Example sentences of "[adj] at one time " in BNC.
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1 | She was very unfashionable at one time but I remember reading and enjoying her books . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | and then she used be spotless at one time ! |
4 | 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 . |
5 | It was not thought too good at one time , so I was sent to Slough General Hospital for an X-Ray . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 ) . |
8 | It was pretty rough at one time , but whatever it 's like now it will be better , surely , than some posh hotel . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The rest were available at one time or another . |
11 | Any three of six filter blocks can be mounted simultaneously , increasing the changeover speed and the choice of excitations available at one time . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Was that big at one time ? |
14 | Was a micro chip like really big at one time ? |
15 | The carrying of the riding mechanic , which was vital at one time , was dropped in 1925 because of its danger . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | He came pretty close at one time . |
18 | It is possible for more than one social role to be relevant at one time . |
19 | Now there is another , another part it 's very nice and that is round Lane and er Road and all round there used to be very nice at one time . |
20 | ‘ With the previous pans we used you had 22lbs of chips ready at one time and about half way through you tended to lose the quality because some of the chips would get sweaty . |
21 | I tell you what I nearly wa , I nearly did end up like he did , I was frightened at one time ! |
22 | This may have been true at one time , when the vast majority of commuters were middle-class , but it does not apply in the postwar period when large numbers of commuters have been ‘ reluctant ’ villagers , constrained by the availability of cheap housing to living in the countryside ( Pahl 1965b ) . |
23 | It was fashionable at one time to see this process crudely in terms of mere military subjugation . |