Example sentences of "the time this " in BNC.

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1 By the time this column is read the curtain may have fallen on the empire created by George Walker , finally defeated by a £1.5bn debt burden .
2 Most of the time this isolation is what I seek , but today I just feel lonely .
3 A fall in the price of meat suggests that there is no grain to feed livestock — but by the time this happens the famine is about to begin .
4 ‘ I fought here 22 years ago , about the time this kid was about to get potty-trained , ’ he said .
5 Those for levels 1 to 3 are the same as those specified by Order for key stage 1 , which will have been published in statutory Documents by the time this report is made public .
6 Three weeks , by the time this conversation took place .
7 By the time this mill was built , it was possible to use an iron windshaft and gears instead of the all-timber machinery that had for centuries been such a tribute to the skills and ingenuity of millwrights and carpenters .
8 ‘ At the time this decision was made high energy physics took a major slice of government research budgets .
9 Kenneth Baker , the minister for information technology , said at the time this would make it easier for firms to obtain money .
10 At the time this was an unfashionable attitude .
11 The launch of the Linn CD player , an exotic two-box player priced at ten pounds less than £2600 , comes just a decade into the era of CD , and at a time when record player sales are on their uppers , and W H Smith , the UK 's largest purveyor of prerecorded music , is pledged to withdraw LPs from its stores by about the time this issue hits the newsstands .
12 At the time this criticism was directed at her rather than at me .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Hence , the Act 's ‘ The offeree 's giving , within the time allowed under this section , notice of cancellation of the agreement to the offeror at a time when the agreement has been entered into shall have the effect of cancelling the agreement' , becomes ‘ An agreement is cancelled if the customer gives the seller notice of cancellation within the time this section allows ’ .
16 At the time this article was written , that company had just launched a bond at 8% for a life of five years .
17 By the time this letter is published , the Faculty examination consultation period will have expired .
18 London Stock Exchange dealings in Foreign & Colonial PEP Investment Trust should have begun by the time this issue reaches readers .
19 By the time this appears I will have been here a year ( 11 January ) .
20 Half of the time this gives rise to tritium and a proton , and ( almost ) the rest of the time gives helium-3 and a neutron .
21 From the time this imaginative project was conceived , the aim has been to create the most exciting and original selection of luxury homes available in Central London .
22 And by the time this magazine goes to press Mr Lang is expected to have announced that he is rejecting the Countryside Commission for Scotland 's detailed proposals for four Scottish national parks in Glen Coe and Ben Nevis , Loch Lomond , the Cairngorms and Wester Ross .
23 By the time this younger generation has been correctly defined , it has grown older and replaced by some new unknown demographic quantity .
24 I choose patterns with only a few passes with the lace carriage because all the time this carriage is in operation no inches ( sorry centimetres ) are being added to the length of the garment .
25 When I did the first two talks , Dawn was n't trained enough to fly , though on the second she did manage a short hop , but by the time this big lecture came along she was flying on the creance .
26 By the time this chore was finished , I was so tired I fell into a doze on the veranda , dreaming of a Gauguin nude of Aleena 's grandmother , and then of a painting of Tiare and her daughter , and then how easy it would be if they could all come and live with me and we could just hang the pictures on the walls and enjoy them .
27 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 ’ .
28 About the time this match took place , Tonks was in the IRB meeting room alongside the French delegate and was not impressed that they had not made him aware of the game — if they in fact knew about it .
29 By the time this is read the club season will be under way and we can assess how players adapt to the new laws .
30 By the time this stage has been reached it is rather late to try and prevent it .
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