Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charges included his acceptance of a commission following the completion of SOMISA 's purchase , at well above market prices , of new offices which were then lavishly decorated at a time when the state company 's workforce was being dramatically reduced in preparation for its privatization in 1992 [ see p. 38527 ] . |
| 2 | All the nineteenth-century conventions of comedy pointed to the need for universality and in any case Chaplin 's own personal inclinations must have pulled him back from being sectionally committed at a time of class warfare . |
| 3 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 4 | These clustered contractions nearly always developed at a time when the lower oesophageal sphincter pressure was below 5 mm Hg . |
| 5 | Self-provisioning is also more appreciated at a time of economic recession like the present . |
| 6 | In reflection , Nicholson remembers that apart from the task of writing a film about a new subject on which there was very little in the way of written research material , it also came at a time when he was going through his divorce . |
| 7 | These developments also come at a time when drives for greater efficiency are features of both public and private sectors . |
| 8 | In marketing terms it 's a tremendous card to play erm our marketing line in the States was always ‘ we speak your language , a common heritage , a common culture erm almost a common language ’ and erm the special relationship really exits at a time like this to a very marked degree , and we shall be playing that for all it 's worth , certainly . |
| 9 | For a start , though it 's called ‘ single-frame ’ , two frames are often shot at a time , for economy . |
| 10 | Apocalypse Now appeared at a time when the political climate in America was shifting to the right , resulting in Reagan 's victory in the 1980 presidential elections . |
| 11 | As it takes about two years to convert an idea to law through our parliamentary system , new legislation is often implemented at a time when the circumstances which gave rise to the idea have substantially altered . |
| 12 | At present , some centres use photographic records to follow patients with clinically atypical naevi , on the assumptions that only lesions that show evidence of progressive change need to be excised and that such change can be clinically detected at a time when evolving melanomas are thin and curable by local excision . |
| 13 | By leaning her back against it and pedalling with her feet she could move it forwards inches at a time . |
| 14 | They measure the seasons by the changing day length , as may be demonstrated by keeping migratory birds under artificial day length conditions : they then migrate at a time dictated by their experienced day length , rather than the time of year . |
| 15 | The author realised that she was wrongfully dismissed at a time when the company needed her services . |
| 16 | The prospect for the rest of the European Community is of a France politically paralysed at a time when important decisions have to be made — whether on European integration or the future of world trading under GATT . |