Example sentences of "[prep] a time as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also pursued a political career , acted for a time as secretary to ( Viscountess ) Nancy Astor [ q.v. ] , and stood unsuccessfully as an Independent parliamentary candidate for Brentford and Chiswick in 1918 , 1922 , and 1923 . |
| 2 | And enables you to move your skillbase over a time as well . |
| 3 | The tables and the chairs , the cups and the spoons , the stains on the wall , the dust on the floor , the ache in my mind — all these things and everything else in sight mercifully receded for whole minutes at a time as my eyes took in the picture of that girl with the black hair , the pale face and the red boots . |
| 4 | Shooting sometimes lasted twenty hours at a time as the extras were treated to squab , caviar and champagne . |
| 5 | Knitters who have not practised the partial shaping may be casting off one stitch at a time as they were first taught to do or casting off in this way to retain a firm shoulder seam . |
| 6 | Thus the ladder is sinking into the ground one step at a time as the client climbs on to it . |
| 7 | Then try to think of one thing at a time as you write . |
| 8 | The coloured boxer looked into the referee 's eyes , then watched his fingers ; he was raising them one at a time as he counted . |
| 9 | : You can only really see one eye at a time as they 're right on the side of the head . |
| 10 | You probably found the passage difficult , and it would have been even more difficult presented one word at a time as it was in the Dooling and Lachman experiment . |
| 11 | Although oxygen is a good oxidising agent ( atom or molecule that accepts electrons from the molecule it oxidises ) , restrictions on the direction of spin of the electrons it accepts means that it usually accepts these one at a time as shown in the following equations : |
| 12 | She managed to walk with a reasonable degree of grace and dignity till she reached the back door , then scuttled inside as though her very life depended on it , taking the back stairs two at a time as she rushed to the bedroom to find a robe . |
| 13 | Millions visit Czechoslovakia every year but only for two or three days at a time as services are poor . |