Example sentences of "that time the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a blow-over does occur , you will always hear the people concerned state , quite truthfully : ‘ Up to that time the wind had been quite acceptable and then there was this bad gust … |
| 2 | By that time the Everyman 's new artistic director , John Doyle , and his permanent company will have worked their way through an ambitious and unusually schematic programme culminating in two works of twentieth-century apocalypse : a Solzhenitsyn piece from the Gulag , and the Chernobyl play Sarcophagus . |
| 3 | By that time the cinema had closed down , sold to a firm making fibreglass covers for pneumatic drills . |
| 4 | Since that time the productivity of the top 20 per cent of farmers has been sustained with a continuous record of technical improvement ; about 40 per cent have maintained a level of productivity which enables them to generate an acceptable income ; and a further 40 per cent have continued to produce enough for their own household 's subsistence requirements . |
| 5 | But in the market at that time the ploy was far from enough to make the new models seem like bargains . |
| 6 | By that time the ministry had already spent £9.54 million on the project . |
| 7 | By that time the officer cadets were in hospital . |
| 8 | By that time the trading had been done . ’ |
| 9 | By that time the room had acquired an axis and was gently girating around it . |
| 10 | The North 's share of the world 's energy consumption was expected to decrease from around 70 per cent to 60 per cent by 2020 , but in that time the proportion of the global population living in the South would have grown from 75 per cent to 80 per cent . |
| 11 | By that time the state of the economy had eclipsed the environment as the main issue . |
| 12 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 13 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 14 | But at that time the PR mentality ( one could not call it mind ) was new to her . |
| 15 | The young woman arrived late one evening after having driven all the way from Berlin in her Volkswagen Beetle , at that time the ‘ in ’ means of transport for young Americans . |
| 16 | At that time the house belonged to my father 's youngest sister . |
| 17 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 18 | It lasted three days and during that time the 4,000 delegates had a choice of plenary sessions with top speakers , technical study groups , workshops , banquets , free time and even great music . |
| 19 | By that time the girl was pregnant . |
| 20 | At Bayreuth at that time the chorus was better at shouting than singing ; they thought this was the true Wagner style . |
| 21 | Sometimes it would happen that during a lecture — at that time the secret police were very active — there would be a knock at the door and two men would enter . |
| 22 | At that time the bones of a saint were important : the Abbeys would vie with each other to see who could claim to have the best holy relics , because bones performed miracles , which brought in the visitors . ’ |
| 23 | At that time the industry was having difficulties adjusting to the new rules imposed by the Financial Services Act . ’ |
| 24 | At that time the electors for the County of Middlesex used to gather at Brentford for elections and , in 1768 , John Wilkes was elected as their member of Parliament . |
| 25 | By that time the embanked railway line — now the District Line — had bisected the ‘ Back Common ’ of Turnham Green , and the area left north of the railway gradually became referred to as Acton Green . |
| 26 | By that time the Fascist party in Italy had increased in strength to 300,000 members . |
| 27 | At that time the square was bigger , with the palazzo standing at its centre , and the northern limit being the Palazzo Giureconsulti which now stands on the far side of Via Mercanti . |
| 28 | At about that time the river was also dammed to form the mill pond , the Dickler having previously been used directly . |
| 29 | Until that time the convention in painting nudes had been to omit pubic hair altogether . |
| 30 | Mining and the condition of miners has been a running sore in Bolivia since the colonial period when Indians were herded off for certain death in the silver mines of Potosí , at that time the wealthiest city in South America . |