Example sentences of "[prep] [art] time when [adj] numbers " in BNC.
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| 1 | These shared residential houses for single elderly persons provide an important new welfare resource for the Association at a time when increasing numbers of those who served in World War II , and their dependents , are reaching an age when they need the support of a housekeeper . |
| 2 | Hence , at a time when growing numbers were seeking houses the capacity of the cities to cope was being tested . |
| 3 | Too many congressmen in both parties were reluctant to aid Soviet retraining at a time when growing numbers of US citizens were unemployed . |
| 4 | He considers the ways in which oral conventions persisted in twelfth and thirteenth century English society at a time when larger numbers of people were beginning to use literacy for more purposes . |
| 5 | First , in an organisation with an all white or largely white workforce , network recruitment will help to ensure that this stays the case , particularly at a time when large numbers of white workers are unemployed and prepared to re-enter the comparatively poorly paid and less pleasant jobs they deserted in the past few years . |