Example sentences of "time there was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long — well , perhaps not that long-ago , in a drowsy Melbourne suburb called Surrey Hills , where Christmas came but once a year and the rest of the time there was the telly , you could say life was dull . |
| 2 | Tiger Watson was wounded ; Donald Roy killing his friend 's attacker , for this was a personal battle of man against man in the shadows , even though at the same time there was the impersonal hammer from machine-guns and 20mm cannons firing from beyond the basin and its locks . |
| 3 | Once upon a time there was the offer of a lifetime from Books for Children . |
| 4 | At the same time there was the dread news that a Simpson divorce case had been set down for hearing at Ipswich , chosen because it could there be more easily hurried on , for 27 October . |
| 5 | At the time there was the recognition that " society was on the brink of a great struggle between property and population " . |