Example sentences of "them at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , unfortunately this positive role so often gets lost in the way we have described earlier , with people just not understanding what is going on around them at a time when it could provide them with so much support . |
| 2 | The result , in the aftermath of the Japanese coup , was that immediate help to the French , who were now fighting the Japanese in Vietnam , was denied to them at a time when the US 14th Airforce in southern China could be seen by the French in Laos and Vietnam as they flew on their predetermined attacks on the Japanese elsewhere in Southeast Asia . |
| 3 | Different theoretical traditions , it is sometimes claimed , belong to ‘ incommensurable paradigms ’ ( Kuhn , 1962 ) ; one can work within only one of them at a time . |
| 4 | I was n't allowed to go anywhere near them at a time when I most needed reassuring . |
| 5 | It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time . |
| 6 | Will my hon. Friend pass to the National Audit Office the thanks of Parliament for its series of reports and ask whether it would be possible for us to have them at a time when Parliament is likely to be sitting rather than at one minute to midnight for the benefit of the press ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You act on one of them at a time , and then decide which , if any , is going to be most productive . |
| 9 | I also wonder how the system copes with changes to people 's incomes , er many people particularly in recession we heard that unemployment in Cambridge is now approaching ten percent and if you 've been turned down by the council , your council housing on your means test are you really going to go back to them at a time when you may be under a lot of stress with unemployment to have your circumstances reinvestigated , I very much doubt whether people do go back . |