Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is evident , too , that everyone is doing this at a time when thoughts of recession could easily exclude any charitable action . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |