Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at one time " in BNC.

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1 Use a variety and put it in more than one spot , if you have space , to allow more birds to feed at one time .
2 All three countries have at one time or another during the 1980s had recourse to the IMF for standby loans .
3 Thirty-four of the company 's reservoirs were contaminated with faecal coliforms , and drinking water was also found to contain excessive levels of pesticide residues. 80 per cent of its water supply areas failed at one time or another last year to meet statutory requirements .
4 The Hong Kong government fears the market may be thinking the same way : in late April it announced legislation to formalise the power of local banks to pay negative interest rates on Hong Kong dollar deposits ( just as Swiss banks did at one time when the Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money into the Swiss franc ) .
5 Expectations had at one time run high , but a parallel case of offence by weakness emerged from the accounts of the home .
6 It is up to 50 feet high , overhanging throughout and wide enough to allow 15 or more teams to operate at one time .
7 If you attempt to have more files open at one time than allowed for BBCBASIC(Z80) , the file will not be created and you will get a " Too many files open " error .
8 It was apparent as the light grew that the rocks which lay scattered among the trees had at one time been arranged in order .
9 With a number of programs running at one time , several windows can appear on the screen at one time .
10 The idea behind Windows is to have a number of processes running at one time , each in its own clearly defined area of the screen — and for the purposes of this review , I 'm counting Program Groups as tiny processes .
11 There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper .
12 Many of the country 's senior religious leaders sat at one time or other in the shade of its trees and listened to the Ayatollah Khomeini 's lectures on the intricacies of Islamic law .
13 Fifteen hundred men worked at one time in what became the largest copper mine in Europe — a vast open-cast quarry hewn out of the hilltop .
14 De Smith has adumbrated four different tests which the courts have at one time or another used .
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