Example sentences of "[det] [noun] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | whether they 're correctly or incorrectly go through it , each each bit at a time , show me how you 're checking it . |
| 2 | each bit at a time . |
| 3 | Trodd says that he supported that decision at the time . |
| 4 | I did a little research at the time of the East German business . |
| 5 | He and Mother must have thought a great deal of the place to go to that expense at a time when money was so short . |
| 6 | The Glass-Steagall Act and the McFadden Act prevented banks from operating in more than a few states at a time , and also restricted their scope for involvement in the securities markets and other financial services — areas where their international competitors already had wide powers . |
| 7 | I do not know what consideration had been given to a prosecution of the defendants in this case at the time the letter was written . |
| 8 | We know people were treasuring this hope at the time of Jesus , because in the caves of Qumran there has turned up a messianic anthology which includes the prophecy given to David in 2 Samuel 7:14 . |
| 9 | There was some hope at the time of the Maastricht negotiations that the centralising tendencies of the European Community would be checked by the ‘ principle of subsidiarity ’ . |
| 10 | The apparatus required for imprinting , and then for measuring the efficacy of the imprinting response , was large and elaborate ; it was impossible to train more than a few birds at a time . |
| 11 | I had some sympathy at the time , but not anymore . |
| 12 | If we again discount this income at the time or get it looks like that . |
| 13 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 14 | Now , for just a few minutes at a time , focus on this image — and stir in desire . |
| 15 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 16 | These played for only a few minutes at a time . |
| 17 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 18 | All she knew was that she was cold and hungry and thirsty , that she had not slept for more than few minutes at a time and that all her thoughts were with Tristram . |
| 19 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 20 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 21 | The two areas did differ in the level of statutory service provision ; in Ipswich , home help input was available only two or three days a week for up to one and a half hours at a time , and a financial assessment and payment for home help had recently been introduced . |
| 22 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 23 | ‘ The barrow now belongs to you , so never let it or the pitch out of your sight for more than a few hours at a time . ’ |
| 24 | You 're sure to spend a good few hours at the time playing this fun sports sim — so do n't for get the suntan oil ! |
| 25 | Although they began to be replaced in the more advanced parts of China by bronze coins by the middle of the first millennium B.C. , they still circulated in some provinces at the time of Marco Polo 's visit during the late thirteenth century . |
| 26 | Part of the explanation is that artificial selection changes only a few characteristics at a time , whereas in nature many changes occur simultaneously . |
| 27 | Celsus senior may have been very advanced to arrive at this conception at the time he did . |
| 28 | I felt my way along , a few steps at a time , and every time I heard a voice or a footstep I stopped dead , clinging to whatever bit of masonry was under my hand and almost cowering with fright . |
| 29 | For a while Elaine was cared for by young volunteers who used to come and stay with her for a few months at a time . |
| 30 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |