Example sentences of "at one time " in BNC.

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1 Their work bears witness both to the power of partnership and to the powers of expression which we feel able to attribute to groups , to some circle of friends or literary ‘ school ’ — in this case , the group which was at one time drunkenly designated the scholarship boys , angry young men or hypergamists of the Fifties .
2 ‘ I was a university lecturer at one time .
3 Echinacea purpurea , also native to the American prairies , was at one time included with the rudbeckias as R. purpurea , differing most obviously in having purplish-red ray-florets .
4 At one time a fifth of the town was occupied by religious houses or mission centres .
5 At one time there were silver-winged ants .
6 An infant at eight months who retrieves a completely-occluded object has made a major advance in understanding the appearance-reality distinction , at least on the plane of action , because he now knows that , although the perceptual input at one time tells him that there is no rattle in his reachable space , really there is .
7 At one time the word ‘ dye ’ was used for exotic colours , such as reds , blues etc , and the word ‘ stain ’ was used when colouring woods to natural wood shades .
8 At one time , painting the inside of cold water cisterns with bituminous paint was the answer when it had corroded , but this is no longer recommended .
9 So the novel strikes me , and at one time Dostoevsky thought so too .
10 There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers .
11 One of the first to emerge was DFDP from Atlanta Signal processing ( Fig. 1 ) , at one time marketed by Texas Instruments .
12 It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature .
13 At one time the FT-SE share index was down 27.5 points .
14 At one time there were dozens of companies which specialised in renting out western paraphernalia .
15 As followers of these pages will know , this project was at one time to have been directed by a America 's leading connoisseur of chaos , lunacy and bad taste , John Waters ( who made Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ) .
16 At one time Dalgety was up 16p as Elf Aquitaine , the French oil group , confirmed it had formed a joint company with Australian Robert Holmes a Court to hold a 5.5 per cent stake in the Dalgety agricultural and food group .
17 Mr Holmes a Court has trimmed his Dalgety stake which was at one time nearer 5.8 per cent .
18 They are heartened by finding common ground between English and science for , if nothing else , the introduction of the national curriculum has encouraged teachers from different disciplines to talk to each other : ‘ At one time , we could conceive of ourselves as subject teachers , ’ said Mr Lenarduzzi .
19 ‘ Most of us use the booths at one time or another , and they are the obvious place to go if you need a picture for your identity card . ’
20 At one time the broadly-based FT-SE share index plunged 42 points .
21 At one time the shares hit 416p .
22 Amstrad , following extensive option trading with more than 3,200 contracts , was at one time down 5.5p at 57p .
23 The excitement was enough to push Scottish 19p higher at one time .
24 The move is unprecedented : a substantial number of security force members have in the past been charged and convicted of terrorist-type offences , but never before has such a number been picked up for questioning at one time .
25 At one time they hit 356p .
26 At one time the FT-SE share index was down 34.9 points .
27 At one time the FT-SE was riding 17.2 points higher .
28 Royal Insurance Holdings continued to ignore the drip of the John Spalvin share sales , gaining at one time 20p .
29 Guinness , at one time 22p higher on talk that LVMH was buying , closed 6.5p to the good at 608.5p .
30 The case is made slightly untoward by the fact that both Mrs Cons-Boutboul and her former son-in-law were at one time barristers .
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