Example sentences of "one time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At one time they were very much cultivated in Provence and are still popular there . |
| 32 | There must , in fact , be few marriages in which temporary sexual difficulties do not arise and , as we have seen , at any one time they exist for a fair proportion of married adults . |
| 33 | Try as they might , those advertisers are always beaten down by the form ; they are forced — even at the one time they need to be candidly personal — into an unwished impersonality . |
| 34 | They used to buy from Ghana a lot and er at one time they stopped it and this very nearly brought down Ghana 's economy right down . |
| 35 | And er at one time they were on the evening papers , opposite . |
| 36 | Erm I know at one time they were the motors were going to fast , the ball was . |
| 37 | ‘ At one time they 'd have thought it odd if I did n't have a girl in tow . |
| 38 | At any one time they are likely to have two hundred and fifty in various stages of recovery . |
| 39 | Oh they , they used to have several going through the hangers at one time they erm they probably had about six Harvards , and about nine Bostons which were , they were bigger than |
| 40 | At one time they 'd say , Oh just bid the whole parish . |
| 41 | I mean , I can remember when she worked with me , every Christmas they changed one time they came to Leicester |
| 42 | No , I do n't suppose you do now , but , but I have would off worked for local authorities , because at one time they were very poorly paid . |
| 43 | Like th what they did one time they all had erm |
| 44 | and they say not to eat apples and oranges , er , at one time they told you to eat the lot did n't they apples a day keep the doctor 's away . |
| 45 | one time they had this big trolley of all smashed up Easter eggs and me and my mum kept running up to it and nicking bits of chocolate |
| 46 | At one time it was up 10.0 points . |
| 47 | At one time it was widely believed that there had been a great rise in the birth-rate ; there was , in fact , a slow rise to the end of the 1861–70 decade , after which the rate began to fall . |
| 48 | At one time it was the law that rape is committed only where the woman submits through force , fear , or fraud . |
| 49 | At one time it must have been a waiting room for clients . |
| 50 | And at one time it was UK policy for fertiliser use to be encouraged by direct grants and subsidies . |
| 51 | At one time it was supposed that the ammonoids were suffering from ‘ racial senescence ’ at that time and that the uncoiling represented a kind of genetic exhaustion . |
| 52 | At one time it was thought that the brain reached its peak of potential performance when the individual was between the ages of 18 and 25 years and that , from that time onwards , it began to deteriorate . |
| 53 | At one time it was assumed that the best approach was one of stealth and caution , particularly as the most productive place to fish was invariably no more than a rod 's length away from your own bank . |
| 54 | At one time it seemed that the best approach to the problem would be to reduce the level of lead in petrol , but not to eliminate it altogether . |
| 55 | At one time it was common for French soldiers to leave their wives with dildos ( artificial penises ) when they marched off to war , to reduce the risk of adultery while they were away . |
| 56 | At one time it was a Country club , now it is an hotel and a very popular venue for wedding receptions and other festive occasions . |
| 57 | At one time it was quite obvious that his main sponsor , Essex Petroleum , run by the flamboyant American ex-decorator and former Brussels bus-boy , David Thieme , was in some sort of dire trouble and that this trouble was bound to affect Team Lotus as it did ; Chapman knew I was looking into the complex affairs of Thieme and Thieme 's longstanding relations with Lotus . |
| 58 | At one time it was thought that this was because the dunnock was a recent cuckoo host , but Chaucer 's reference in The Parlement of Foules makes it clear that the dunnock was a popular cuckoo host as long ago as the 14th century . |
| 59 | At one time it was only an affluent few who owned their own houses or capital assets which they could invest to increase their incomes . |
| 60 | At one time it was called ‘ frontier issues of communications ’ , where frontier was meant to indicate WACC 's presence and involvement at the forefront of contemporary thought and action . |