Example sentences of "at about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Direct light came onto the sill and jambs of the embrasure at about the time when the noises of wheels and voices from the street were at their loudest . |
| 2 | At about the time the new clock was commissioned , I became seriously ill with a heart condition , and it proved not possible to undertake the extensive research required to faithfully replicate the old clock . |
| 3 | At about the same time , 1926 to be exact , Walter Cocking produced what became known as Everyman Four receiver , originally called Everyman 's Four-valve , one of which is now in the Science Museum . |
| 4 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 5 | There were plenty of pumpkins at about the British record weight of 444lbs , or about a third the weight of a hatchback car , into which not one of them could have fitted . |
| 6 | This was conducted by Sir Edmund Compton and as a result of his report the Treasury Solicitor 's office lost a considerable amount of its advisory work ( which it has since regained ) at about the time Ware became Treasury Solicitor in 1971 . |
| 7 | At about the same time , British Telecom are also hoping to introduce a formal code of practice . |
| 8 | The total amount of growth hormone that is secreted per day increases to a maximum at about the time of puberty and is partially responsible for the growth spurt that is seen at about this time . |
| 9 | When the temperature peak was at about the normal time , the patient showed a temporary remission of symptoms ; when the temperature was timed too early she tended to feel depressed ; and when it was timed too late she tended to experience mania . |
| 10 | patients recover from their depression at about the same time that their body clock , as measured by the melatonin rhythm , adjusts its phase to match the sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 11 | At about the same time an advance party from the RMP detachment of ten volunteer ‘ redcaps ’ leave for a short journey to Thorey Island , where their company has planned a military skills training weekend . |
| 12 | Dr Barnardo 's was another charity she took on at about the same time ; this charity has left its old orphanage image behind , and the Princess feels her connections with it have been fruitful . |
| 13 | At about the same time came the Immorality Act , which made sexual relations between different races a crime against the state . ’ |
| 14 | The agency has plans to launch a second craft in April 1994 , at about the time that the first satellite reaches the end of its operational life . |
| 15 | At about the same time , Nadia Thalmann began work on a new project at the University of Geneva , animating synthetic actors using artificial intelligence and robotics . |
| 16 | At about the same time , the computer graphics lab at the New York Institute of Technology was working on what it ambitiously claimed would ultimately be the first full-length computer-generated feature , The Works . |
| 17 | It was Richard Bulwer who built the present Wood Dalling Hall in 1582 , at about the same time as his neighbour Henry Dynne was building the much larger Heydon Hall . |
| 18 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 19 | They spread there from the area of the Aegean at about the same time as the Israelite tribes themselves moved into the land from the east . |
| 20 | In Britain at about the same time another Gallup poll showed 30 per cent of the populace were in favour of giving up the British H-bomb . |
| 21 | A century later , at about the time that Otto I was crowned Holy Roman Emperor ( 962 ) , he sent a mission ( albeit unsuccessful ) to Princess Olga of Kiev . |
| 22 | A constituency operation in south-east London was begun at about the same time . |
| 23 | Taking Harry gingerly with me I moved to the left , towards the wall , and with great relief found that there was indeed a walkway there at about the height of my waist . |
| 24 | At about the same time the barons of Bedfordshire paid £200 ‘ for the disafforestment of that part of Bedfordshire which Henry I first afforested ’ — a definition which was to be the subject of future contention . |
| 25 | On 27 June the Attorney-General sent to Buckingham warrants for the sale of Neroche , Selwood and Feckenham Forests , and the disafforestment of Braydon was begun at about the same time . |
| 26 | Chris Patten had recruited them both at about the same time . |
| 27 | He 'll be selling his Grade 1 eggs for about £2 a dozen — £1 less than eggs from organically reared hens usually cost , and at about the same price as the supermarkets charge for non-organic free-range hens ' eggs . |
| 28 | At about the same time , the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the City of London decided to hold a Day of Solemn Thanksgiving to God for General Monk 's success , and they requested Richard Baxter to preach in St. Paul 's . |
| 29 | He also noted that it was at about the time when Prince Albert , the Prince Consort , opened the Royal College of Chemistry , the precursor to Imperial College , that he also opened the new Grimsby dock . |
| 30 | Walpole House , which had been erected in the sixteenth century , was altered with a new front elevation , in 1730 , and at about the same time two other houses were knocked into one to become Strawberry House . |