalable Unix workstations and servers using the IBM RISC , and products are being shipped .
14 Where a transfer of value is made by associated operations carried out at different times it shall be treated as made at the time of the last of them .
15 But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality .
16 Little was done , or could have been done under the imperatives of war needs as interpreted at the time , to close down the schools on the Black List , long overdue for closure and replacement , or to rebuild inner-city schools .
17 Though set at the time of the Napoleonic wars , its treatment of the Luddite riots is clearly an oblique comment on more topical events . ’
18 It would he a very revealing item of Bomber Command 's history were a tape to be made available today of that unfortunate telephone link-up , and for a cold assessment to be made of all the circumstances as known at the time .
19 When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce .
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