Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it was found that the most effective way of comparing aircraft was to compare two aircraft at a time ( C.H. Gibbs-Smith , 1942 , Aircraft Recognition , 1(2) ) . |
| 2 | The real difficulty lies in the fact that CD-ROM can only process one type of data at a time . |
| 3 | I prefer not to stretch a net across the pool , for two reasons : it hinders viewing of the fish at a time when their colours are at their best , and it is a nuisance if the need arises to so any in-pond maintenance , such as washing foam pre-filters . |
| 4 | He gave me 50p at a time for my fares and lunch . |
| 5 | It had large sales for a time in England and America , but it had neither the originality nor the power of his first book . |
| 6 | What must be done is to find the new position in spatial coordinates of the particle initially at xj after a time interval — t . |
| 7 | By the morning of the game the sports shops of Paris were locked , with staff supervising the doors , allowing only two people at a time into the shop . |
| 8 | To be supporting people at a time of impending loss does not of itself mean that we have to be doing ‘ counselling ’ . |
| 9 | The two-day introductory course is designed for two to four people at a time , though more can be accommodated at Jerome 's other restaurant in Yvetot itself . |
| 10 | A PLOT 70 15ft which just accommodates three people at a time hardly seems a typical garden to open to the public . |
| 11 | Scotrail can not be so terminally stupid that they are unaware of the numbers of people wanting to use the train in the summer , and therefore a train that accommodates more than four people at a time may well be required . |
| 12 | The Dreadnought trams , with their double staircases , were ideal for this — as seen here — and four of them could move 360 people at a time ! |
| 13 | Firstly , Ilie Peter , the director of the orphanage , plans to find room in his house for a machine knitting school for about ten handicapped people at a time . |
| 14 | And lastly , but by no means least , are the tsunami effects , vast tidal waves usually generated by undersea earthquakes : those tsunami have been responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people at a time when they struck low-lying coastal areas . ’ |
| 15 | The large concentration of circulation in the late 1960s was due to the Mirror Group 's purchase of the Daily Herald and the People at a time when Murdoch had not yet arrived to challenge the dominance of the Daily Mirror over the tabloid market . |
| 16 | Again Moses pleads for the people at a time of crisis . |
| 17 | A Compact will provide you with priority access to able and skilled young people at a time when the demographic trends show that there are fewer and fewer school leavers every year . |
| 18 | These are two week holidays for 30 people at a time . |
| 19 | Oh aye , five hundred people at a time went to them , and |
| 20 | Up to 40 young people at a time are homeless in Gloucester . |
| 21 | I mean I can see a typical lot of people at a time |
| 22 | An infectious outbreak among the staff at a time when holidays are at a peak will be more difficult to manage . |
| 23 | ( For example , they may wish to increase staff at a time when government is committed to reducing civil service numbers . ) |
| 24 | An 8 bit bus can move one whole byte at a time ( a byte is made up of eight bits , and a bit can have one of two values — off or on ( often annotated as 1 or 0 ) ) down the parallel lines , whereas a 16 bit bus can shift two whole bytes . |
| 25 | Such access , which is limited to one byte at a time , is sufficient for setting and reading screen locations or " flags " , but it is difficult to use for building more complicated data structures . |
| 26 | When accused of promoting sales at a time when they were incapable of supplying the electricity , the Board chairmen were robustly defensive . |
| 27 | The company says catering for first time buyers is boosting sales at a time when other builders are reporting big losses . |
| 28 | Lyell 's second volume raised the question of the geographical distribution of species at a time when Darwin was well placed to study this phenomenon . |
| 29 | In a large frying or saute pan put a slab of butter ( I use a good quality butter and find that it pays to prepare 2 lb. at a time since it keeps almost indefinitely and is immeasurably superior to fresh butter for frying bread , croquettes , rissoles , fish cakes , veal escalopes , fish à la meunière and a score of other tricky cooking jobs ) . |
| 30 | Poland 's Isabella Zatorska , in her marathon debut , took the women 's $5000 in a time of 2:38:05 with Soviet Valentina Lunyegova right on her heels and another Pole , Czeskawa Mentlewicz narrowly squeezing under 2:40 to make the national squad . |