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adv. back then, at the time referred to in the past.
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"At the Time" is a single by American country music artist Jean Shepard. Released in February 1974, it was the first single from the album I'll Do Anything It Takes. The song reached #13 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart
Usage examples of "at the time".
I myself suffered from a twisted back at the time and so could not go, but I remember well, as we all do.
He had allowed them to proclaim him so for a hundred reasons that seemed to leave him no choice at the time.
He's Andoran, from somewhere out west, near Baerlon, and he says he fought for your mother during the Succession, though he couldn't have been much more than a boy at the time.
That last had seemed very small at the time, especially weighed against the rest, but plainly the woman had known exactly the reception she would receive.
Now that the time was near, she was stroking the bulging scrip, apparently without realizing what she was doing.
It seems but yesterday that he followed me out to the Maypole door one night, and begged me not to say how like a boy they used him--say here, at home, he meant, though at the time, I recollect, I didn't understand.
Miss Miggs attending at the time appointed, was instantly chosen and selected from one hundred and twenty-four competitors, and at once promoted to the office.
But at the time she had been sorely tempted to lie where she was and let the cold put an end to her.
The Calabreses were in the back yard at the time of the shooting and were not injured.
Only the voices from the TV, Rory Calhoun telling John Payne that the time for talking was done, John Payne saying, 'Well now, if that's the way you want it.
And it didn't seem so 'little' to any of us at the time, and doesn't to me now, if I'm to tell the truth.
Even more of a wonder Garin or his older boy didn't, I suppose, but I never even thought about that at the time.
And," he said quickly, forestalling further protest, "it was a choice, at the time, of freezing with you or a few yards farther on.
But Palin reminded them both that they were all under the influence of the Graygem at the time, so it probably wouldn't have made any difference anyway.
Nowhere in the pages of LEAVES, or in the CHRONICLES for that matter, is there mention of Armavirumquecanonevermindquiprimusabpedibusfatoprof ugif,5 poet and philosopher, an equal and honored Companion in his own right, completely forgotten in favor of a large supporting cast of elves6 and gully dwarves7, in favor of the highly overrated Gem-stone Man, who is said to have used his highly overrated Gemstone to plug up some metaphysical leak the Companions had imagined because it seemed like good mythology at the time.