Example sentences of "[adv] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | These Koi may not look much at the time you part with your cash , but then , certain varieties never show their full potential until they are mature . |
| 2 | It did n't feel like much at the time , but I knew it was him . |
| 3 | In some numbers he wrote half the contents ; in others , especially at the time of an operation on his eyes for glaucoma , little . |
| 4 | It is not possible to foresee , especially at the time of acquisition , exactly what information a specimen might hold . |
| 5 | The film had to be stopped for seven minutes , during which one man shouted through a loud-hailer , ‘ We , the National Front , protest against this anti-British rubbish , especially at the time of El Alamein . ’ |
| 6 | For much of the time these small market towns may well have appeared sleepy to travellers who were familiar with the hustle and bustle of the big cities , but every week on market day and more especially at the time of the annual fairs they were transformed by an influx of visitors . |
| 7 | The ESPLANADE , on which witches were once burned at the stake , is the scene of the famous Military Tattoo held annually at the time of the International Festival . |
| 8 | The reaction of my careers adviser at University when I confessed my inclination was gloomy but perhaps at the time realistic : ‘ That 's all very well , but what are you going to do when you grow up ? ’ |
| 9 | Mr Mazowiecki also said pointedly at the time that he was not prepared to replace one philosophically biased government ( a communist one ) with another philosophically biased government ( an avowedly Catholic one ) . |
| 10 | Under the system , created by West Germany 's Manfred Donike , the amount of steroids in an athlete 's body can be detected not only at the time the test takes place , but several months beforehand , although the actual drug is not identified . |
| 11 | They should be ignored in normal practice and disinfection should be assumed to have taken place only at the time a chemical has been applied and after the requisite contact time has elapsed . |
| 12 | It need have been irrelevant only at the time the edition of the digesta was made , which according to Schulz was in the late third century . |
| 13 | For mortality , the intensity of selection in a stable population ( r=0 ) remains constant during the pre-reproductive period because the consequences of death for reproductive success remain constant ; selection intensity starts to decline only at the time of first breeding . |
| 14 | They claim that he became the Messiah only at the time of his baptism — that is , his anointment or coronation . |
| 15 | Exercise raises the metabolic rate , not only at the time of activity , but also for a little while afterwards . |
| 16 | One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test . |
| 17 | Sometimes a feature of the Constitution is discerned as such only at the time when it has just ceased to have much relevance . |
| 18 | In line with this policy , the Eve Report also recommended , shatteringly at the time , that there should be a two-A-level entry standard , and acknowledged that , ‘ in time the normal method of training for the professional examinations or for exempting qualifications will be by way of full time , or sandwich , study . ’ |
| 19 | You obviously made quite an impression personally at the time . |
| 20 | ‘ It was bad enough at the time . |
| 21 | I do n't think Chris and the band know each other well enough at the time . |
| 22 | ‘ Had I been big enough at the time , I would have beaten his ass but I was n't . |
| 23 | Sometimes , of course , bags are searched , but the removal of company property from the premises of licensed dealers is rarely punished by anything more than instant dismissal , acceptable enough at the time to the culprits , as it coincides with their own plans . |
| 24 | The men he had killed were only electronic ghosts , but they had seemed real enough at the time . |
| 25 | This pattern , clear enough at the time , had been obscured by the revival of Walter Machin 's reputation , and Viola 's desire to rewrite history , to have her marriage accepted as perfect , if tragically brief . |
| 26 | ‘ You were willing enough at the time . |
| 27 | If it sounds funny now , it was not so at the time . |
| 28 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 29 | I said so at the time , did n't I , Kathleen ? ’ |
| 30 | I suppose it was good for us , but we did n't think so at the time . |