Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun sg] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah yeah we were just , we 're just sort of moving a car length at a time were n't we ? |
| 2 | They are suing the firm for allegedly flying them into a war zone at a time when both British and American governments were aware an invasion was taking place . |
| 3 | Takeover offers are also regulated and affected by the SARs ; the Fair Trading Act 1973 ( references to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ) ; European Council Regulation ( EEC ) 4064/89 ( merger control ) ; the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 ( which prohibits a person from dealing in securities which are listed or subject to a marketing arrangement at a time when he is in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information ) ; liability for negligent misstatement and for misrepresentation ( both at common law and under the Misrepresentation Act 1967 ) ; and Statements of Standard Accounting Practice 22 and 23 ( accounting for goodwill and for acquisitions and mergers ) . |
| 4 | The reluctance of the judge at first instance to adopt a policy approach at a time when the obvious intention of the Act , not to mention the thrust of securities regulation in general , was to clamp down on market abuse , can only be described as an anomalous , not to mention unwelcome , development . |
| 5 | ‘ Additionally could we ask whether it would be possible for you to attend a recording studio at a time convenient to yourself and allow us to record you reciting the refrain ‘ I 'm Roy , I 'm Roy — Roy Of The Reds Am I ! ’ |
| 6 | I hobbled over to collect the missing shoe and the dress detached itself a press stud at a time , disengaging itself completely as I bent — bottom to camera — to retrieve the shoe . |
| 7 | Favourites were ‘ confetti strikes ’ , where different workers struck for a set period at a time determined by the last digit or colour of their registration cards . |
| 8 | Peter Lorre had left the home of his Jewish family in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to become a travelling player at a time when in a different part of the Empire another Jewish family were training their son to join them as travelling players . |
| 9 | Now they were seeping into the consciousness of people within a milieu which , rejecting straight left politics , was searching for a route out of a hippy enclave at a time when the political temperature was rising . |