Example sentences of "at a time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't taken more than a week off at a time and I need some rest . ’ |
| 2 | By the early eighteenth century in Scotland and Northumberland , the bulk of crops were housed in ricks , the barns consequently being small with space for housing only one rick at a time and a threshing floor . |
| 3 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |
| 4 | Add the cream a little at a time and finally add the freshly chopped herbs . |
| 5 | Like many animals which only produce one young at a time and may not breed every year , individuals are potentially very long lived , fifty or sixty years may not be unusual for some . |
| 6 | Here took place the famous séries , five to a season , each one lasting eight days , when 80 guests were invited at a time and it was in the drawing up of these guest lists that the Empress deployed all her social skills . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He chose to favour us one at a time and the others were left out in the cold . |
| 9 | The Gyrovap can cope with 240 samples at a time and is appropriate for water as well as organic solvents . |
| 10 | With these restrictions , anaphor resolution will consist of an alternation in which the focus process suggests one or more candidates at a time and the reasoner evaluates them , deciding whether they are plausible and , if there is more than one , which is the best . |
| 11 | If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable . |
| 12 | The wash down would be done with one leg up at a time and an impatient queue waiting behind . |
| 13 | Loans are made for one year at a time and a student may apply only once in any year . |
| 14 | The sole practitioner is usually working on one or two assignments at a time and consequently can keep track of costs and profitability relatively simply . |
| 15 | Discovered by accident behind partitioning this magnificent interior has been restored and re-erected a tile at a time and now must surely be one of the most exciting in Paris and a monument to the glory of La Belle Epoque . |
| 16 | Weekly markets were often held in the churchyard where buyers and sellers could meet after church ; it was natural , therefore , that the fair should be established at a time and place where many people were gathered . |
| 17 | From the beginning they took on ‘ trainees ’ in evangelism and church planting , first one at a time and then in small groups and now they run a carefully organised evangelistic training programme called Network . |
| 18 | Bring them in one at a time and show them a series of articles such as a pot , a plate , a flask and a small stool . |
| 19 | The digits move along one step at a time and eventually arrive at the end of the chain whereupon they are fed along the line . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Bodies are shaped several at a time and come off the machine almost ready to finish . |
| 22 | The best way to learn these modes is to take them one at a time and examine the construction of each one . |
| 23 | The remedy may change , or in acute injuries more than one remedy may be required , but in classical homoeopathy the remedies are administered one at a time and not as a mixture . |
| 24 | It felt an ordinary place , but my father 's friend , Billy Llewelyn , could play the saw , grow black carnations , go without sleep for three weeks at a time and expand his chest from thirty-six inches to fifty-two inches in three breaths . |
| 25 | ‘ I feel nothing but disgust that these bombs should be planted at a time and in places where ordinary people are going to work . ’ |
| 26 | Cuddling Flossie close , Robert said : ‘ I 'm feeding her a little bit at a time and she is looking much better already . ’ |
| 27 | On the return of No. 16 to Sutton , the remainder of the J type were sent to Hendon one at a time and similarly rebuilt , except that they retained four windows . |
| 28 | The Crystal Palace tram terminus was on a gradient and it was ruled that if the crew wanted to take their break there , in the busmen 's canteen round the corner on the Parade , they must go one at a time and not leave the car unattended . |
| 29 | London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 . |
| 30 | Seeing the cramped , coffin-like quarters in which fifty men had to live , eat , sleep and fight , often in appalling weather for up to six weeks at a time and knowing how marginal were their chances of survival , I could n't help but admire the resolution that had kept them fighting , their morale undimmed , until the very end . |