Example sentences of "[v-ing] one [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless you are enormously determined , it is far better to make small changes and build upon them , tackling one area at a time before you go on to the next rather than trying to lose weight , give up smoking , avoid alcohol and set yourself a punishing exercise regime all at once . |
| 2 | Allen and Marian , moving one step at a time , circled it cautiously . |
| 3 | Most of today 's business computers are based on the IBM PC design and , sadly , this is only capable of performing one task at a time . |
| 4 | It is often possible to restrict these by cutting into the ground with a spade along the face of the hedge , doing one side at a time in alternate years . |
| 5 | So as we go through we 're acc we er accepting one word at a time . |
| 6 | Terry B says he had some treatment and lots of help from friends … he goes to meetings every week and he 's enjoying life and taking one day at a time … he 's had one innings and is now enjoying his second |
| 7 | ‘ Obviously I would love to get back to where I was before the injury , but it 's very much a case of taking one game at a time . ’ |
| 8 | When I say a head , that one unit there is like the man was sitting at making one stocking at a time . |
| 9 | I turned round and began to crawl back , still sweeping one hand at a time through the jumbled growth . |
| 10 | The element of time is a chief cause of those difficulties in economic investigations which make it necessary for man with his limited powers to go step by step ; breaking up a complex question , studying one bit at a time , and at last combining his partial solutions into a more or less complete solution of the whole riddle . |
| 11 | Psychology studies the individual subject by isolating one variable at a time , measuring how it varies across different conditions , and controlling all other variables . |
| 12 | Word Convert solves the kind of puzzles seen in many magazine competitions where a given word is converted into another by altering one letter at a time . |
| 13 | Because trying to meet this criterion has occupied so much of my research time in the past two decades it is worth spelling out again that to adopt a reductionist methodology in research strategy — that is , to try to stabilize the world that one is studying by manipulating one variable at a time , holding everything else as constant as possible — is generally the only way to do experiments from which one can draw clear conclusions . |
| 14 | ‘ Over a period of one year we were continually evaluating our frac pack job performance , changing one component at a time until we achieved well performance that has virtually eliminated problems caused by damage near the well bore , ’ Park says . |
| 15 | In practice this might mean changing one department at a time . |