at that time

Definitions

Back then, at the time referred to in the past.

Equivalents

Examples

“At that time, the interior was choaked up with rubbish, several feet above the present⟳ surface, and overspread with ashlings, alders, and trees, the growth of such situations, to a very considerable height.”

“[T]he traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region, such as Warwickshire at that time was, is usually exact as well as tenacious”

“At that time it was thought that the critical section, in which an irruption of water from the river was to be feared, lay⟳ under the Shoots, but this proved not to be the case.”

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