Example sentences of "at [det] one time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dioecious Xerospermum noronhianum ( ‘ X intermedium' , Sapindaceae ) in West Malaysia has a prolonged sequential development of flowers on each inflorescence as well as the sequential development of the inflorescences themselves , making a small number of flowers available at any one time but ensuring economy by not producing excess flowers within a short period ( these would not be pollinated owing to the low density of pollinators ) . |
| 2 | The RSPCA estimate that the UK has about 500,000 stray dogs on the streets at any one time and that about 1,000 dogs are destroyed every day . |
| 3 | A higher proportion of staff will have trainee status at any one time and extra staff will be needed for the supervisory role . |
| 4 | If hypnotics are prescribed , enough tablets for only a few nights should be given at any one time and the medication stopped once the period of distress is over . |
| 5 | The rules of the infirmary permitted the honorary medical staff ( and later the house-surgeon ) to take on such pupils , but how many there were at any one time and whether they were resident or not was seldom recorded . |
| 6 | Such relations both define the form of inequality between places at any one time and also help set the scene for the next form of uneven development . |
| 7 | Each character was hand-crafted , relatively few sizes were available at any one time and there were limits to the maximum size available so that other methods were often used to generate headlines and so on . |
| 8 | The main drawback of the compose screen is that only two staves are displayed at any one time and it is not possible to smoothly scroll across the page which is divided into set sections . |
| 9 | This proposition amounts to an efficiency explanation of both the variety of organizational forms that exists at any one time and the way in which the pattern of organizations in the commercial world evolves over time . |
| 10 | You can borrow up to six items at any one time and most items you borrow are due back in 28 days ( not a month ) , but some in heavy demand are due back in 14 days . |
| 11 | Clearly , only a percentage of lesions bleed at any one time and it may be that screening favours the detection of more slowly growing tumours ( length or time bias ) . |
| 12 | These high-ranking bureaucrats , of whom there were normally two or three at any one time and who had always long practical experience of international relations , controlled the day-to-day working of the machinery of French diplomacy and were of critical importance to its effectiveness . |
| 13 | The guts of birds may contain seeds of more than one species of plant at any one time and , in eastern North America the greatest mixing of seeds and consequential passing of seeds in faeces is of seeds from fruits with low nutritional quality and , perhaps not surprisingly , of small rather than large seeds . |
| 14 | The General Board shall have power to accept or refuse the application and , if it accepts it , to determine , in consultation with the professor concerned , the number of students whose names may be on the register at any one time and the method of their selection . |
| 15 | The datafile is able to deal with up to four hundred records at any one time and it is at this stage that the school librarian has to decide on the number of data disks which will be needed . |
| 16 | They deliberately limit the number of guests to six at any one time as they aim to preserve the home-from-home atmosphere . |
| 17 | Fifth , release for in-service training should be increased to 5 per cent of the further education teaching force at any one time as soon as resources are available . |
| 18 | This is the money required to make up the difference between what the company can pay and what it owes at any one time or , in accounts department terms , net current assets minus current liabilities . |
| 19 | This is the money required to make up the difference between what the company can pay and what it owes at any one time or , in accounts department terms , net current assets minus current liabilities . |