Example sentences of "[verb] at [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 2 | Erm we used at one time as you remember to have a full time education officer and er for a number of reasons er that er is no longer the case . |
| 3 | Augmentations are worth searching out , for there is many a manor , grand house , or estate which has at one time been owned by an eminent person in receipt of an augmentation of one kind or another — and there is almost certainly a good tale to tell . |
| 4 | It had the added distinction of being edited at one time by Nelson Mandela , the ANC leader now in prison . |
| 5 | It must have looked at one time as though I 'd follow the family tradition and end up permanently on a farm . |
| 6 | Royal Insurance Holdings continued to ignore the drip of the John Spalvin share sales , gaining at one time 20p . |
| 7 | She was rich , beautiful , clever and amusing , and her wit became renowned ; she was featured in the picture papers , in the scandal sheets , and everyone of consequence was reported at one time or another to be going to marry her . |
| 8 | Sir William Pickering was Knight Marshal to Henry VIII , and when he died in 1542 he left Oswaldkirk to his 24-year-old son , an extremely handsome and distinguished courtier and diplomat , brave and wise as well , and considered at one time as a suitor for Queen Elizabeth . |
| 9 | When a point is conceded at one time then that becomes the baseline for future expectations . |
| 10 | 2000 can dance at one time |
| 11 | Use a variety and put it in more than one spot , if you have space , to allow more birds to feed at one time . |
| 12 | Although the Freer 's holdings have increased dramatically since the gallery opened — only 8% of the collections can now be exhibited at one time — it is nonetheless impossible to expand above ground near the Mall . |
| 13 | I live in France now , and I 'm married to a Frenchman , but my introduction to drama was through an amateur dramatic society in Stanmore , where we were living at one time . |
| 14 | He did n't come quite under the heading of despised male sex but she was sure he had done at one time . |
| 15 | we done all that erm Wa , Walkman all that sort of thing we 've done at one time or other . |
| 16 | It was chaired at one time by Peter Wright , author of Spycatcher . |
| 17 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 18 | Briefly , their ‘ epidemic ’ model proposes that , from a stable endemic baseline , the number of new cases of heroin use ( incidence ) in a community increases rapidly for four years before peaking at ten times the level of initial endemic incidence in year five , and then dropping sharply to the previous endemic level during years six and seven ( see Figure 3.2 ) . |
| 19 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 20 | If we now turn our attention to the hero-literature of ancient Greece , it is notable that just about every prominent hero does battle at one time or another , and sometimes repeatedly , with Amazon women . |
| 21 | If he does not , he has in effect accepted at one time the proposition ( the matter put upon the mat ) ‘ Telling even a minor lie to advance one 's career is always wrong , even though it harms no one ’ and at another time ‘ Telling a minor lie , which harms no one , in order to advance one 's career is not always wrong ’ . |
| 22 | Of course , all parents ( and teachers ) are beset at one time or another by disobedient children . |
| 23 | For instance , who amongst us has not said at one time or another : |
| 24 | This is like the selective employment tax operated at one time in the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | Protestors complained of forms being resold at eight times the original price , and accused officials of reserving share applications for family and friends . |
| 26 | O K , so financial underwriting , is on a hundred thousand and above , you look at four times salary . |
| 27 | The shares will be valued at 9.85 times estimated earnings , and yield 5 per cent gross on a 1p notional dividend this year . |
| 28 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 29 | It was thought at one time that a Mareva injunction was a remedy only available against foreign defendants , perhaps because the risk of assets being removed was usually greater and more obvious in such cases . |
| 30 | A particular substance , tetra-hydro. iso-quinolone ( THIQ ) , was thought at one time to be the active chemical " cause " of addiction but this is no longer thought to be precise cause . |