Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 32 | First , only a handful of people have spent more than a few weeks at a time in space . |
| 33 | The boy would spend a few weeks at a time with his father and when Sheila one day came to collect Scott , she mentioned that she felt she might well marry again . |
| 34 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 35 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
| 36 | For a few weeks at a time , staff and Library visitors will be able to see a succession of paintings from this talented group . |
| 37 | They 'll work in France for a few weeks at a time staying in hotels . |
| 38 | Add brandy a few drops at a time until pale and fluffy . |
| 39 | Wash the specimens gently in two changes of distilled water ( not tap water , which contains Fe and Ca ) for only a few seconds at a time — the stains are relatively soluble . |
| 40 | For a while Elaine was cared for by young volunteers who used to come and stay with her for a few months at a time . |
| 41 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 42 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 43 | A few men at a time could have manipulated each of these stones into position , yet the collective force of the place feels not reduced accordingly . |
| 44 | The wind group , as we have said , less frequently stands alone , and then only for a few bars at a time . |
| 45 | It was hard for him to scrape together more than a few coppers at a time . |
| 46 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 47 | I felt my way along , a few steps at a time , and every time I heard a voice or a footstep I stopped dead , clinging to whatever bit of masonry was under my hand and almost cowering with fright . |
| 48 | The two areas did differ in the level of statutory service provision ; in Ipswich , home help input was available only two or three days a week for up to one and a half hours at a time , and a financial assessment and payment for home help had recently been introduced . |
| 49 | I found this difficult to believe , but erm judging by the number of pigeon forecasts , race forecasts that we issue , erm we 're very often talking about a quarter of a million pigeons at a time flying from A to B , and we provide the forecasts for these federations that race these pigeons , and there are a lot of pigeons flying about . |