Example sentences of "[prep] one time it " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one time it was up 10.0 points . |
| 2 | At one time it was widely believed that there had been a great rise in the birth-rate ; there was , in fact , a slow rise to the end of the 1861–70 decade , after which the rate began to fall . |
| 3 | At one time it was the law that rape is committed only where the woman submits through force , fear , or fraud . |
| 4 | At one time it must have been a waiting room for clients . |
| 5 | And at one time it was UK policy for fertiliser use to be encouraged by direct grants and subsidies . |
| 6 | At one time it was supposed that the ammonoids were suffering from ‘ racial senescence ’ at that time and that the uncoiling represented a kind of genetic exhaustion . |
| 7 | At one time it was thought that the brain reached its peak of potential performance when the individual was between the ages of 18 and 25 years and that , from that time onwards , it began to deteriorate . |
| 8 | At one time it was assumed that the best approach was one of stealth and caution , particularly as the most productive place to fish was invariably no more than a rod 's length away from your own bank . |
| 9 | At one time it seemed that the best approach to the problem would be to reduce the level of lead in petrol , but not to eliminate it altogether . |
| 10 | At one time it was common for French soldiers to leave their wives with dildos ( artificial penises ) when they marched off to war , to reduce the risk of adultery while they were away . |
| 11 | At one time it was a Country club , now it is an hotel and a very popular venue for wedding receptions and other festive occasions . |
| 12 | At one time it was quite obvious that his main sponsor , Essex Petroleum , run by the flamboyant American ex-decorator and former Brussels bus-boy , David Thieme , was in some sort of dire trouble and that this trouble was bound to affect Team Lotus as it did ; Chapman knew I was looking into the complex affairs of Thieme and Thieme 's longstanding relations with Lotus . |
| 13 | At one time it was thought that this was because the dunnock was a recent cuckoo host , but Chaucer 's reference in The Parlement of Foules makes it clear that the dunnock was a popular cuckoo host as long ago as the 14th century . |
| 14 | At one time it was only an affluent few who owned their own houses or capital assets which they could invest to increase their incomes . |
| 15 | At one time it was called ‘ frontier issues of communications ’ , where frontier was meant to indicate WACC 's presence and involvement at the forefront of contemporary thought and action . |
| 16 | At one time it was the Swanage headquarters of the Company of Marblers and Stonecutters . |
| 17 | Saint-Savin today is small , even for a village , but at one time it was the centre of power in this valley . |
| 18 | At one time it simply commented on an offender 's suitability for probation , but following the recommendations of the Streatfeild Committee in 1961 , the probation service was encouraged to make more general recommendations as to sentence , in addition to the provision of more factual information concerning the offender 's character and personality , social background , educational record , employment and prospects . |
| 19 | Indeed , at one time it was believed that requiring a natural left hander to use his right hand for writing would induce speech defects , such as stuttering , as a result of coopting the left hemisphere into language functions in competition with the right hemisphere ( Travis , 1931 ) . |
| 20 | At one time it was thought that high-fibre diets containing bran would be successful , but this has not proved to be the case . |
| 21 | The new remedy rapidly encroached upon the spheres of trespass and replevin so that at one time it looked as if any ‘ asportation ’ or moving of the property might be regarded not only as a trespass to it but also conversion of it , but this very wide doctrine was restricted to a principle that the dealing with the goods must amount to a denial of the owner 's title . |
| 22 | At one time it was fashionable to argue that Darwinism destroyed the traditional belief that Nature had been created by a wise and benevolent God , thereby ushering in an age of rampant materialism . |
| 23 | At one time it was called the ‘ Leigh toaster ’ after the small town near Manchester where it was made . |
| 24 | Markets are not inanimate objects or systems , although at one time it was fashionable to regard them as being so . |
| 25 | For example , so detailed was the Texas Instruments integrated circuit catalogue that at one time it was the standard specification reference work for electronic component buyers . |
| 26 | At one time it was thought that the same applied to an incorporated company , except that the company itself held its assets as trustee for its members . |
| 27 | Er there must have been a at one time it , it had been six o'clock I think it was a quarter to six we finished . |
| 28 | At one time it was not uncommon for a retailer to display an exemption clause in his premises or include it in a written contract even though that clause was rendered totally ineffective by Act of Parliament . |
| 29 | At one time it was only precious metals . |
| 30 | At one time it was thought that not many photographs were taken of the Bishop 's Castle Railway , especially of No 1 , the ex GWR Tank Locomotive , which shares the honours with ‘ Carlisle ’ as being the last two engines to work the line . |