Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | How I could fall asleep at a time like that I do n't know . |
| 2 | What can you do , can you do half at a time , can you |
| 3 | In public hardline rhetoric also seemed appropriate at a time when McCarthy and his communist witch-hunt were riding high . |
| 4 | Bodies are shaped several at a time and come off the machine almost ready to finish . |
| 5 | Moreover , prospects for new publishing ventures seemed bleak at a time when the print runs of even state-owned newspapers were being crippled by an acute paper shortage caused by inefficiency and technological obsolescence in the timber and pulp-and-paper industries . |
| 6 | Maybe we 'll do two at a time . |
| 7 | The stimuli to be used in the test phase were presented two at a time and the subjects were asked to describe the pair as ‘ same ’ or ‘ different ’ as appropriate . |
| 8 | Robert King 's series of concerts and workshops are proving invaluable at a time when authentic performance , a long time in its coming to these northern parts , is fast developing its own passionate audience . |
| 9 | Erm I mean as it is I I can get photocopying for four P a sheet getting fifty at a time , and that give I get a receipt for that which is better than three P a sheet without a receipt . |
| 10 | You can group sounds 12 at a time into banks , or ‘ drumkits ’ and the RY10 comes with 15 preset banks . |
| 11 | You can group sounds 12 at a time into banks , or ‘ drumkits ’ and the RY10 comes with 15 preset banks . |
| 12 | And I felt that I did n't really want to do this at a time when I was still floundering about and not having very disciplined classes and so on . |
| 13 | The problem of drawing a legal line between moral outrage and individual freedom has become intractable at a time when one person 's obscenity is another person 's bedtime reading . |
| 14 | But the new vans specially built to convey this traffic were 27ft long and capable of holding two at a time , the forerunner of the car flats of the 1970s and '80s . |
| 15 | Thus , two new launches had proved possible at a time when new dailies were generally still unpractical . |
| 16 | It is evident , too , that everyone is doing this at a time when thoughts of recession could easily exclude any charitable action . |
| 17 | It seems ironic at a time of mounting concern about the excessive hours of junior hospital doctors . |
| 18 | It seems providential at a time when good news and dreams are in short supply : 430 unknown drawings by Amedeo Modigliani from his eight crucial years in Paris ( 1906–14 ) , which will be published by Noel Alexandre in September . |
| 19 | And there certainly was n't any point in her moving out of her Mum 's to live alone at a time like this . |
| 20 | The danger of the latter approach is that they can be shelved and then become critical at a time when resources are being deployed elsewhere . |
| 21 | He surrounds himself with an entourage of loyal courtiers , some from the store , others from the office , taking several at a time for convivial weekends of dog-walking , tennis and log fires at his country villa on the River Po — a sharp contrast to the rather gloomy , solitary week nights he spends in the industrial wasteland of the Via Borgonuovo . |
| 22 | In the northern hemisphere , summer temperatures are such that many eggs become infective at a time when a population of susceptible foals is present . |
| 23 | After a few minutes she decided to take another two tables and then continued taking two at a time until she had swallowed about 30 . |
| 24 | We kept two at a time , sometimes one and not what not . |
| 25 | This may seem perverse at a time when the old industries have shed the greater part of their workforce , and unemployment is pushing towards the three-million mark . |
| 26 | Now if you have a rolling programme and you wan na say we refurbish four at a time , roughly I would say fifty beds in these two hundred , give or take some money because they vary . |
| 27 | Komatsu has built a robot with eight ‘ legs ’ that move four at a time to propel the machine at 200 metres per hour regardless of obstacles . |
| 28 | ‘ Normally we take three at a time . |
| 29 | Once it was clear that the room could not be held , he would order its evacuation , men leaving two at a time by the far window . |
| 30 | I generally take two at a time , but then I 've had a lot of practice . |