Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [prep] this time " in BNC.

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1 It was not clear whether by this time children were possible for the couple ; it was not apparent that the author knew much about that kind of thing .
2 It is noticeable that from this time wagon services between London and the Midlands did not expand as did those to other parts of the country .
3 One demand made during the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 was that entry fines should not exceed the value of two years ' rent , so it is likely that by this time , when a rising population was creating a shortage of land , some landlords were seeking more .
4 This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition .
5 I am reasonably sure that by this time any fair-minded reader with a spark of decency will readily acknowledge that all the apparent similarities between Daniel Miller and myself have been more than satisfactorily explained .
6 It is notable that at this time R.A.F. Intelligence , which was frequently very accurate , reported the presence of two Staffeln of Bf109Es in Sicily , one from JG 26 and one from JG 3 .
7 Chevaline in all had risen in cost from £350 m. in 1974 to over £1 billion by 1982 , on top of the Polaris missile programme-even though by this time US-Soviet arms limitation agreements had made Chevaline redundant .
8 It was in fact the little river Enborne , twelve to fifteen feet wide and at this time of year two or three feet deep with spring rain , but to the rabbits it seemed immense , such a river as they had never imagined .
9 A year later the issue of ‘ appropriate liberty ’ and indeed the nature of the French Union itself was still unresolved but by this time a Preliminary Convention had been signed between the Government of the French Republic and what was described , and recognized , as the Government of Vietnam .
10 And as the pressure mounts , squatters are encroaching on what was once idyllic whites only areas and the residents of Hout Bay near Capetown are made increasingly aware that in this time of political reform , they are no longer sheltered from the reality of life in the black townships .
11 It is noteworthy that at this time ( when secularised education was patronised by nearly all the governments of Europe including those that were nominally Catholic ) this query was dealt with as a matter of discipline by the Congregation of propaganda , and not as a matter of doctrine by the Congregation of the Inquisition .
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