Example sentences of "the time [adv] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time when this scheme was introduced it was recognised that schools would be required to have some such arrangement in the future . |
| 2 | Now , like all revolutionaries , its earliest protagonists possessed a certain prophetic fervour and the time when this fervour was at its height coincided with a time when , following independence , aid to Africa had been vastly increased , with the usual mixed motives . |
| 3 | Their Lordships are both surprised and disappointed that , right up to the time when this appeal was heard by the Board , no information has been forthcoming to explain how the addendum came into existence and came to be typed , or whether this further statement was sought by the investigating authority or volunteered by the witness . |
| 4 | Curiosity will be aroused by an exhibition which unites artists who would never have agreed to show together at the time when this sculpture was being made . |
| 5 | At the time when this paper on basic factors in Soviet Far Eastern policy was being composed , the late summer of 1948 , the major points of difference within the State Department were whether or not the Russians would actively support the Chinese communists in the civil war if there was a danger that they might deviate along the path recently chosen by Yugoslavia and whether , for the same reason , the Soviets might be reluctant to foster the expansion of Chinese communist influence in Southeast Asia . |
| 6 | In what ways do you think that daily life was more pleasant in the time before this migration to the towns than it was afterwards ? |
| 7 | Turn back your currents in their course , the stiff breeze and the gentle wind , pull back the tide and send the sun , the moon , and the stars spinning in the churn of the heavens — so that we can return to the time before this time . |