Example sentences of "[noun pl] at some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's got to involve two cars at some time |
| 2 | In fact , over 80 per cent of the women with hysterical or sociopathic disorders had , as children , lived away from both natural parents at some time , and over a third of the men diagnosed in adulthood as schizophrenic had been taken into care during childhood . |
| 3 | Some form of chant continues to be used in most communities at some time , not only because of historic associations , but also because of its fundamental simplicity . |
| 4 | It suggested that up to 20% of the school population might have such needs at some time in their school career ( previously around 2% of children had been legally classed as ‘ handicapped ’ ) . |
| 5 | This is the kind of matter upon which historians will forever disagree , but it may be that Swegen did have his position in Denmark threatened by Swedes and Slavs at some time in the 990s . |
| 6 | The criterion of land under cultivation is crude , and resists refinement : it is exceedingly difficult to say whether in a particular country in a particular decade or generation the rate of growth was steady ; in some places at some times there may well have been local and temporary declines . |
| 7 | It is merely my desire that you complete your studies and take up a form of employ that may be useful for my purposes at some time in the future . |
| 8 | All men refuse to take responsibility for their actions at some time or other during their lives , and some men so consistently shirk their duty that they present more the appearance of overgrown children than of adults . |
| 9 | Whatever the heady consequences of that ( and they have classically been found contradictory ) , Sloman 's explication does not tackle the question of why it is we are conscious of certain things at some times but not at others . |
| 10 | The great majority of English people seem to have moved short distances at some time or other . |
| 11 | Dr Martin Johnson , a scientist speaking for the MRC , said the council spent £5 million last year on embryo and related research to help the 275,000 couples in Britain who have fertility problems at some time . |
| 12 | ‘ We all have these problems at some time . |
| 13 | These types of situation are faced by most law-enforcement officers at some time during their careers and can usually be resolved by keeping one 's temper and sense of proportion . |
| 14 | Most practitioners undertake reviews of procedures at some time or other , whether they are procedures in the commonly accepted sense of the term , ie low-level processes or activities with a set order of steps ( Collins Standard Reference Dictionary ) , or the total activities of an organisation that combine to achieve the purpose of the business as a whole . |
| 15 | IN THE PLAY Julius Caesar , Cassius tells Brutus , ‘ Men at some times are masters of their fate . ’ |
| 16 | My teammates at some time or other included Robert Powell , Leslie Crowther , Steve Davis , Leslie Thomas , John Conteh , Nicholas Parsons , Willie Rushton and Barry Cryer . |
| 17 | Almost all of these men had been in psychiatric hospitals at some time in their lives , especially the younger ones . |
| 18 | ‘ We all make mistakes at some time or other . |
| 19 | In some cases at some times this has led to ruthless persecution with many deaths ( USSR in the 1930s and China in the 1950s ) . |
| 20 | The researchers found 17 per cent of their random sample of Camberwell women to be sufficiently severely depressed to be considered cases at some time in the year : 8 per cent onset and 9 per cent chronic . |
| 21 | A third of all women in Britain now take some form of dietary supplement according to one estimate , and chemicals giant Fisons believes that as many as 40% of the adult population have tried these products at some time . |
| 22 | This must happen to most dieters at some time or another . |
| 23 | Pulling and shying are two problems that we have all experienced with our horses at some time or another . |
| 24 | A new survey claims that more than forty per cent of students at Oxford University have taken drugs at some time . |
| 25 | There are several complaints that may affect women at some time in their lives from period pains and pre-menstrual tension to thrush and cystitis . |
| 26 | There are several complaints that may affect women at some time in their lives from period pains and pre-menstrual tension to thrush and cystitis . |
| 27 | THE dimply lumps and bumps called cellulite affect 80 per cent of all women at some time in their lives . |
| 28 | However , in women , Cystitis is one of the most common medical problems today , which affects around half of all women at some time in their lives . |
| 29 | The pathologists ' evidence and his own observations suggested that James ‘ came by the fatal aspects of his injuries at some time in the early evening on Friday ’ . |