Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [prep] the [det] time " in BNC.

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1 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 . ’
2 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 .
3 My secretary , Angela Foley , and Clifford Bradley , the Higher Scientific Officer in the biology department , arrived at about the same time . "
4 The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England .
5 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 .
6 Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time .
7 Only late in his life did he undertake an analysis of the economic basis of imperialism , and even then he brought together a number of particular observations rather than formulating a specific alternative to the Marxist theory , such as Schumpeter produced at about the same time .
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