Example sentences of "[num] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their campaign reached its height in the winter of 1861–62 at a time when the anxieties of both reactionary and liberally inclined sections of the nobility were intense . |
| 32 | Within the Common Market , Britain in 1989 seemed as much the odd nation out as it had been in 1979 at the time of the rancorous Dublin summit , unable to prevent major changes within the Community by responding in a negative , bad-tempered way . |
| 33 | His mother 's death was the first he had been intimately concerned with — his father 's hardly counted , because Peter had been only thirteen at the time . |
| 34 | Er , I , I was only about twelve , thirteen at the time . |
| 35 | They survived , and for entertainment would buy themselves hot potatoes from a stall for their pockets , and explore London , enjoying particularly the spectacle of the horse-drawn fire-engines thundering out of Cripplegate , often six at a time . |
| 36 | As she carried the clay pots , six at a time , from the greenhouse , a light wind scuttled her skirt . |
| 37 | ‘ People have been buying the Mirror as a souvenir , snapping up five or six at a time . ’ |
| 38 | The pilgrims went in after him in groups of five or six at a time . |
| 39 | ‘ It used to get me so angry and I really wanted to protect my mother and help her , but I was only six at the time and there was nothing I could do . |
| 40 | The second I saw was an Alan Ayckbourn , considering that I was only six at the time and I did n't understand some of it I still was enthralled with the acting and enjoyed it almost as equally enough as the panto . |
| 41 | What is also significant is that prescriptions for these opioids were often for large amounts — 50 or 100 at a time . |
| 42 | Richard Baxter was born in Rowton , Shropshire , on Sunday , 12th November 1615 at the time of morning worship . |
| 43 | In 1926 38.3 per cent of the population were Ukrainian as against 37.9 at the time of the 1923 census . |
| 44 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 45 | ‘ This is where the great man sat to write , ’ intoned Samuel , as they pushed -half a dozen at a time into the small study , with its huge jutting window overlooking the sea . |
| 46 | In many cases a group would divide into sub-groups and work on more than three at a time . |
| 47 | Then he put his head down , growled and took the last few stairs three at a time . |
| 48 | He scooped up a stone and leaping the steps to the terrace three at a time , he hurled it through the door and dived after it , hitting the living-room floor flat and rolling twice . |
| 49 | In this chapter we shall look at ways of smoothing the edges off the jagged initial appearance of data plotted over time ; we shall look at the observations three at a time , taking seriously the spirit of this somewhat sarcastic remark , to get indications of the trend . |
| 50 | ‘ Normally we take three at a time . |
| 51 | He ran at the stairs , taking them three at a time . |
| 52 | Suppose we expect the relation ( 1 ) to be unc and suppose further that we have the following experimental table : unc Then in view of ( 5 ) our equations for solutions may be written unc Before we proceed to the least squares solution , let us see what results would be obtained if we solved these equations three at a time , with e taken to be zero for each set of three . |
| 53 | We all got locked in our rooms afterwards and allowed out for meals three at a time . |
| 54 | Siegfried had just begun to take the stairs three at a time when his brother descended from the landing , knotting his tie with perfect composure . |
| 55 | He read the label , then turned and ran downstairs three at a time . |
| 56 | He clattered down the stairs two , three at a time , and almost fell when he reached the bottom . |
| 57 | One possibility is to choose two or three at a time , as above , and then go on to a few others . |
| 58 | Dhani and Ian broke into a run , taking the high altar steps three at a time . |
| 59 | Erm , bases are read three at a time . |
| 60 | Foreign , not too classy , three at a time — that sounds like cabaret to me . ’ |