Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franklin always resented the Department being saddled with so much debt at a time of falling revenue , but the Coronations dominated most of his time as Manager . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Cooper outlined the work of the twenty-two branches in East Suffolk and six in West Suffolk , all but three of which ( Ipswich , Southwold and Sudbury ) ran only one course at a time . |
| 4 | Government approvals now mainly apply to programmes rather than individual projects and relate to only one year at a time . |
| 5 | I understand that the electronic intarsia carriage selects the needles for only one colour at a time to the intarsia position , making it easy for you to lay in the appropriate colour . |
| 6 | Perhaps lawyers and judges accept that proposition as true by convention , which means true just because everyone else accepts it , the way chess players all accept that a king can move only one square at a time . |
| 7 | Nearly all present-day computers are sequential ( serial ) machines which perform only one operation at a time . |
| 8 | There are two problems with the type of stack found in the KDF9 computer : ( a ) it is of fixed size , so that the programmer or compiler has to take care to keep within its bounds ; and ( b ) in a multiprogramming environment the stack has to be emptied and refilled at each process switch ; the latter could be done on the KDF9 only one element at a time ( although suitable stack dump and restore instructions could be envisaged ) , and the problem was solved on that computer by providing multiple nesting stores . |
| 9 | In each of these three cases only one animal at a time was sacred , chosen for its special markings , and it could act as an oracle for the god . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And then only one person at a time . ’ |
| 12 | Imagine the concentration needed if you could fully understand only one person at a time , the person you could see . |
| 13 | Only one person at a time may speak , and he must confine this remarks to the motion before the meeting . |
| 14 | There 's only one person at a time listening in a certain way , in a purest existential way . ’ |
| 15 | Microcomputers are often described as personal computers In fact it can be quite helpful to think of them in this way when considering the differences between them and mainframe or minicomputers Usually microcomputers are used by only one person at a time ; for example , a personnel manager might have one on his desk top which he uses to examine trends in recruitment . |
| 16 | Since only one bit at a time can be sent , we could not send the 8-bit binary number : all at once until we had eight separate telephone lines and this would be obviously impractical . |
| 17 | As you read this , only one word at a time is sharply in focus . |
| 18 | This study is concerned with the initial stages of children 's language acquisition , when they are speaking by using only one word at a time . |
| 19 | Most speakers would agree , I think , that Mary wore a red dress and Mary wore a blue dress were contraries ( assuming , of course , that they refer to the same occasion , and that Mary , as would be normal , wore only one dress at a time ) ; the colour terms refer to the predominant colour of the dress , and there can be only one predominant colour . |
| 20 | ‘ He had a brain capable of only one idea at a time . |
| 21 | The many-to-many mapping of the process can not occur , because the human thought process is sequential in nature ( one thought at a time ) , and only one idea at a time can be transferred . |
| 22 | Thus a seminar , in which a number of speakers exchange ideas and information , is still a one-to-many mapping , because only one idea at a time is capable of being absorbed by each individual recipient . |
| 23 | Only one character at a time may wield these magic items . |
| 24 | Building a complex structure by evolution is like trying to build a mortarless arch if you are allowed to touch only one stone at a time . |
| 25 | It supports only one user at a time . |
| 26 | These assumptions are that there is majority voting , members vote sincerely , there is a single decision , individuals differ in only one characteristic at a time , and preferences are single-peaked ( see Atkinson and Stiglitz , 1980 ; Blair and Crawford , 1984 ) . |
| 27 | The railway bridge can take only one vehicle at a time and obscures visibility . |
| 28 | The road was wide enough for only one vehicle at a time , and she hoped she would n't meet another car . |
| 29 | The idea of ‘ saturation ’ was implicit also in the fact that although multiple set households increased steadily through the 1980s ( Table 6.11 ) , only one set at a time was generally switched on . |
| 30 | At present we assume that the computer does only one thing at a time . |