at the time

English

Prepositional phrase

at the time

1. Back then, at the time referred to in the past.
   • 2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 87:

     Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.

Translations

at the time referred to in the past

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 當時／当时 (dong¹ si⁴)

• Czech: v té době, tehdy (cs)
• Danish: dengang
• Dutch: toen (nl)
• Esperanto: tiutempe
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: aikanaan, silloin (fi)
• French: à l’époque
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: den gang, dengang (superseded?)

  Nynorsk: den gong

• Portuguese: (recent): naquela hora, aquela hora, na hora; (non-recent): naquela época / aquela época / na época, à época (formal)

See also

• back in the day