Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] one time [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | The reports prepared by the local authority 's social workers indicate that initially all the children made good progress with the foster mother and at one time their adoption by her was contemplated . |
2 | Besides his political activities Mr. Thomas also found time for lecturing on literary , philosophical and ethical subjects in many parts of the country , and at one time he lectured almost every Sunday in the Town Hall for the Battersea Ethical Society . |
3 | This has created severe financial problems and at one time he was heavily in debt to the bank . |
4 | He was a director of public companies , the proprietor and editor of a journal , gas inspector and expert witness , and at one time he owned a gold mine ; he did his work in a laboratory of his own … |
5 | They were obviously attracted to the boat by the number of ‘ gulls-in-waiting ’ , and at one time there were fourteen of these handsome pirates flying around . |
6 | And at one time it was UK policy for fertiliser use to be encouraged by direct grants and subsidies . |
7 | [ Ascariasis in man : The type species , Ascaris lumbricoides , occurs in man , and at one time it was not differentiated from A. suum , so that the pig was thought to present a zoonotic risk for man . |
8 | You are a professional photographer , and at one time you pursued your calling at certain two-storey premises in — um — Silmour Street , is that correct ? ’ |
9 | A woman present asked if Elizabeth were my sister , and at one time I wished she had been — but better not , for she would have lost an adored and incalculable mother and gained a dreadfully unhappy home ; and it would be a pity if we had shared the same literary material . |
10 | I was an old London man myself , and at one time I was manager of the branch in Upper Thames Street — that 's going back to just after the war . |
11 | STAMFORD is usually referred to as having fourteen churches in the medieval period , but at one time there was a fifteenth , dedicated to St. Thomas . |
12 | Saint-Savin today is small , even for a village , but at one time it was the centre of power in this valley . |