Example sentences of "at a time [prep] " 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 | You can group sounds 12 at a time into banks , or ‘ drumkits ’ and the RY10 comes with 15 preset banks . |
| 4 | You can group sounds 12 at a time into banks , or ‘ drumkits ’ and the RY10 comes with 15 preset banks . |
| 5 | The " target " nature of engineering activities will not , therefore , follow systematically through the design process by converting each stage at a time into a computer-based procedure . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ True , ’ said Julia , ‘ but in Palestine the British army does not burn villages , hang hostages and leave their bodies in village squares for days at a time as a warning , whatever horror they feel at things like the bombing of the King David Hotel and the murders of those sergeants . |
| 9 | Simple random sampling can be achieved even when no frame is available but where the population members present themselves one at a time as potential sample members . |
| 10 | He gave me 50p at a time for my fares and lunch . |
| 11 | He surrounds himself with an entourage of loyal courtiers , some from the store , others from the office , taking several at a time for convivial weekends of dog-walking , tennis and log fires at his country villa on the River Po — a sharp contrast to the rather gloomy , solitary week nights he spends in the industrial wasteland of the Via Borgonuovo . |
| 12 | Eye contact on one person at a time for a complete thought , usually for about five seconds . |
| 13 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
| 14 | By limited liability the state is encouraging management to use shareholder funds in more risky ventures than they would otherwise undertake , and then pass on the liability at a time for forced liquidation , to third parties . |
| 15 | The design is read by the controller and transferred one row at a time for each colour , so we need this odd row to start . |
| 16 | They would draw up a ‘ batting order ’ downstairs then go up to her bedroom one at a time for sex . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This may be from chronic stress , where our stress tap drips constantly a small amount at a time for months or years , or from sudden stress , when we encounter a specific fear , problem or major life event , which causes the stress tap to turn full on . |
| 19 | can we just come back to the pupil comment business , one thing at a time for a moment |
| 20 | If you 're gon na wait three days at a time for the local copper to turn up , |
| 21 | When you have some children who find it very difficult to work with others , one solution might be to work with much smaller groups , maybe even just a couple of them at a time for five minutes or so . |
| 22 | It was intended that John would spend six months at a time with each of his parents , but when Grace was due to have him back , Herbert took her into John 's room , which was the larger of the two bedrooms in the flat . |
| 23 | one-user at a time with a transition towards multi-user system in a LAN ( Local Area Network ) ; |
| 24 | Read a paragraph at a time with emphasis to make the meaning clear . |
| 25 | The boy would spend a few weeks at a time with his father and when Sheila one day came to collect Scott , she mentioned that she felt she might well marry again . |
| 26 | He virtually commuted between London and Sydney , his Australian birthplace , where he would stay for months at a time with his parents , making award-winning films , before returning to London in his safari suit , sun-bleached and fit . |
| 27 | Typically a multi-speaker recognition system , the only sort that is going to be acceptable to users , will allow between 20 and 30 words to be recognised at a time with a success rate of around 85 to 90% . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales . |
| 30 | They , along with compositors , paper makers , wool sorters and colliers , had developed the rolling strike , or strike in detail , whereby shops were turned out one at a time with those in work supporting those who were withdrawn . |