Example sentences of "[was/were] at [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were at all times called by their Yiddish names Bashelaya , Shinageetel , and Riffka . |
| 2 | Professor Saville has written that the old unions ‘ were able to rely upon the skill of their members as a crucial bargaining weapon ’ but ‘ the new unionists were at all times , even in years of good trade , subject to the pressures of an over-stocked labour market ’ . |
| 3 | Rather more surprisingly perhaps , Sun and Star readers ( taken together ) were at that time split fairly evenly between Labour and Conservative with the Alliance a fairly close third . |
| 4 | I made my way to this celebrated establishment , and was very surprised to find an open salon ; we in Britain were at that time still cowering modestly in cubicles . |
| 5 | Martin Martin ( 1703 ) who wrote his well-documented Description of the Western Islands of Scotland has left a wide and varied record of many of the plant uses which were at that time extant . |
| 6 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 7 | The first GCE O and A level examinations were held in 1951 ( S levels were at that time an essential part of the system as well , since on them depended the award of State scholarships to university candidates , before the days of Mandatory awards ) . |
| 8 | There seems to be no doubt , therefore , that Yugoslav trade values are ( or at least were at that time ) underreported in terms of dollars , and that the difference was especially large in the case of Yugoslav imports . |
| 9 | The deaf of Glasgow were at that time extremely fortunate to have in William Agnew a most intelligent and capable man , an artist in his leisure time , who through his hobby had come into contact with Queen Victoria and who enjoyed a friendship with Lord and Lady Blythswood ( Glasgow Deaf and Dumb F.C . |
| 10 | The transmitters were at that time a completely sealed unit resembling a marble both in size and appearance . |
| 11 | The speed reductions would be achieved , by applying at critical points in the network , some of the same sort of Verkehrsberuhigung measures as those which were at that time being installed in the new rest and play areas . |
| 12 | The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time . |
| 13 | The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight ( BBMF ) were at that time based at Coltishall , Norfolk . |
| 14 | The defences were at that time concerned with 59 Squadron which was bombing the docks . |
| 15 | The other was Vasiliki ware ; this marked the end of the pattern burnish technique and the beginning of a new finish , a reddish-brown wash deliberately applied unevenly in order to simulate the mottled texture of the stone vases that were at that time so fashionable in eastern Crete ( Figure 32C ) . |
| 16 | There were at that time no fewer than 522 Boeing 707/300 aircraft in operation , every one of which was directly affected by the accident . |
| 17 | According to the most recent Green Paper ( DES 1985b ) there were at that time 184 institutions engaged wholly or mainly in the provision of higher education courses , and another 372 in which some provision was at this level — a total of 556 ( 10 fewer than given in Annex A of that document ) . |
| 18 | All the children were at that time highly disturbed and were placed with the foster mother on a long term fostering basis . |
| 19 | All were at that time employed in the Winchester office of the Royal Life Insurance Co . |
| 20 | The scheme was devised by men for men , since no women civil servants were at that time employed ( Rhodes , 1965 , Chapter 2 ) . |
| 21 | We were At that time of day the minima the minimum wage was fourteen shillings a day . |
| 22 | Of course , they 've got out of all recognition today , but three a penny fresh herren were at that time . |
| 23 | We were , however , readier , I think , than at the beginning , to take seriously and to counter , the equally serious convictions of those who held that there was no place for courses similar to ours , of which there were at that time a number in various stages of development . |
| 24 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |
| 25 | Sir Daniel bade his brother Roger , then living at Coniston Hall , make a report on the mines as they were at that time . |
| 26 | Least they were at that time . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most striking case of this is J. A. Thugut , Austrian representative at Constantinople in 1769–75 , who was throughout these years an agent in French pay regularly transmitting confidential information to his French colleague , the Comte de Saint-Priest ( though it is true that French and Austria were at that time allies , at least in name ) . |
| 28 | The immediate success of Autocover when it started in 1982 clearly demonstrated just how competitive the premiums were at that time . |
| 29 | Rational planning was to be achieved by unifying health services , which were at that time split between local authorities , the boards of governors of teaching hospitals , a regional and local administration responsible for other hospitals and the executive councils who administered the contracts for general practitioners ( see Figure 1.1 ) . |
| 30 | Well I think we will be er in a sense looking erm you know at the options that are available and all the options that are available after two thousand six , er we have n't looked at those in gr in any great detail , what the options were at that time . |