Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are several methods of extending our rule to cope with this problem , all of which are essentially ways of considering programs restricted so that we only need worry about a finite set of values at a time . |
| 2 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 3 | Taking small sections of hair at a time , pull your hair over the Flexi Comb and tuck under the edge . |
| 4 | A crucial distinction turned out to be whether the stimuli were presented only to one side of fixation at a time or simultaneously to both sides . |
| 5 | President Guillermo Endara ended on March 13 a 13-day hunger strike which he had reportedly undertaken in solidarity with the most needy of Panamanians at a time of severe economic crisis . |
| 6 | The bitterness of war put an end to the beautifying of houses for a time . |
| 7 | I do n't like just doing research without communicating it , and I think if you 've got an interest and you can communicate it well to people , then it stimulates their enjoyment and of course in a time when there 's going to have to be more and more leisure I think that 's very important . |
| 8 | And I think if you 've got an interest and you can communicate it well to people , then it stimulates their enjoyment , and of course in a time when there 's going to have to be more and more leisure , I think that 's very important . |
| 9 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 10 | On the one hand for many lone mothers benefits provide a relatively stable and secure source of income at a time when there may be no other alternative . |
| 11 | Somebody with a £100,000 portfolio who deals £5,000-£10,000 worth of stock at a time will be protected from the worst stocks , doubly so if he is lucky enough to be in the hands of a dealer with a longer-term commitment to his profession than average . |
| 12 | Hobhouse concerned himself directly with the evolution of mind at a time when the behaviourist dogma had not yet arrived to inhibit such a discussion . |
| 13 | So all that was really achieved then was Rachel 's temporary peace of mind at a time when she was n't well . |
| 14 | Witches were also accused of using herbs to ease the pain of labour at a time when the Church held that pain in childbirth was the Lord 's punishment for Eve 's original sin . |
| 15 | ‘ The KPNLF is anxious to put on a show of force at a time when the US Congress is debating future aid to the non-communist resistance factions . ’ |
| 16 | From the Cape comes wool , skins , fruit etc. etc. , while from France we often get 3,000 sacks of chestnuts at a time . |
| 17 | It amounted , they said , to a total alteration of the law of the land and the establishment of a permanent act of insolvency at a time when trade was embarrassed and credit had sunk to its lowest ebb . |
| 18 | Young children have great difficulty in handling more than one set of variables at a time , so there is a need for a fair degree of simplification . |
| 19 | The real difficulty lies in the fact that CD-ROM can only process one type of data at a time . |
| 20 | To recommend further financial investment in the area of research at a time of serious retrenchment in H.E . |
| 21 | When he and others advocated extra divisions in the Edwardian period they could not have foreseen that the formation of a Third Division in 1920 would create an extra demand for players of talent at a time when a large part of the male population had been wiped out in a world war . |
| 22 | perhaps six pints of blood at a time . |
| 23 | I have one pair of shoes at a time , and I wear them out pretty quick because I 'm doing all the canvassing for our lot . |
| 24 | The move may seem relatively trivial , but it is a telling comment on the declining position of the Church of England at a time when it least needs it . |
| 25 | Internationally , there were already questions being asked about the place of sport in a time of war . |
| 26 | MAS will charge for its services in connection with the above programme of work on a time basis . |
| 27 | He staged a counter-attack which brought him back into power in 1769 , but at the price of a financial disaster from which he never recovered ; money was borrowed to buy shares with which to create votes for the election of directors at a time when the value of the Company 's stock collapsed . |
| 28 | Rusche and Kirchheimer themselves admit ( 1939 : 102 ) that imprisonment became the standard method of punishment at a time when the demand for prison labour had fallen as a result of technological and other developments . |
| 29 | It certainly might have helped Diana to listen and learn from counselling sessions , where other couples ' problems are aired and discussed ; but there is no doubt that by taking on the role of patron at a time when the world was prophesying doom for her own marriage was an exceptionally brave thing for her to do . |
| 30 | They 're transplanting their cottage garden a handful of plants at a time from their present home to the new house they 'll be moving to in November . |