Example sentences of "at a time [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the morning of the game the sports shops of Paris were locked , with staff supervising the doors , allowing only two people at a time into the shop . |
| 2 | Delaney and Forster reached Lawton who helped them one at a time into the boat . |
| 3 | ‘ This is where the great man sat to write , ’ intoned Samuel , as they pushed -half a dozen at a time into the small study , with its huge jutting window overlooking the sea . |
| 4 | If you want to use three or four colours in one row on a Passap/Pfaff machine you will need to punch your card or mark your mylar sheet especially for the design but you need to mark only one row at a time as the machine automatically knits the two rows . |
| 5 | If you 're gon na wait three days at a time for the local copper to turn up , |
| 6 | I mean when you 're working for a week at a time with the same blokes week in week out I mean you get to know them really well . |
| 7 | The walk can be done all in one go or in sections — for many it might be easier to tackle two days at a time at the weekends . |
| 8 | He 's not sleeping for more than two hours at a time at the moment . |
| 9 | well there the sort that you only want about a couple at a time at the most |
| 10 | a series of instructions which would normally be issued one at a time on the keyboard to control a program . |
| 11 | Sort of on the , on the horizon for the end of the year and er I , I er do n't know how we 're going to do but erm I think the answer probably is to take a chunk at a time on the basis that erm one is n't going to be able to charge around as violently , actively as some people will . |
| 12 | erm I could lecture you for hours at a time on the subject . |
| 13 | I understand that the electronic intarsia carriage selects the needles for only one colour at a time to the intarsia position , making it easy for you to lay in the appropriate colour . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell the housekeeper she must count the needles , and only give out one at a time to the girls — they lose them so easily ! |
| 15 | Notice that we can specify only one at a time of the gates controlled by such a field , so we must encode as one group only gates which need never be opened together . |
| 16 | Everyone has had a reasonable work-out and we 've been very fortunate with the weather at a time of the year when you can have a lot of matches ruined by rain . ’ |
| 17 | He says our feeling is very much that that 's the right idea , beacuse it enables the place to be used for quiet enjoyment at a time of the week when most people are free . |
| 18 | I turned round and began to crawl back , still sweeping one hand at a time through the jumbled growth . |
| 19 | The man proceeded a few jolting feet at a time through the excruciating heat . |
| 20 | From the edit screen you can play back your composition one voice at a time through the PC speaker . |
| 21 | For me the most dangerous aspect of the job has been not so much the very real dangers in the field as the psychological vertigo of alternating for months at a time between the utter extremes of the planet ; from the film markets of California 's Hollywood Hills , where I rented an A-frame , to the remotest jungles of the East . |
| 22 | Carroll in Forest Gate argued that ‘ class legislation ’ was impossible , ‘ especially at a time like the present when the nation is stirred to its very vitals by unemployment and general stagnation of trade ’ ( Election leaflet 1921 ) . |
| 23 | Once it was clear that the room could not be held , he would order its evacuation , men leaving two at a time by the far window . |
| 24 | Franco pulled glasses two at a time from the sink and set them on the tiny draining board . |
| 25 | Armed with sophisticated sensors to detect subtle chemical and microparticle changes that are known to occur annually , the GISP2 team set out to measure annual layers in the Summit ice core one at a time from the surface to the last glacial period some 18,000 years ago . |
| 26 | two at a time from the stack |
| 27 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 28 | We soon learned to give animals the right of way in the swamps , sitting for hours at a time in the dugout , watching elephants plod by . |
| 29 | Thereafter , warrants were issued for only two months , though they could be renewed for one month at a time in the case of those issued to the police , and six months at a time in the case of those issued to the security services . |
| 30 | Thereafter , warrants were issued for only two months , though they could be renewed for one month at a time in the case of those issued to the police , and six months at a time in the case of those issued to the security services . |