Example sentences of "on the [noun] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At our windy centres , in addition to one long board each ( necessary for light winds and racing ) , we have enough shorter boards ( 260 to 300cm ) to put more than half our guests on the water at a time , and there are always more rigs than boards . |
| 2 | Not uncommonly only half of the sieves required may be mounted on the shaker at a time , so the pan residue from the coarser fraction is released into the upper sieve of the finer part of the nest in order to complete the analysis . |
| 3 | The LTTE for its part blamed government forces , saying that the killings were " meticulously planned and executed , and blamed on the LTTE at a time when the Sri Lankan government is trying to purchase weapons from Middle Eastern Moslem countries " ( a reference to a visit made by Ranjan Wijeratne , Plantations Minister and Minister of State for Defence , to Iran , Libya and Egypt in early August ) . |
| 4 | Stuart is too good to be kept on the sidelines at a time when England have looked to include him in the B squad as the next stage of his international career . |
| 5 | She recalled the Italian prisoners-of-war in their unsoldierly uniforms who had worked on the estate for a time towards the end of the war ; she made civil mention of another of Leon 's countrymen who had sold ice-cream on Norwich market when she was a girl . |