Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] the same time " in BNC.

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1 With new technology making our lives easier by the day , it 's good to know that the environment is being looked after at the same time .
2 Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry .
3 The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both .
4 Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world .
5 And in the same square stood the parish church of Santa Croce , built at about the same time as the castle .
6 And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster .
7 But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’
8 The man paid the gaveller about a shilling a day : if she had a young child to look after at the same time she would have to manage as best she could .
9 It may be a coincidence that this affair , the consecration of the church at Assandun , and the introduction of monks at Bury all happened at about the same time .
10 But clear declines in infant mortality in Britain and in Belgium only become apparent some time after the beginning of the fertility decline , and in France mortality and fertility declines begin at about the same time .
11 Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right .
12 My secretary , Angela Foley , and Clifford Bradley , the Higher Scientific Officer in the biology department , arrived at about the same time . "
13 Apple Computer Inc 's second batch of Newtons will be notebook-sized versions of the device which it expects to ship at about the same time as the small first model , according to MacWeek : the notebook will have a landscape-mode screen with a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels ; the notepad , in contrast , has a small portrait-mode screen ; Apple will also deliver its first PCMCIA slot in the Newton this summer , but a slot for the PowerBook laptops may be further away .
14 It is the way that our feelings tell us that they have got too much to cope with at the same time and they need some help — in the jargon this is called needing some ‘ ventilation ’ .
15 What I fear is that A-levels will be diluted without at the same time lengthening degree courses , particularly mathematical ones , to maintain standards .
16 Coun Hughes said the emergency services were called to Barnard Castle shortly before 2pm , while the nearby health centre was contacted at about the same time .
17 The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England .
18 And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review .
19 In addition it would enable correspondence that deals with several aspects of Council Tax to be dealt with at the same time and a co-ordinated response to be prepared by nominated officers .
20 It would have made sense for the Government to include this measure in that Bill so that it could be dealt with at the same time .
21 It 's certainly an anomaly that two players dealt with around the same time end up serving their bans well apart .
22 It is very unusual in ‘ advanced ’ societies for us to cry without at the same time apologizing .
23 Three guerrillas were executed at about the same time for offences against civilians , according to the INPFL newspaper Scorpion on Aug. 2 .
24 Both Tom Rooney and Dan Brady realized that they were being followed at about the same time .
25 Births and abortion rates increased at about the same time .
26 The earliest known whales date from about the same time , but in this case the situation is slightly more complicated , in that these early whales were very similar to modern ones , and could be big — up to 15 m ( 50 ft ) long .
27 Now if that was totally inherent at the time , then I really fail how to see how it could have done eighty thousand miles , and I think that may be a point that 's put across at the same time .
28 Similar proposals for another single-lead junction near Yoker had been submitted at about the same time , the inquiry was told , but Dr Hill had insisted that ScotRail justify its use .
29 They always passed at about the same time , right after midnight , and it was something he liked to watch , the way other people watch sunsets or the ocean .
30 Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time .
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