Example sentences of "at a time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great carts pulled by as many as six horses at a time came up the roads from the east and waited at Ridgery Butts until a party of people who wanted to cross the forest formed up so that they could travel together . |
| 2 | Bulky household items : up to 3 items at a time collected FREE . |
| 3 | Oh aye , five hundred people at a time went to them , and |
| 4 | The annual report published by HMI has always been a loose-leaf , photocopied document , shoved out at a time designed least to embarrass Ministers . |
| 5 | This takes place at a time prearranged to be mutually convenient . |
| 6 | Two or three thousand at a time turned out to salute their leaders in the military unison of the raised arm and the clenched fist . |
| 7 | There is none of the discrete lumpiness we saw in our first experiment when a bullet at a time hit the screen , now here , now there . |
| 8 | Anna stayed in the paddock , and her only contact with people was when she was chased into a yard and chute for worming and branding , or else had two legs at a time strapped up to facilitate an occasional trimming of her hooves . |