Example sentences of "one at a time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They , along with compositors , paper makers , wool sorters and colliers , had developed the rolling strike , or strike in detail , whereby shops were turned out one at a time with those in work supporting those who were withdrawn .
2 cars one at a time on horse drawn flat trucks , along Canterbury Road and Mitcham Road to dump them on the site in Aurelia Road , which the company had purchased for a depôt .
3 a series of instructions which would normally be issued one at a time on the keyboard to control a program .
4 The principal method of investigation is to show people sentences one at a time on a computer screen and measure the time it takes to understand a sentence .
5 Consequently , Nos. 1–16 were removed one at a time to Sutton depôt , where the track brake gear was removed and fitted to 36–43 , which took their place at Penge depôt .
6 After a few weeks , they were sent away one at a time to Hendon Works for repainting and returned renumbered 345–347 .
7 They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment .
8 conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry .
9 ‘ Tell the housekeeper she must count the needles , and only give out one at a time to the girls — they lose them so easily !
10 Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting .
11 Simple random sampling can be achieved even when no frame is available but where the population members present themselves one at a time as potential sample members .
12 Delaney and Forster reached Lawton who helped them one at a time into the boat .
13 Instead of the medical materialism of Hammer horror , we get a surprisingly restrained treatment of the play 's fuliginous cruelties : even when the Duchess is invaded by a chorus of madmen , they are ushered in one at a time by a beady-eyed supervisor wielding a corrective cane .
14 It goes to the root of the Positivist idea that hypotheses can be tested one at a time by comparing their implications with objective , neutral facts of experience .
15 Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny .
16 CLE-1 , however , always imposes strong preferences , because of the way that reference candidates are tried one at a time in a depth-first fashion , with backtracking to the next candidate taking place when , and only when , the logical form involving the current one is deemed implausible .
17 The chorus is taken by people one at a time in a round
18 If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness .
19 Second , so many features of our own constitutional practices are debated one at a time in just this way , that it is implausible to claim conventionalism as a good interpretation of the process by which our legal culture shifts and develops over time .
20 Down below , two points of red light appear , one at a time like a wink in reverse .
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