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Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [det] [adj] time " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	But progress may nevertheless be very slow and unemployment will persist for some long time .
2	Erm I did know at that particular time know what it was to have holes in my shoes , and a piece of cardboard put into it to protect your foot from the hole .
3	Mick , I honestly do n't know at this present time .
4	Fewer teachers have difficulties in responding to reminders that children share substantial common ground regardless of whatever special attention they may need at any one time .
5	This would still leave the vaults of the Prado in Madrid with approximately five times the number of paintings that it can display at any one time .
6	This is a common type of dialogue box containing more information than the box can display at any one time .
7	In your first year , half an hour of concentrated thought on a specific topic may be as much as you can do at any one time .
8	A person 's actions can be explained in terms of his following of tacit conventions , but our knowledge of the rules will not allow us to predict what he will do at any given time .
9	These stock yards covered 500 acres and could accommodate at any one time 75,000 cattle , I25,000 sheep , 300,000 hogs , and 6,000 horses .
10	‘ Because that 's one of those questions we could debate for some considerable time . ’
11	And , if it is at all possible , the number of changes which could occur at any one time is better curtailed and staggered .
12	Or perhaps the New Horizons people would prefer you to buy WinMail , which Software Partners also have on their lists at the same price — we 'll perhaps look at that another time .
13	We 'll look at that some time .
14	Everybody who is watching that particular channel at that particular time has tuned in to watch the cricket .
15	We have just er er spent two hours looking at a report whether that will be the report we 'll use at that particular time needs to be agreed yet .
16	Your work wo n't always fit into these ideal time slots , but at least you 'll know why you 're less productive at other times .
17	How he disciplined himself to make ends meet in that difficult time he explained in his book What To Do When Someone Has Debt Problems , A Practical Survival Guide ( 1985 ) , in the Introduction to which he wrote :
18	All in all a total of seventeen strands of training can progress at any one time , ranging from Adult platoons to Junior Leaders and Territorial Army recruits .
19	I certainly would not say that this is what should happen at this particular time , no .
20	He will also appreciate having his memory jogged as to what he should record at any given time .
21	The Colonial Secretary , now Lennox-Boyd , invited Nkrumah to visit London but he would not leave at this critical time .
22	If society in all its aspects has always been in a state of flux , it is highly unlikely that this process will end at any particular time .
23	But I 'll write about that another time .
24	The boat did n't come at any scheduled time .
25	You c You can er you can in fact have up to er you can find in you ex in your will as many people as you like but no more than four executors can prove at any one time .
26	Er and obviously we 'll , we 'll we 'll get the response erm a a as it were but erm that 's something I could n't , I could n't answer at this particular time .
27	‘ Well , let's talk about that another time . ’
28	could we talk about that some time ?
29	The ethics of bargaining are debatable ; there is scope for unjustifiable coercion ; and equal treatment as between applicants can be abandoned in favour of charging what the market will bear at any particular time .
30	There 's only so much that anybody 's brain can handle at any one time so let's just do a little experiment because there was a chap called George Miller an American psychologist who worked on this idea of what is the capacity of the brain , how many bits of information can the brain hold on to at any given time .