Example sentences of "[prep] the 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 | Most of the time this isolation is what I seek , but today I just feel lonely . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As both parents spoke to him in Punjabi for most of the time this did not seem surprising . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ At the time this decision was made high energy physics took a major slice of government research budgets . |
| 13 | Kenneth Baker , the minister for information technology , said at the time this would make it easier for firms to obtain money . |
| 14 | At the time this was an unfashionable attitude . |
| 15 | At the time this criticism was directed at her rather than at me . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At the time this article was written , that company had just launched a bond at 8% for a life of five years . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Each of these three groups has made a first report at the time this Chapter was written . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At the time this did not appear an entirely unrealistic perspective . |
| 25 | At the time this was barely spelt out , but as the 1960s progressed , the Treasury began to introduce from America a range of new budgeting and cost benefit techniques that can be seen as the means of implementing this objective . |
| 26 | From the track plot deduced by the accident investigation team from the aircraft 's flight-data recorder , the Vanguard appears to have been nearly 5 miles south-west of the MN at the time this position report was made . |
| 27 | She had clearly by various decree created a force majeure over mineral workings and whilst at the time this would have appeared an admirable standing , nevertheless the monopoly began to serve , in later years , as a disincentive to exploration and development . |
| 28 | Calling in at Lowestoft I found to my surprise that I was on the promotion list and viewed the prospect with mixed feelings as at the time this meant that I would no longer be eligible to crew on the cutters . |
| 29 | It is difficult for us to imagine now , but at the time this was a revolutionary book , not only because it put a new type of archaeological field monument , the deserted medieval village ( DMV ) , firmly on the map , but also because it heralded a new era in the study of rural settlements in this country . |
| 30 | At the time this study was carried out , the influence of Rastafari ( and with it , reggae ) was already in decline , victim of political changes in the Caribbean and the United States and the ascendancy of new cultural styles . |