Example sentences of "[prep] the time this [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Most of the time this isolation is what I seek , but today I just feel lonely . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the time this criticism was directed at her rather than at me . |
| 10 | ‘ At the time this decision was made high energy physics took a major slice of government research budgets . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the time this article was written , that company had just launched a bond at 8% for a life of five years . |
| 14 | cos at the time this report was put together erm |
| 15 | Each of these three groups has made a first report at the time this Chapter was written . |
| 16 | The meeting with Picasso , which probably took place around the time this picture was being painted or soon after , must have encouraged him in turning his back completely on Fauvism . |
| 17 | London Stock Exchange dealings in Foreign & Colonial PEP Investment Trust should have begun by the time this issue reaches readers . |
| 18 | Ground fighting has been limited to sporadic artillery exchanges , and a handful of patrol clashes ; but this situation may change massively by the time this issue goes on sale . |
| 19 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 20 | By the time this issue of the magazine is published the exhibition of prints , Impressive Women , at the London Print Workshop , will have finished and the supportive programme of talks come to a close . |
| 21 | Three weeks , by the time this conversation took place . |
| 22 | By the time this chore was finished , I was so tired I fell into a doze on the veranda , dreaming of a Gauguin nude of Aleena 's grandmother , and then of a painting of Tiare and her daughter , and then how easy it would be if they could all come and live with me and we could just hang the pictures on the walls and enjoy them . |
| 23 | ‘ By the time this century is finished — the whole planet , well , little Willmouse will live to see it , let's hope … |
| 24 | By the time this column is read the curtain may have fallen on the empire created by George Walker , finally defeated by a £1.5bn debt burden . |
| 25 | Whilst the typewriter is still the dominant method of putting words onto paper the ubiquitous word processor marches inexorably onward and by the time this decade ends the majority of published material will at least be electronically created . |
| 26 | By the time this mill was built , it was possible to use an iron windshaft and gears instead of the all-timber machinery that had for centuries been such a tribute to the skills and ingenuity of millwrights and carpenters . |
| 27 | By the time this letter is published , the Faculty examination consultation period will have expired . |
| 28 | By the time this letter is published , that figure will have grown . |
| 29 | We are already two-thirds of the way through our stay in Peking , and by the time this letter reaches you we may well be getting ready to leave for Sian . |
| 30 | By the time this note appears , the changeover from manual to computerised records and supporting data should have been completed . |