Example sentences of "[prep] [art] time this " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I fought here 22 years ago , about the time this kid was about to get potty-trained , ’ he said .
2 The launch of the Linn CD player , an exotic two-box player priced at ten pounds less than £2600 , comes just a decade into the era of CD , and at a time when record player sales are on their uppers , and W H Smith , the UK 's largest purveyor of prerecorded music , is pledged to withdraw LPs from its stores by about the time this issue hits the newsstands .
3 About the time this match took place , Tonks was in the IRB meeting room alongside the French delegate and was not impressed that they had not made him aware of the game — if they in fact knew about it .
4 After a time this gentleman leant forward and tapped Baldwin on the knee .
5 After a time this ability becomes as instinctive as is the power of singing or whistling a note of any pitch desired , but it should be obvious that horn parts should keep to ‘ vocal ’ intervals or stepwise movement as far as possible .
6 Most of the time this isolation is what I seek , but today I just feel lonely .
7 Half of the time this gives rise to tritium and a proton , and ( almost ) the rest of the time gives helium-3 and a neutron .
8 For most of the time this involved consecutive interpreting , i.e. making notes of what the speaker said and then at the end ( of perhaps an hour 's talk ) repeating the speech in the target language .
9 For most of the time this works imperfectly and simultaneous interpretation of BSL to English is frequently marked by the interpreter requesting repetition or further information from the deaf person .
10 As both parents spoke to him in Punjabi for most of the time this did not seem surprising .
11 erm And a lot of the time this gentleman would have been sorting through the data , finding out who owed how much money , writing them polite letters , and this is the sort of thing you can do very quickly with a computer .
12 For a time this story of Jacob at the Jabbok runs true to plot .
13 Cambridge were left high and dry for a time this afternoon as Oxford followed in the footsteps of many a champion boxer and left the opposition waiting at the official weigh-in .
14 From the time this imaginative project was conceived , the aim has been to create the most exciting and original selection of luxury homes available in Central London .
15 Hence , the Act 's ‘ The offeree 's giving , within the time allowed under this section , notice of cancellation of the agreement to the offeror at a time when the agreement has been entered into shall have the effect of cancelling the agreement' , becomes ‘ An agreement is cancelled if the customer gives the seller notice of cancellation within the time this section allows ’ .
16 Once upon a time this may have been so .
17 Once upon a time this plasteel cavern with its ranks of mighty support pillars must have seemed spacious , voluminous , gargantuan .
18 Once upon a time this was the role everyone thought was the right and moral one , but the immense power of television to influence , and the rapid growth of communications , makes such definitions naive .
19 At the time this decision was made high energy physics took a major slice of government research budgets .
20 Kenneth Baker , the minister for information technology , said at the time this would make it easier for firms to obtain money .
21 At the time this was an unfashionable attitude .
22 At the time this criticism was directed at her rather than at me .
23 This is because , at the time this study was done , a machine could not be programmed for the next job while it was engaged in cutting .
24 At the time this was the longest journey which could be made by tram in London and owing to rapid trolleybus conversions , the last occasion on which it was possible .
25 At the time this article was written , that company had just launched a bond at 8% for a life of five years .
26 Andre Moga , the president of Beglès and one of the so-called ‘ barons ’ of French rugby , made the following comment : ‘ If Rodez had had a good president at the time this would not have reached court ’ .
27 Each of these three groups has made a first report at the time this Chapter was written .
28 There were no hard-porn videos available on the activities of The Fox at the time this new offender was committing his offence , only the soft-porn reporting of the popular newspapers , which were describing the atrocities with such vivid detail as they occurred .
29 At the time this was perhaps the most lavishly equipped school of its kind in the UK ( though there were many more lavish examples still in the richer areas of the USA ) but its strength was to be the participation of its library resource centre personnel and the head of resources in the in-service education of the teachers .
30 But it appears to me that , on the face of this document , there is no intention shown so to limit its effect , and that it is framed in the widest possible terms so as to cover , not only this particular debt , but all other claims by the bank in connection with the Professional and Trades Papers Ltd. , for it is admitted that the foundation of the judgment was the guarantee , and at the time this document was drawn up there was this joint liability on the judgment to the extent of £6,000 .
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