Example sentences of "[noun pl] come at a time when " in BNC.

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1 First , the increased weight of demands came at a time when the actual problems thrust before government were not only more complex and intractable , but were also more interdependent — solve one ( say , inflation ) and you only caused another ( rising unemployment ) .
2 Lijn 's desire to merge or melt the difference between the visual and aural senses came at a time when many artists were wishing to anticipate a more holistic view of art .
3 The disclosures come at a time when there are three known bids by senior civil servants to buy out part of the Crown Suppliers when it is privatised next year .
4 The encouraging figures come at a time when the number of young people in the county has dropped while the older population has increased .
5 The broking scandals came at a time when the Japanese government was already under pressure , both at home and abroad , to improve the supervision of its financial markets , to make insider trading illegal , and simultaneously to allow foreign institutions a greater degree of involvement in the domestic securities markets .
6 The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air .
7 The strike by Boeing 's 57,000 employees in at least seven states comes at a time when airlines with ageing fleets are already straining to find aircraft for use on their new routes .
8 The MHW decision on haemophiliacs comes at a time when Japan is beginning to accept AIDS as a national health problem .
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