Example sentences of "[verb] three [noun pl] at [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | If you 're gon na wait three days at a time for the local copper to turn up , |
2 | This guy called Mark that erm tt that Frank and Janet know very well , he 's a really very good D J indeed , you know he 's , Janet 's got a tape that he 's made and he 's got , using three decks at a time and stuff , he 's very good . |
3 | It should cover three weeks at a time , with allowance for holiday and sick leave . |
4 | In Belgium many people do take three weeks at a time |
5 | The first is the localised effect of the syntactic influences investigated ( the trigram window only considers three words at a time ) enabling the system to quickly recover from any incorrect decisions . |