Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did a little research at the time of the East German business . |
| 2 | There was a strong sense at the time that the novel needed an agenda . |
| 3 | ‘ I understand … that it was a strong impulse at the time . |
| 4 | As a Lower boy at the time I came before the Lower Master . |
| 5 | It seemed quite a tall order at the time but in practice it worked out well and proved to be a most enjoyable experience as well as one of our more memorable tours of duty . |
| 6 | Addressing questions to a class of primary school children in a rural school at the time of the Passover , I asked them about places in the Bible where there were sheep . |
| 7 | Consequently , you need to build and send a complete line at a time . |
| 8 | Such a title , and a book written by a political figure at a time of great controversy … |
| 9 | ‘ The Hell Fire Club were something of a social embarrassment at the time . |
| 10 | You see the Italians when they vote in that referendum , I 've discussed it with quite a few cousins at the time , it was n't they 're exactly |
| 11 | The Glass-Steagall Act and the McFadden Act prevented banks from operating in more than a few states at a time , and also restricted their scope for involvement in the securities markets and other financial services — areas where their international competitors already had wide powers . |
| 12 | If the bottom is not too weedy I constantly twitch the bait along the bottom a few inches at a time . |
| 13 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 14 | ‘ The barrow now belongs to you , so never let it or the pitch out of your sight for more than a few hours at a time . ’ |
| 15 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 16 | Now , for just a few minutes at a time , focus on this image — and stir in desire . |
| 17 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 18 | These played for only a few minutes at a time . |
| 19 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 20 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 21 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 22 | The apparatus required for imprinting , and then for measuring the efficacy of the imprinting response , was large and elaborate ; it was impossible to train more than a few birds at a time . |
| 23 | But there were a few tears at the time were n't there ? |
| 24 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |
| 25 | So in his late anthology , Confucius to Cummings ( New York , 1964 , with Marcella Spann ) , he explicitly preferred George Chapman 's Homer to pope 's , even though he had admitted that Chapman is unreadable , except for a few pages at a time . |
| 26 | Once he went below , if she turned the boat in that direction , just a few degrees at a time , would he notice ? |
| 27 | The three of them began to creep slowly down the hill , moving from tree to tree , but no more than a few yards at a time . |
| 28 | Those of the nightshade , tomato and several other plants , however , do so through a small opening at the tip , through which the pollen falls a few grains at a time . |
| 29 | There are undoubtedly great advantages to the student if a staff member transmits his ideas and experience to only a few individuals at a time in a tutorial session . |
| 30 | Poach all the mixture a few spoonfuls at a time , draining the cooked ‘ islands ’ on a folded tea towel . |