Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swan had made half-a-million by the time he was thirty , he had chaired the Planning Committee of the Arden District Council for the past ten years , and he was not the sort to give in easily . |
| 2 | Maybe we 'll do two at a time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | United , leading 3-0 at the time , conceded two goals at the final whistle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You can group sounds 12 at a time into banks , or ‘ drumkits ’ and the RY10 comes with 15 preset banks . |
| 7 | You can group sounds 12 at a time into banks , or ‘ drumkits ’ and the RY10 comes with 15 preset banks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Furthermore , the procedure for Questions , with ministers answering Questions from the two sides of the House alternately , means that , on average , the Government side ( backbenchers and ministers combined ) will take three-quarters of the time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We kept two at a time , sometimes one and not what not . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Normally we take three at a time . |
| 15 | Gavin Nebbeling was a tall , upright , South African central defender who played for the Palace throughout the 1980s , but his career was continually dogged by injury and this rather limited his value , although his League appearances exceeded 150 by the time he moved on to Fulham in the summer of 1989 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I generally take two at a time , but then I 've had a lot of practice . |
| 18 | Erm , bases are read three at a time . |
| 19 | For the long observations ( b , c , e ) the power spectrum was estimated exactly as above , with periodogram estimates grouped 20 at a time , except for the lowest two points , which represent groups of 10 . |