Example sentences of "[noun] at [art] time [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knitters who have not practised the partial shaping may be casting off one stitch at a time as they were first taught to do or casting off in this way to retain a firm shoulder seam . |
| 2 | His girlfriend was chatting up some big-shot drama critic at the time as well . |
| 3 | ‘ The truth is , no one was further from my mind at the time than my god . |
| 4 | Deep acting medicines ( Lycopodium , Calc Carb etc. ) can be used several times daily and repeated for months at a time if necessary . |
| 5 | There were U A B , Unemployment Assistant Board and there was a means test at the time as well . |
| 6 | There 's also support for multiple columns , although you ca n't see more than one column at a time unless you 're in Page Preview mode . |
| 7 | : You can only really see one eye at a time as they 're right on the side of the head . |
| 8 | However , the effect did not last for more than two days at a time because Owen 's diet was still too high in white sugar and chemical additives . |
| 9 | Millions visit Czechoslovakia every year but only for two or three days at a time as services are poor . |
| 10 | I was in the control area with Mala at the time so I had to suffer through it . |
| 11 | The teacher can work in the classroom with one group at a time while the rest of the class are engaged in something needing minimal supervision . |
| 12 | ‘ I supported the principle of the community charge at the time because I thought the principle was right . |
| 13 | He also keeps the same brigade for years at a time because staff turnover in contract catering is not as rapid as in hotels and restaurants . |
| 14 | Well when we came here of course we had certain furniture and we just sort of er , er and we , I do n't know what other people did , we just erm furnished a room at a time until we got |
| 15 | To buy food for a day at a time because there is no pantry in which to store it is to meet higher bills at corner stores than would be involved in larger purchases from supermarkets . |
| 16 | He flicked quickly through to the section covering Surrey , then proceeded a page at a time until he reached his goal . |
| 17 | The West Stand will be out of commission at the time because of the ground 's redevelopment , which has started with the construction of stands to replace the north and south terracing . |
| 18 | Unless you are enormously determined , it is far better to make small changes and build upon them , tackling one area at a time before you go on to the next rather than trying to lose weight , give up smoking , avoid alcohol and set yourself a punishing exercise regime all at once . |
| 19 | Add brandy a few drops at a time until pale and fluffy . |
| 20 | But I could n't tell that it was the Queen Mary at the time because he 'd already cut it out . |
| 21 | The station at Stamford was built in a plain Tudor style and was described by the Stamford Mercury at the time as ‘ in an Elizabethan Style similar to Burghley House ’ . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | The director , Jean-Christophe Amman , foresees having to close a floor at a time if the city is unwilling to subsidise its costs . |
| 24 | You probably found the passage difficult , and it would have been even more difficult presented one word at a time as it was in the Dooling and Lachman experiment . |
| 25 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 26 | And if you get fed up of moving text one tab stop at a time if you go alt P you then actually remove all of the paragraph formatting that you add and it takes you back to your starting position . |
| 27 | Then try to think of one thing at a time as you write . |
| 28 | We were probably all busy out in the fields at the time since it happened at the beginning of September . |
| 29 | Always prepare one meal at a time if at all possible . |
| 30 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |