Example sentences of "one time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study of the mechanisms responsible for group structure at any one time thus requires a through-time or ‘ diachronic ’ perspective if the functional role of these mechanisms in relation to the overall reproductive strategies of individuals is to be perceived . |
| 2 | Mr Holmes a Court has trimmed his Dalgety stake which was at one time nearer 5.8 per cent . |
| 3 | The texts in which Judas Thomas appears as Jesus 's twin were at one time widely used by Christian congregations , not only in Egypt and Syria , but also , as we shall see , as far away as Spain and , it seems , Ireland . |
| 4 | At present there are two cottages ( at one time probably three ) . |
| 5 | Christmas is the one time completely free of cricket — and Clarissa loves the theatricality of dressing the tree and laying the table with the best silver . |
| 6 | his mother one time soon after they had started dating . |
| 7 | ( He says : This is the largest excercise this year with sixteen hundred men under canopy at one time tomorrow morning ) |
| 8 | Even nobles who had at one time covertly recommended such a union were alarmed by the unseemly haste , and realized that in any case the tide of national opinion was against the match . |
| 9 | If man has evolved to maintain his selfish genes , why can not he be happy to do just that and to fulfil the other biological drives like curiosity , sociability and the desire to dominate that at one time presumably aided the survival of his genes ? |
| 10 | Later we go to sleep with the noise of rain on the flysheet , that noise that is at one time both infuriating because it means that tomorrow 's enjoyment may be curtailed , and soothing in a strange way . |
| 11 | At one time both were seen as sustaining of democracy in Britain . |
| 12 | At one time both worked for the Bank . |
| 13 | The terms ‘ thesis ’ and ‘ dissertation ’ were at one time rather interchangeable , but now in the UK , the term ‘ thesis ’ is generally restricted to doctorate work , whereas master 's degree candidates write a ‘ dissertation ’ . |
| 14 | It was the one time when he doubted William Temple . |
| 15 | This can be one time when a young writer has to compromise on some immediate ambitions in order to progress on to the next stage of securing a record deal or having artists cover his or her songs . |
| 16 | The use of nursery rhyme , prayer , and the splitting of the poem in section V , confirm this ‘ authorlessness , , and the one time when the first person singular is employed , in section II , the reader senses a fear localized in the images used , more than in their beholder . |
| 17 | There was one time when I moved 14 times in seven months — that really disrupts your education . |
| 18 | The Hong Kong government fears the market may be thinking the same way : in late April it announced legislation to formalise the power of local banks to pay negative interest rates on Hong Kong dollar deposits ( just as Swiss banks did at one time when the Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money into the Swiss franc ) . |
| 19 | Apart from that one time when Gloria went off instead to cheer the King , Dot could n't remember a day when they had n't been to visit whatever hospital he was in . |
| 20 | She remembered one time when a nurse had beckoned Dot into a side room , pulled over a metal chair for Dot , and brought the bundle to her wrapped in a bulky scratchy blanket . |
| 21 | This is one time when you need the reassurance and help of your human keeper . |
| 22 | Then one time when I put my hand in my sleeve to bring out the compass , it was n't there . |
| 23 | One time when I turned to check on the arrow on the tree , I could n't see it . |
| 24 | I remember one time when Auntie Margaret back-answered to me grandma and me grandma could n't get to her so she tipped the table upon her . |
| 25 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ No , that one time when I was standing underneath the stage was close enough for me . |
| 27 | Because there is so little drag on crossing two stitches every four rows this is one time when you will not need to take down a stitch to either side of the cable . |
| 28 | I remember being shocked at one time when I heard one of my predecessors say that his objective as chairman was to retain our position as a private company operating on a world basis in the chemical sector . |
| 29 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
| 30 | There was just one time when he did . |