Example sentences of "[det] [n mass] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’
2 Having won two of this series in the fastest times already , he would have had to finish four seconds behind the steeplechaser Mark Rowland to lose the first prize of £5,000 .
3 When fired at a school of fish , these seem to act like a shotgun , disorienting many fish at the same time .
4 It 's useful when you 've got to contact lots of staff or get information to many people at the same time and allows you to put detailed information down .
5 Spoken messages can be stored in electronic mailboxes and retrieved by telephone , and by several people at the same time — because the messages are not recorded as on a tape recorder , but on electronic pulses in the computer 's memory .
6 Modelling several series at the same time is more appropriate in certain circumstances .
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