Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] 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 | These clustered contractions nearly always developed at a time when the lower oesophageal sphincter pressure was below 5 mm Hg . |
| 4 | Self-provisioning is also more appreciated at a time of economic recession like the present . |
| 5 | For a start , though it 's called ‘ single-frame ’ , two frames are often shot at a time , for economy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The author realised that she was wrongfully dismissed at a time when the company needed her services . |
| 9 | 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 . |