Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] at the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 This uncertainty is not so important at the present time , when things are far apart , so that a small uncertainty in position does not make much difference .
2 I give this portion of my estate as a thank-offering in the firm conviction that never again shall we have such a chance of giving our country that form of help which is so vital at the present time .
3 It would be particularly appropriate at the present time to pay more attention to this aspect , and to obtain better information about crofters ' levels of living , including the subsistence component and remittances from emigrants .
4 ‘ This connection is particularly important at the current time when we know the numbers of women on low income has doubled in the last decade . ’
5 Examination of the role and reality of informal care within the community care network is thus particularly pertinent at the present time , and represents an important illustration of the interdependence of research and practice .
6 The despair in the air was particularly dense at the present time , though its monetarist perpetrators were now fighting a rearguard action against the rest of Europe .
7 Christie 's might occasionally be blamed for ‘ too many notes ’ at least with regard to minor lots ( see lot 18 in the present sale ) but their catalogues are undoubtedly superior at the present time .
8 Of course during the er during the course of this year we will be considering prototypes which will enable those young people to reach that high level of qualification but he will be aware that under the national training and education target there are some of those targets which are directly related to the points that he has raised and the important priority for this government is to ensure not only that we have young people training to an even higher level but through programmes like investors in people , that we encourage every member of the work force and those er who are primarily unemployed at the present time , to train to even higher levels of qualifications .
9 The reason they were picked ( aside from those who are here by right of birth ) is that a small portion of their total brain power was visibly alight at the right time and in the right place .
10 In her anxiety not to ‘ assist ’ the nationalistic bourgeoisie of Poland , Rosa Luxemburg , by her denial of the right of secession in the programme of the Russian Marxists is , in fact , assisting the Great Russian Black Hundreds ( extreme Right ) ; she is in fact assisting … the nationalism of the Great Russians … the most formidable at the present time : it is precisely the one that is less bourgeois and more feudal , and it is precisely the one that acts as the principal brake on democracy and the proletarian struggle .
11 It is clear in talking to Walter , as he nears the end of his career , that while he has greatly enjoyed his job working with students , he is saddened by the fact that prospects for young people are not very promising at the present time .
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