Example sentences of "near the time " in BNC.

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1 Still no acknowledgement was made and it grew near the time when Gigia would be setting out on her journey .
2 As well as being near the time of the Seventh Sea , it is also the year in which Paco 's latest men 's fragrance , Teneré is launched : ‘ Teneré means ‘ to possess the hidden power of the sun ’ .
3 It was then getting near the time that I could turn him out , again I put it off , frightened of what he might do .
4 It was finally incorporated in the SMM , launched early in 1980 near the time of maximum sunspot activity .
5 The likely reason is that the mother becomes immunised to the foreign antigens only by fetal bleeding across the placenta at or near the time of birth .
6 In other cases ( like fasciclin III ) , expression begins near the time of neuromuscular contact and is always restricted to NMJ sites .
7 Secondly , they can be a result of wider journalistic efforts either from contacts with the police , or from interviewing people associated with the rape in some indirect way , either near the time of the offence , or the trial , or even , in a few cases , some time later .
8 A roll-out is expected on the West Coast in either San Francisco or around San Jose , California , near the time of the Xhibition X-Windows show which will be held there that week .
9 Nequam , in his Supplementum Defectuum , implies that Adam was still alive near the time of his own arrival at the little bridge , around 1175 .
10 They are sources that are contemporary or near contemporary with the period being studied , documents that were written by the participants , or by people at or near the time .
11 They are completed by hand by the scientist at or near the time of the work being recorded and form a chronological , step by step log of what was planned , what was done and the results gained .
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