Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tap Right with the Scroll Lock ON to scroll right 1/3 Of a window at a time |
| 2 | Tap Left with the Scroll Lock ON to scroll left 1/3 Of a window at a time |
| 3 | Although you can only work on one piece of a garment at a time , you can have up to sixteen separate pieces in each garment file , as long as they will all be knitted to the same stitch and row tension . |
| 4 | Each screw should be adjusted a quarter of a turn at a time , to maintain the correct height relationship and prevent undue force on the V-slots and knife edges . |
| 5 | It was a bit of a pill at the time and y used to pay a shilling in the pound , well a shilling was a lot more valuable than it is now and erm I used to begrudge paying in it forty eight and sixpence but it does provide the , well the pleasures of life now , whereby the pens the ordinary old age pension would n't . |
| 6 | In this method , the attainment of a child at the time of the test is compared with his or her attainment at time of entry to the school . |
| 7 | It 's good to get out of the atmosphere of a Home for a time . ’ |
| 8 | For example , what , if any , knowledge is required on the part of a payer at the time of payment to entitle him to recovery at a later date ? |
| 9 | Around the corner are exhibits illustrating 18th and 19th century life in Teesdale , including a re-creation of a kitchen of the time . |
| 10 | Nintendo Co has lost a bid to keep competitors from selling devices that modify its video games after the US Supreme Court refused to hear its arguments against an appeals court ruling in favour of Lewis Galoob Toys Inc , which offers Game Genie , which plugs into the Nintendo Entertainment System and cartridges , enabling players to use a simple code to change up to three elements of a game at a time ; the appeals court wrote that because Game Genie does n't cause any permanent change to the Nintendo cartridges — and is dependent upon a cartridge and the Nintendo system in order to operate — it does not usurp Nintendo 's copyright ; Nintendo said Game Genie violates a copyright owner 's exclusive right under the Copyright Act of 1976 to authorise or prepare derivative works . |
| 11 | In the initial phase of the project this proved impossible , in terms of equipment and volunteers , but was remedied to some extent later by Operation Merlin , whereby intensive efforts provided round-the-clock monitoring for periods of a month at a time . |
| 12 | This meant that the men on each farm , with the addition of certain seasonal workers like the company of sheep-shearers , agreed with the farmer to bring in the harvest on ‘ piecework ’ — so much per acre of crops ; or perhaps they would contract to get the harvest in during the period of a month from the time they started ; or instead of a month some agreements would state Twenty Four Fine Days . |
| 13 | You 'll have a lot of a headache by the time I 've finished . |
| 14 | She turned a key four times a day — a quarter of a millimetre at a time . |
| 15 | I suppose it was n't really that much of a morning by the time you got home again . |
| 16 | He decided to feature John , who was out of a job at the time . |
| 17 | If Brian and John were engaged in a get-away from the scene of a crime at the time of the accident , John could also raise the defence of ex turpi causa ( illegality ) to the action . |
| 18 | It was a bit of a catch-phrase at the time . |
| 19 | In view of what I am about to relate , it would not be proper of me to identify the manoeuvre any more precisely , though you may well guess which one I am alluding to if I say that it caused something of an uproar at the time , adding significantly to the controversy the conflict as a whole was attracting . |
| 20 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 21 | Apollonius Molon was heard in the Roman Senate without the help of an interpreter in the time of Sulla ( Val . |
| 22 | The TVX system is effectively a camera-on-a-chip : camera and lens are integrated onto one chip about the size of a postage stamp , and it is designed to provide visual verification of the cause of an alarm at the time of an incident , and provide a method to distinguish actual emergencies from false alarms . |