Example sentences of "two at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They wheel you down in batches , two at a time , throughout ops day . |
| 2 | Can you climb two or three flights of stairs , reasonably fast and taking the steps two at a time , and not end up breathless ? |
| 3 | I do occasionally move through the range two at a time e.g. 4,6,8 but as often as not that is because I 've economised in not buying all the potencies ! |
| 4 | The stimuli to be used in the test phase were presented two at a time and the subjects were asked to describe the pair as ‘ same ’ or ‘ different ’ as appropriate . |
| 5 | Most of the overwintered hives had survived , with the help of bread soaked in ale every couple of weeks , and now they were unwrapped , one or two at a time in case of a late frost , and set up in sheltered corners . |
| 6 | He took the treads up the great staircase two at a time , a demonstration of his boyish energy . |
| 7 | Franco pulled glasses two at a time from the sink and set them on the tiny draining board . |
| 8 | Then he made for the stairs , taking them two at a time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Two at a time ! ’ |
| 11 | But the new vans specially built to convey this traffic were 27ft long and capable of holding two at a time , the forerunner of the car flats of the 1970s and '80s . |
| 12 | After a few minutes she decided to take another two tables and then continued taking two at a time until she had swallowed about 30 . |
| 13 | As I pointed out above , as the newcomers settled into established communities here and there and one or two at a time , many social relations between incomers and Shetlanders were created from the simple neighbourly needs for advice and help with house repairs and so on . |
| 14 | He wo n't go upstairs two at a time . ’ |
| 15 | Two at a time ? |
| 16 | Her head pounding , she took the stairs to the second floor two at a time . |
| 17 | When the moment passed , Delaney took the stairs two at a time . |
| 18 | She was obliged to follow , stumbling after him as he took the ladder two at a time . |
| 19 | Stephen took the stairs two at a time and threw open the bedroom door to see Tamar , sitting up in the big fourposter bed , nursing their son . |
| 20 | Much of the certifieds ' training is done by correspondence course and , until the final exams that must be passed in one sitting , they are able to tackle the lower stages over a five-year period , taking one or two at a time . |
| 21 | When this had been done they made to go downstairs again , but I was in front of them going down two at a time . |
| 22 | I told him they were in bed and I dashed up the stairs , two at a time , to fetch them . |
| 23 | They went into the hall together ; then Joe watched Martin take the stairs two at a time , and the maleness of him , his virility seemed to leave an aroma behind him . |
| 24 | Branch members run the shop on Saturdays , two at a time in two shifts . |
| 25 | The fishermen were lifted out two at a time by a DHC Beaver floatplane and ‘ DRD was repaired . |
| 26 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 27 | Confine the selection to one or two at a time . |
| 28 | The algebraist is , however , little interested in what the integers are ; he is mainly interested in the fact that these integers , whatever they may be , are added and multiplied together , two at a time , according to the following axioms ( where we use the symbol " . " |
| 29 | I generally take two at a time , but then I 've had a lot of practice . |
| 30 | unc Consider as partitioned , the solution is ( see ( 2 ) ) unc and unc so that the equations are consistent ; if they are taken any two at a time , the three cases all yield the same answer . |