Example sentences of "[conj] [num] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was about ten or eleven at the time , but I had ‘ known ’ since I was about six . |
| 2 | Mrs Margery Teasdale , of Guisborough , remembers the operas put on by Tippett , even though she was only seven or eight at the time . |
| 3 | The 100 consecutive patients were all Tanner stage 1 or 2 at the time of diagnosis . |
| 4 | ‘ People have been buying the Mirror as a souvenir , snapping up five or six at a time . ’ |
| 5 | The pilgrims went in after him in groups of five or six at a time . |
| 6 | So that was er that was how and I was in I was I was at Well I think I was about nineteen er eighteen or nineteen at the time you know . |
| 7 | What is also significant is that prescriptions for these opioids were often for large amounts — 50 or 100 at a time . |
| 8 | One possibility is to choose two or three at a time , as above , and then go on to a few others . |
| 9 | ‘ We were nine or ten at the time . |
| 10 | ‘ They live in all the other rooms , ten or twelve at a time . ’ |
| 11 | She had never questioned his facts ; he had been ten or twelve at the time and she had confidently assumed that he knew what he was talking about . |
| 12 | About 20 technicians have made the trip so far , visiting in groups of four or five at a time to learn about the Swiss-made AISA machines they use . |
| 13 | Then one evening — I must have been 12 or 13 at the time — we were driving back from visiting my nan in Kent . |
| 14 | Twenty per cent of them were aged 7 when first abused , 40% were 12 or 13 at the time . |
| 15 | He went bounding up the stairs , three or four at a time , praying to himself the room had n't been taken over by some amorous couple while he 'd been away , cursing himself for doubting her . |
| 16 | Most of the overwintered hives had survived , with the help of bread soaked in ale every couple of weeks , and now they were unwrapped , one or two at a time in case of a late frost , and set up in sheltered corners . |
| 17 | As I pointed out above , as the newcomers settled into established communities here and there and one or two at a time , many social relations between incomers and Shetlanders were created from the simple neighbourly needs for advice and help with house repairs and so on . |
| 18 | Much of the certifieds ' training is done by correspondence course and , until the final exams that must be passed in one sitting , they are able to tackle the lower stages over a five-year period , taking one or two at a time . |
| 19 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 20 | Confine the selection to one or two at a time . |
| 21 | The man had been secretly hiding away tiny portions of phetam , a drop or two at a time , until he had saved up about half-litre . |
| 22 | After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If I sold them one or two at a time I 'd be here for twenty years . ’ |
| 24 | The population of more than 300,000 at the time of Cook 's arrival had plummeted to less than 40,000 by the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | They came into the possession of my son Hilbert John Adam Verne-Smith under my uncle 's will , bypassing myself , though my son was no more than nineteen at the time of my uncle 's death . |
| 26 | In many cases a group would divide into sub-groups and work on more than three at a time . |
| 27 | She spoke quite often of snowy landscapes glimpsed through carriage windows and small hands curled up in a muff made of grey fur , even though she could not have been more than three at the time . |
| 28 | They were permitted into it only when giving evidence and not more than one at a time . |
| 29 | The DJ provided a link between the music and the audience and his or her commentary on the music became an integral part of the performance , which often involved a variety of other " special effects " such as " scratching " the records , playing more than one at a time , and so on . |
| 30 | He said that we should travel in pairs — never more than two at a time — so as not to arouse suspicion if we met any Germans or Fascists . |