Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] at a time " in BNC.

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1 Just the wee group of us , there 's different groups go at a time
2 The reason for this is to prevent additional symptoms occurring at a time when you might be suffering from PMT .
3 For she and the other natives of these isles lived at a time before sin , it seemed to him , a happy time , but inferior in intelligence and humanity to the enlightened ideals of his kind .
4 The encouraging figures come at a time when the number of young people in the county has dropped while the older population has increased .
5 Given this , it is impossible to avoid the idea that another part of the difference between the causal items and their effects is that the causal items exist at a time when their effects do not .
6 Second , demand overload and intractable and complicated problems came at a time of decreased government capacity , effectiveness , and authority .
7 Lijn 's desire to merge or melt the difference between the visual and aural senses came at a time when many artists were wishing to anticipate a more holistic view of art .
8 He was not a lady 's man in the accepted sense , rather he championed and encouraged single women to travel at a time when it was still considered bad form for a respectable young lady to take a shopping trip to London unchaperoned , let alone visit the Continent .
9 The strike by Boeing 's 57,000 employees in at least seven states comes at a time when airlines with ageing fleets are already straining to find aircraft for use on their new routes .
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