Example sentences of "[adj] at one time " in BNC.

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1 He had been too lordly to do this at one time , preferring to give them as Christmas presents .
2 She was very unfashionable at one time but I remember reading and enjoying her books .
3 Er instead of buying ready-made er dresses I suppose which wer became er very popular at one time with the Indian girls and the Pakistani girls .
4 So in , parcel or parcels , going from one address to another at one time in one load that is a consignment .
5 and then she used be spotless at one time !
6 She had as many as six at one time , usually whippets and pekinese , and one even gave birth to a litter in the bedroom .
7 Two of the local clowns , Richard Clarke ( Mary 's son ) and Ian Cross , who had lived in Bellerby all their lives , said this would have been unthinkable at one time — when they were children everybody knew everybody else , and what went on .
8 It was not thought too good at one time , so I was sent to Slough General Hospital for an X-Ray .
9 Peru too , looked good at one time and should have led UK publishers into the Andean Pact countries , but in fact the shining path has led elsewhere .
10 ‘ Well , you must remember , Mr McKillop , that the information I got from Elsie on that topic was n't given to me all at one time .
11 Although nobody ever remarked upon the fact , it was tacitly acknowledged now that Nails slept with Firelight ; he had been discovered by them all at one time or another early in the morning still asleep .
12 Because of these complexities , friendships with the Willses tend to be built up step by step and to become all the more valued because their qualities are seldom revealed all at one time .
13 Never before had Bodmin seen so many faces … and so many happy faces all at one time !
14 Allowing then that Handel must have owned several harpsichords , though perhaps not all at one time , the identity of the harpsichord in the Mercier portrait may be of some interest .
15 Was it right to present this all at one time to the boards for them to pick and chose , or should practical issues , such as board operations , have been introduced first , before asking them to consider larger educational issues ?
16 All at one time ?
17 You do n't have to have them all at one time ?
18 stick tea bag in it now , cos I mean it used to be tea did n't it , all at one time ?
19 Oh yes very much so very much so there always has been , yeah they used to call them the faithful four thousand at one time .
20 One therefore has the dichotomy of examining what is reasonable at one time ( ie the start of the contract ) , whilst also examining the ultimate purpose of the restraint at another ( ie the end of the contractual period ) .
21 It was pretty rough at one time , but whatever it 's like now it will be better , surely , than some posh hotel . ’
22 Combine these two flaws and there 's often a lack of players on-screen at one time — the scanner does n't help matters as it 's too small to be of any use .
23 The rest were available at one time or another .
24 Any three of six filter blocks can be mounted simultaneously , increasing the changeover speed and the choice of excitations available at one time .
25 I remember being shocked at one time when I heard one of my predecessors say that his objective as chairman was to retain our position as a private company operating on a world basis in the chemical sector .
26 The excitement was enough to push Scottish 19p higher at one time .
27 Was that big at one time ?
28 Was a micro chip like really big at one time ?
29 The carrying of the riding mechanic , which was vital at one time , was dropped in 1925 because of its danger .
30 All the parishes used to be different and it used to be possible at one time to know approximately where in Orkney somebody came from .
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