Example sentences of "at a time as " in BNC.

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1 The tables and the chairs , the cups and the spoons , the stains on the wall , the dust on the floor , the ache in my mind — all these things and everything else in sight mercifully receded for whole minutes at a time as my eyes took in the picture of that girl with the black hair , the pale face and the red boots .
2 Shooting sometimes lasted twenty hours at a time as the extras were treated to squab , caviar and champagne .
3 Knitters who have not practised the partial shaping may be casting off one stitch at a time as they were first taught to do or casting off in this way to retain a firm shoulder seam .
4 Thus the ladder is sinking into the ground one step at a time as the client climbs on to it .
5 Then try to think of one thing at a time as you write .
6 The coloured boxer looked into the referee 's eyes , then watched his fingers ; he was raising them one at a time as he counted .
7 : You can only really see one eye at a time as they 're right on the side of the head .
8 You probably found the passage difficult , and it would have been even more difficult presented one word at a time as it was in the Dooling and Lachman experiment .
9 Although oxygen is a good oxidising agent ( atom or molecule that accepts electrons from the molecule it oxidises ) , restrictions on the direction of spin of the electrons it accepts means that it usually accepts these one at a time as shown in the following equations :
10 She managed to walk with a reasonable degree of grace and dignity till she reached the back door , then scuttled inside as though her very life depended on it , taking the back stairs two at a time as she rushed to the bedroom to find a robe .
11 Millions visit Czechoslovakia every year but only for two or three days at a time as services are poor .
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