Example sentences of "at [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent up the accent and made the audience laugh by suddenly relapsing into cockney at odd times . |
| 2 | ‘ I can be there at odd times . |
| 3 | Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again . |
| 4 | Most of us have no idea how much we actually pay for services , because in fact we do buy parts at odd times when they are needed , so the cost is spread out over the year . |
| 5 | Yevdoxia , who had grown up with the belief that sex was disgusting even at normal times , had refused to take any more of it , ever . |
| 6 | The castle is in the care of the Department of the Environment and can be visited at normal times . |
| 7 | This stuff , this human stuff , at normal times ( and in civilized locales ) tastefully confined to the tubes and runnels , subterranean , unseen — this stuff had burst its banks , surging outward and upward on to the floor , the walls , the very ceiling of life . |
| 8 | Unfortunately for domestic cats , their human owners rarely have the time to offer them mouse-sized meals , preferring to spoon out big dishfuls of cat food at feeding times . |
| 9 | Watch your fish carefully at feeding times to ensure that they are all behaving well and that all the fish are obtaining some food . |
| 10 | When first purchased my specimen hardly ventured out of its hidey-hole , a flowerpot , but after a year it can be seen hopping out of its hideout at most times of the day — particularly at feeding times . |
| 11 | Then it stays in the burrow alone , visited only at feeding times , for nearly two months . |
| 12 | The plan started to work within a few day he became shy and nervous of humans even at feeding times . |
| 13 | British Gas is selling at eight times earnings while British Telecom commands a 9.5 rating . |
| 14 | Protestors complained of forms being resold at eight times the original price , and accused officials of reserving share applications for family and friends . |
| 15 | Wolverton was an area of narrow Nonconformist faith , and our comings and goings at strange times were viewed by some with disapproval and suspicion , especially since we could not really explain the necessity for the shift work . |
| 16 | Light at strange times , rooflines |
| 17 | The shares will be valued at 9.85 times estimated earnings , and yield 5 per cent gross on a 1p notional dividend this year . |
| 18 | Overall , the annual sales of the top performers grew at 4.5 times the rate of the underperformers ; their returns on those sales were 2.5 times higher . |
| 19 | I was allowed up to chatter with the older men about the good old days on Le Manche , when my grandfather had not only held serious philosophical and religious conversation with les pecheures over his loud hailer , but had also been in to Boulogne harbour as thanksgiving for a market or two in Hastings at needy times . |
| 20 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 21 | Cohen ( 1973 ) describes how , at specific times , certain public crimes generate ‘ moral panics ’ directed at ‘ folk devils ’ or scapegoat groups . |
| 22 | The timing of training sessions was investigated in some depth and the importance of fitting the training to a particular time of year and to a particular size of training package at specific times of day was revealed . |
| 23 | We may argue that temperate animals and plants must ‘ concentrate ’ on coping with winter , and that only a few manage to do so ; or that because life is so seasonal , temperate animals and plants are thrown into greater competition at specific times of year , than in the tropics . |
| 24 | Also available from Bisque is the battery-powered , remote-control Bagno-Stat , which allows you to pre-set the towel radiator heater to come on at specific times and maintain required temperatures . |
| 25 | The biblical perspective of divine revelation is of God speaking at specific times addressing himself to particular situations . |
| 26 | That was an enormous transformation from the world where you only met gay people at specific times of day in specific places under specific circumstances . |
| 27 | Employers , therefore , had less reason to associate for defensive purposes since although trade unionism did represent a challenge to employers ' power to manage ‘ it was manifest as a threat to specific employers in specific industries at specific times and places rather than as a general threat to employers as a class ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 286 ) . |
| 28 | In reality husbands demand meals at specific times , small children cry when their stomachs are empty , the hour that might be spent cooking competes with the hour that ought to be spent washing the floor or changing the beds . |
| 29 | Second , there are ‘ coupling constraints ’ , which reflect individuals ' commitments to engage in specific activities at specific times ( work , school , or appointments ) which may be at odds with the timing of public transport services . |
| 30 | This means not only office staff , who bear the brunt of system usage , but teaching staff , who must retain specific decision-making roles , and , last but not least , the students themselves , who must have faith in the system 's accuracy and ability to provide records and timetables of appropriate quality at specific times and on demand ; |