Example sentences of "at the time [det] " in BNC.

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1 At the time all is sweetness and light .
2 At the time all the family rejoiced with him .
3 At the time all I could think was , three days — anyone can put up with anything for three days .
4 Because they had to run their local affairs , English colonies were quite different from those the Spanish , the Portuguese , the Dutch , and the French established between 1500 and 1650 , and at the time all the other European empires looked more durable than the English .
5 The men at the time all stood round one side while all the girls stood opposite .
6 He notes that at the time that Hoover was engaged in this exercise , a basic Italian washing machine was gaining market share against a heavily promoted German product , in Germany .
7 Moore felt at the time that jazz-rock offered a more obvious challenge to his talents , and the Colosseum line up , apart from Neil and Gary , included Don Airey on keys and Jon Hiseman on drums .
8 At the time that Sun Life moved its head office to Bristol , it also had nine regional offices based in major cities .
9 People who owned such land at the time that pressure for development came upon it — whether industrial or residential ; indeed obviously , the two went together — were faced with two choices .
10 Oh in fact you 're not even you could never have to go back to that same place but depends on where what you 're doing at the time that assignment comes up for reselling .
11 For many people at the time such practices were regarded as immoral .
12 Although at the time some of these vehicles seemed , and have since proved , to be new forms of dinosaur , that did not exempt us from our obligation as educators to prepare our students for the world of work some ten , twenty , thirty years ahead when they would be the key executives in the publishing industry .
13 As an example of what such courses required , we can consider an example from Hatfield College of Technology ( Carey 1964 ) , serving at the time some 200 full-time and 1,800 block and day-release students for external degrees , diplomas , and other qualifications .
14 At the time most car makers claimed their parts were interchangeable .
15 It was not at all necessary to say that I hoisted French colours , and therefore took the schooner unawares , or that at the time most of her men were on board of the Indiaman ; the great art in this world is , to know where to leave off , and in nothing more than when people take the pen in their hands .
16 At the time most reports gave casualty figures of about 200 dead , 800 wounded , but as the month progressed the estimates of the number of dead increased to 800 .
17 At the time this decision was made high energy physics took a major slice of government research budgets .
18 Kenneth Baker , the minister for information technology , said at the time this would make it easier for firms to obtain money .
19 At the time this was an unfashionable attitude .
20 At the time this criticism was directed at her rather than at me .
21 This is because , at the time this study was done , a machine could not be programmed for the next job while it was engaged in cutting .
22 At the time this was the longest journey which could be made by tram in London and owing to rapid trolleybus conversions , the last occasion on which it was possible .
23 At the time this article was written , that company had just launched a bond at 8% for a life of five years .
24 Andre Moga , the president of Beglès and one of the so-called ‘ barons ’ of French rugby , made the following comment : ‘ If Rodez had had a good president at the time this would not have reached court ’ .
25 Each of these three groups has made a first report at the time this Chapter was written .
26 There were no hard-porn videos available on the activities of The Fox at the time this new offender was committing his offence , only the soft-porn reporting of the popular newspapers , which were describing the atrocities with such vivid detail as they occurred .
27 At the time this was perhaps the most lavishly equipped school of its kind in the UK ( though there were many more lavish examples still in the richer areas of the USA ) but its strength was to be the participation of its library resource centre personnel and the head of resources in the in-service education of the teachers .
28 But it appears to me that , on the face of this document , there is no intention shown so to limit its effect , and that it is framed in the widest possible terms so as to cover , not only this particular debt , but all other claims by the bank in connection with the Professional and Trades Papers Ltd. , for it is admitted that the foundation of the judgment was the guarantee , and at the time this document was drawn up there was this joint liability on the judgment to the extent of £6,000 .
29 At the time this did not appear an entirely unrealistic perspective .
30 At the time this was barely spelt out , but as the 1960s progressed , the Treasury began to introduce from America a range of new budgeting and cost benefit techniques that can be seen as the means of implementing this objective .
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