Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Decide on three things about yourself that you would like to change and tackle them calmly one at a time . |
| 32 | In contrast three-quarters of those under 40 at the time of interview and three-fifths of the middle-aged ( 40–54 ) were employed after three years . |
| 33 | The pattern of changes in status over the three years since redundancy was broadly similar for those aged 55–59 , 40–54 , and under 40 at the time of redundancy . |
| 34 | It was nearly six-thirty by the time she arrived back at the hotel , having spent more time wandering through Strøget on the way there . |
| 35 | ‘ I really admire you , bringing up four from the time the youngest was only five and working full time . |
| 36 | They are both 19 at the time , and if there 's anything in the world that 's sweeter than being 19 when you 're 37 , it 's being 19 in a street full of whores and dirty bookshops and Chinese restaurants . |
| 37 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 38 | I was about eleven at the time , it must have been just after the war . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Her mother was only about 21 at the time — she had been married when only 13 . |
| 41 | And my little boy was he was only about three at the time and I used to be used to angry at him and my neighbour used to come in and take him . |
| 42 | I was about ten at the time and I found it all a bit frightening . |
| 43 | Hereward was about fifteen at the time . ’ |
| 44 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
| 45 | The fishermen were lifted out two at a time by a DHC Beaver floatplane and ‘ DRD was repaired . |
| 46 | And she was a mother too — she and Varna had a child — a little girl who was about four at the time . |
| 47 | Once Astrid had taken her shopping ( she was about four at the time ) and set her down on a stool by a counter when she tried on earrings in a round mirror on a stand ; a salesgirl with a promotional tray of perfumes approached her and Astrid turned and extended her wrist to sample it . |
| 48 | The thought of caged chicken reminds me of the occasion — I was about seven at the time — when my father lost his rather large , pompous cockbird who dominated his twelve wives . |
| 49 | And you would have been about seven at the time . |
| 50 | Mm I mean my son buys two or even three at a time and |
| 51 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 52 | But most of these approaches still see signifiers as expressing meanings directly , a few or even one at a time ; and therefore as being susceptible , despite their complications , to rational , more or less complete analyses . |
| 53 | So come over here one at a time . |
| 54 | In the case of Kenya , Kenyatta 's age of almost seventy at the time of independence in 1964 meant that the succession issue was alive from the start . |
| 55 | It must have been around two-forty-five by the time I 'd packed up my stuff . |
| 56 | ‘ The trains between Montreal and Toronto are late three-quarters of the time and the new engines break down regularly . |
| 57 | Patients who had relapsed all had a DAI of at least four at the time of relapse . |
| 58 | Rice is a perfectionist when it comes to his art , which he practised as a child in Mississippi by catching bricks thrown at him by his brothers , sometimes four at a time . |
| 59 | Barely twenty-one at the time . ’ |
| 60 | In ulcerative colitis , 114 patients scored 0–3 , 33 scored 4–7 , 16 scored 8–10 , and nine patients over 10 at the time of serum collection ( 0=quiet ; 12=very severe disease activity ) |