Example sentences of "[be] at [det] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children loved the hectic activity of the day , and it was difficult to keep track of where the boys were at any one time . |
| 2 | The rules of the infirmary permitted the honorary medical staff ( and later the house-surgeon ) to take on such pupils , but how many there were at any one time and whether they were resident or not was seldom recorded . |
| 3 | It is impossible to say , even for the relatively well-documented western part of the Carolingian Empire , how many counts there were at any one time , let alone identify the personnel . |
| 4 | Although , as we shall see , a large proportion of divorced people remarry , there are at any one time a good number of single-person households or single-parent households created by divorce . |
| 5 | The formula for both these jocular comments is similar : in the midst of a conversation which has continued for at least two turns in London English , a speaker introduces a turn which ends in Creole ( typically such turns are at most one sentence long , and wholly in Creole ) . |
| 6 | ‘ They just want to tell us which parts of their bodies are out of the Levi 's at any one time . ’ |
| 7 | The general order of a library classification scheme was often claimed ( notably by Henry Evelyn Bliss ) to be best based upon " an educational and scientific consensus of opinion " , but even if such a consensus is at any one time conceivable , in present circumstances it is increasingly unlikely to persist in any recognizable sense . |