Example sentences of "at [adv] one [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One year a thunderstorm washed out a lot of buttercup petals , so at 8am one Sunday morning , ladies were to be seen heading for the well to make running repairs before the blessing of the well took place in the afternoon .
2 An arrangement may be made so that you look at only one person who ‘ interprets ’ what is said , through writing or clear speech , but awareness of the ‘ feel ’ of the meeting and possible eye contact can not be easily conveyed at second hand .
3 Life in the Balearic islands moves at only one pace — slow .
4 Indeed , at no election since 1935 has a party obtained more than 50% of the votes cast , yet at only one election since that time has a government been returned without a majority of seats .
5 If the condition for oscillation is met at only one frequency then essentially sinusoidal oscillation will occur at that frequency .
6 Where courses are offered at only one teaching centre , it would be possible to make significant progress by initially devolving responsibility for assessment only to the college , while maintaining for the time being central control of the course content .
7 Qaddafi , at only one point , seems to say that states may be legitimate if they coincide with nations : ‘ The nation-state [ al-dawla al-qawmiya ] is the only polity harmonious with natural social structure . ’
8 They possess two pairs of fins , or their derivatives , limbs : two is the minimum number of lateral extensions of the body needed to generate a vertical force through any point on the body ( one pair could generate a force at only one point , and three pairs are one too many ) .
9 Here the upper parts move together at only one point ; at all others they overlap .
10 Moreover , under the optimality theory the outcome does not depend on patterns of pleiotropy , and could in theory be reached by fixation of alleles each with an effect on fitness at only one age .
11 At 8.00p.m. one June night we laid a carpet of rice , hemp and casters .
12 But if we look at just One part of that story in detail , we find complications .
13 They have all been directed at just one target : the Shah .
14 A moment 's fear smote her then that he might leave it at just one kiss , and with more daring than she had known she possessed she leaned her lightly clad body against him .
15 At his solicitor 's office in Camden , north London , he told how he had been arrested when about 15 police officers came to his rented flat at 6am one morning in January , nearly three months after the bombing .
16 Last night a benefit concert was set to take place at the Bristol Bierkeller , featuring Extreme Noise Terror , perhaps Britain 's foremost thrash band , now legendary for turning out songs which clock in at under one second .
17 In those experiments in which Ac-ASA uptake was measured at both one hourand two hours ( n=3 , mean ( range ) ) , the results were 30.7 ( 17.5–38.3 ) nmol/g and 36.4 ( 20.7–47.1 ) nmol/g respectively , both at an incubation concentration of 0.1 mM Ac-ASA .
18 The programme will be shown as part of the Western Approach documentary series on BBC2 at 7.30pm one Thursday in October and will go out to the Somerset and Dorset West region .
19 If it does , GPA 's unsecured debt is likely to be jostling all claims on Polly Peck International at roughly one half of one percentage point .
20 A female caged with an impotent male produced clutches at roughly one month intervals .
21 Width is n't too important , as long as you 've got a bit of elbow room : we made ours so that it finished at around one metre wide .
22 The proportion when the specimen is alive is constant at around one part in 10 12 .
23 At around one year , she 'll hold out her foot or raise her arms when you ask .
24 The knock on the door was at precisely one minute after midnight .
25 Argentinian anti-aircraft fire had brought down at least one Harrier pilot before the gun barrels were depressed and turned against the Paras .
26 Compost-making on a farm scale is yet uncommon in Britain ( it has been practised for over 4,000 years in China ) as it involves a very careful balance and mixing of ingredients , control of ventilation and moisture , and the extra work of at least one turning .
27 ‘ Literacy in one or more languages , eventually to include literacy in at least one Sierra Leone language and in the official language , English ;
28 From 48″ × 20″ × 15″ up at least one manufacturer specifies 10mm glass .
29 On at least one trip to the town visitors must be sure to take the cable-car up to Saint Ubaldo 's basilica where the saint 's remains are housed and from where the views of Gubbio are simply spectacular .
30 Most nights he made at least one trip out here , and each time he learned nothing .
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