Example sentences of "understand at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was little understanding at the time of how much work was required to develop high-quality screenplays . |
| 2 | The strange thing is , quite often you do a lot of courses that you do n't understand at the time , you think it 's a load of rubbish , then you read through them , and just understanding them , they 're really quite important . |
| 3 | I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany . |
| 4 | They will trawl back in their minds for comments and clues that , if they had been understood at the time , might have enabled them to be more helpful . |
| 5 | The gaunt picture on the back tells a story that few understood at the time : Marley was being eaten by cancer . |
| 6 | These price and cost interrelations were not well and explicitly understood at the time , and it is perhaps anachronistic to criticise the industry for not adopting them . |
| 7 | However , this was not how matters were understood at the time . |
| 8 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |