Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it was a large fire , she had never known it have more than one bar on at a time . |
| 2 | Bernard remembers Changi Jail as being a very austere place where a 24-hour guard duty would involve four hours on and four hours off at a time . |
| 3 | And since an expensive loaf caused havoc in St Jude 's and trouble in everybody 's weaving sheds , with demands for higher wages keeping profits down at a time when trade was far from good — when it would probably never rise again to the level of those early , heady days when the machines first came in — then Ben Braithwaite and his dinner guests had reason for their anxiety . |
| 4 | I have n't taken more than a week off at a time and I need some rest . ’ |
| 5 | The wash down would be done with one leg up at a time and an impatient queue waiting behind . |
| 6 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 7 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 8 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereigns were king coins . |
| 9 | Hence there were a considerable number of able and committed prophets around at a time when the gospel they were spreading — a gospel of modernity — was one which their auditors were anxious to hear . |