Example sentences of "at a time when [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At a time when vast tracts were unsettled , it was all too easy for governments to be profligate . |
| 32 | As with a number of similar literary-based projects around in Hollywood at a time when mainstream studios were trying to discover what to do next after the demise of musical and religious epics , it was not a success . |
| 33 | Established birth control and resulting low fertility permitted a unique advance in marriage at a time when married women were not yet committed to the work-force . |
| 34 | During the mid-1950s , at a time when continental drift was not seriously considered by most earth scientists , new evidence in the form of palaeomagnetic data from rocks again began to bring into question the notion of stationary continents . |
| 35 | Between 1960 and 1981 , London lost 51 per cent of its manufacturing jobs , and the major conurbations 43 per cent , at a time when small towns lost only 1 per cent and rural areas actually gained 24 per cent . |
| 36 | The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole , at a time when global trends in ozone levels were uncertain , came as a complete surprise . |
| 37 | They need emphasis at a time when Anglo-American relations in the Middle East seemed to be dominated ( and hopelessly soured ) by the crisis in Palestine . |
| 38 | Ironically this change in public opinion came at a time when Arab terrorists were letting off bombs in Paris , which French people thought quite terrible . |
| 39 | At Waddington , Tim Taylor has organised an exhibition of maquettes and drawings by Henry Moore ( 3 June-4 July ) at a time when international interest in his work appears to be reviving , with current exhibitions taking place in Sydney and in the Garden of the Bagatelles in Paris . |
| 40 | Both countries have , however , moved sharply into recession at a time when economic growth in Japan , Germany and France has remained strong . |
| 41 | The return of socialism would be the ‘ road to nowhere , a dead end ’ at a time when economic recovery was around the corner . |
| 42 | The consumer boom was fuelled not just by the falling savings ratio at a time when economic growth allowed incomes to rise strongly , but also by ( a ) tax cuts , especially in the budgets of 1987 and 1988 and ( b ) readily available credit — particularly in the aftermath of the deregulation of the City in 1986 , known as Big Bang . |
| 43 | It remains something of a surprise that at a time when conserving species diversity is valued so highly , so little priority is given to listing the basics of what species there are to be conserved or lost . |
| 44 | I was fortunate to grow up at a time when imperial measurements were generally used , but science was special in being both imperial and metric . |
| 45 | However , since the scheme was implemented in very unfavourable political circumstances and at a time when overall resources for education were shrinking , its impact was limited . |
| 46 | Importantly their chapter offers a defence of the role of educational studies in addressing fundamental educational problems and issues , and of the need to sustain independent enquiry at a time when official pressure concentrates on the technical and utilitarian aspects of schooling . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | It offered a semi-rural idyll to the most urbanized nation in the world , at a time when rural life was rapidly shrinking . |
| 49 | Bridbury also suggests , from the admissions to the freedom of the boroughs , that the ranks of the citizens were being widened , and that even at a time when rural conditions provided more incentive for men to remain in the country than at an earlier date the towns were still able to attract them ( 61 , pp.62–4 ( Tables , 65–9 ) ) . |
| 50 | His 1977 LP New Boots and Panties , a witty , vulgar celebration of low-life in Billericay and Shoeburyness , was released at a time when other British groups were singing about California in counterfeit mid-Atlantic accents . |
| 51 | The result has been an expansion in diesel motoring at a time when other sales have been down . |
| 52 | If he did not sell a property there was no charge , and at a time when other agents charged for everything down to advertisements in the papers , this was a popular and profitable revolution , which added to the image of ‘ man of the people ’ . |
| 53 | At a time when other galleries are extending exhibitions or raiding stock , London 's younger dealers are providing a special energy which helps to alleviate the difficult trading conditions of the present market . |
| 54 | Duccios and Signorellis and Martinis hung by her bedside at a time when other girls pinned up Elvis and Cliff or even Paul Anka . |
| 55 | Asked if he accepted Mr Hume 's word , Mr Trimble replied : ‘ I think a very serious question-mark — I am sorry to say — has to be placed against Mr Hume 's motives , because he is persisting in talking to republican paramilitaries at a time when other people are anxious to see positive dialogue taking place . ’ |
| 56 | Completion of the plant has been bitterly opposed by environmental campaigners , who criticise the government for favouring nuclear power at a time when other European nations are phasing it out . |
| 57 | The company says catering for first time buyers is boosting sales at a time when other builders are reporting big losses . |
| 58 | At a time when new stations elsewhere meant bus shelters , fine new stations which retained at least some of the spirit of the old were provided at Taita , Palmerston North , and Rotorua , among others . |
| 59 | Thus , two new launches had proved possible at a time when new dailies were generally still unpractical . |
| 60 | At a time when new young writers were in keen demand the story had an instant success . |