Example sentences of "[prep] one time [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one time there were silver-winged ants . |
| 2 | ‘ At one time there were dozens of companies which specialised in renting out western paraphernalia . |
| 3 | At one time there were fine frescoes inside by pupils of Giotto , but even these have gone . |
| 4 | At one time there were three mills at Bourton itself , known as the Upper ( or Bourton ) and Lower Mills . |
| 5 | At one time there were 400 tin mines in Cornwall alone . |
| 6 | At one time there were no urban districts — they simply grow up around commercial and industrial interests . |
| 7 | At one time there would be more than thirty children and two teachers . |
| 8 | At one time there was a mill at Kexby , either a windmill or a horse mill , according to one resident . |
| 9 | At one time there were six schools in Kilham and a lunatic asylum . |
| 10 | At one time there were houseboats on the canal , there are now holiday caravans on the canal bank and the canal is no longer used for transport . |
| 11 | Whereas Long Riston used to be totally agricultural with ancillary trades , joiner , blacksmith etc ( at one time there were three blacksmiths in the village ) , it is now still agricultural but in the modern way , and most of the population earn their living in Hull , Beverley and elsewhere in the district . |
| 12 | At one time there were two or three inns , and a little shop in Hive , but ‘ the old order changeth ’ , they no longer exist . |
| 13 | At one time there were nine ins in the village , now there are two . |
| 14 | At one time there was a police inspector and a police constable at the police station . |
| 15 | STAMFORD is usually referred to as having fourteen churches in the medieval period , but at one time there was a fifteenth , dedicated to St. Thomas . |
| 16 | Burton started a Welsh male voice choir — ‘ although at one time there were only two Welshmen in the camp ’ — and at one stage , up at Docking in Norfolk , he seems to have done everything but declare the place an independent colony . |
| 17 | They were obviously attracted to the boat by the number of ‘ gulls-in-waiting ’ , and at one time there were fourteen of these handsome pirates flying around . |
| 18 | John Campbell , aged 52 , a cottar at Giol , said at one time there were nine tenants there who went to America about 32 years since [ 1860 ] , there were at least six in Grastle and Tockmal . |
| 19 | He postulated that at one time there had been an area of land in what is now the Atlantic Ocean allowing plants to move from Spain to Ireland . |
| 20 | Would you say erm at one time there were many more firms ? |
| 21 | Er at one time there was just over about a thousand people employed in Brothers . |
| 22 | Mr G J Martin writes ‘ At one time there was a commercially available post card showing a freight wagon in a Bishop 's Castle Railway yard . |
| 23 | At one time there were two and a half thousand Iranians in town . |
| 24 | At one time there were twenty craftsmen in the workshops — now there are just three . |