Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was with the architect Colin Campbell [ q.v. ] , to whom he acted as assistant for a time . |
| 2 | Not on the amount were if you think the health 's , I mean the Health Service buy sort of forty at a time , erm , so , you never know . |
| 3 | Their campaign reached its height in the winter of 1861–62 at a time when the anxieties of both reactionary and liberally inclined sections of the nobility were intense . |
| 4 | It is suggested above that no public library can satisfy demand for all these types of material — least of all at a time of diminishing resources . |
| 5 | Had I known that he intended to throw his claim to the leadership into the ring within a matter of hours , I would have tried to dissuade him from it then and there , for people never like being bounced , and least of all at a time of emotional stress . |
| 6 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ No , one of those at a time is quite enough , ’ replied David grimly . |
| 8 | Expulsion of the women 's group would mean a significant drop in the total membership of 500,000 at a time when numbers joining are declining . |
| 9 | Expulsion of the women 's group would mean a significant drop in the total membership of 500,000 at a time when numbers joining are declining . |
| 10 | The only practical problem at the time was that I would have to take the orchestra on its American tour in the first months of 1955 at a time when I was contracted to conduct a new Ring cycle at La Scala , Milan . |
| 11 | Ari tried to wriggle away from him a little , somehow annoyed he could say a thing like that at a time like this . |
| 12 | Several questions remain unanswered : would the police force be split into three at a time when the government is trying to rationalise the service . |
| 13 | But because the scale was this funny thing of well two of them means one hundred , you 're going along two at a time and it happens so often . |
| 14 | Truman owed a personal debt of loyalty to Louis Johnson , who had served as treasurer of Truman 's re-election committee in 1948 at a time when most commentators had consigned the President to ignominious defeat at the hands of Governor Dewey . |
| 15 | ‘ It is a measure of the level of the people with which he was dealing , in that at a time when he thought he might be a witness in another case , he was assaulted rendering him unconscious and his house was the subject of an arson attack . ’ |
| 16 | The last Briton to hold the world mile record , WG George in 1886 with a time of 4min 12 ¾sec , was at Motspur Park on August 28 to watch Wooderson 's attempt . |
| 17 | Russell was taken up in this for a time , he even wrote wonderful piece on the foundations of geometry couched in erm a sort of vaguely dialectical form , which in later life he erm pronounced as being complete rubbish . |
| 18 | The Widdicombe Committee was appointed in 1985 at a time of high political controversy about the activities of certain local authorities . |
| 19 | She first went to Vietnam in 1985 at a time when the country was still much more closed to journalists than it is now , full of enthusiasm that she was finally fulfilling a long-time ambition . |
| 20 | Known as mamluks ( an Arabic term meaning " owned " ) this army raised in the slave markets of the Caucasus and beyond , took over power in 1250 at a time of Mongol threat from the east . |
| 21 | The breed was recognised in 1853 at a time when Tyssandier d'Escours did much to improve it , partly by using the red Devon which , in turn , is now being boosted with Salers blood . |
| 22 | Beveridge had presented his report in 1942 at a time when it was overwhelmingly agreed that there should be no return to the conditions of the 1930s . |
| 23 | She had , by then , been with Virgin for six years , and brought the company much success , in particular during a time of economic crisis for Virgin . |
| 24 | Ledingham 's time was 92.00 ahead of Connors on 96.63 and himself on Garraun in third with a time of 98.54 . |
| 25 | Tradesmen 's vans , builders lorries , furniture vans ( brought by night , twelve to twenty-five at a time , ) followed into the Road Vehicle Shop gate , their mechanical condition as varied as their outward appearance , to be fitted in the first place with a double wooden box lined with pebbles — a Heath-Robinson contraption , but resistant to machine-gun fire at close range . |
| 26 | The State Department said : ‘ Many people were killed in groups of up to 50 at a time . ’ |
| 27 | In contrast , a play could be performed to thousands at a time . |