Example sentences of "idea at a " in BNC.

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1 If the Russians do arrive on this scale it will be the largest single wave of what Israelis call aliya ( literally ‘ ascent ’ ) since the immediate post independence years in the early 1950s , a heady return to the heart of the Zionist idea at a time when the country — still fighting the Palestinian uprising , on a permanent war footing and its economy slipping into recession — is far from ready .
2 Different people in the group will be given specific roles such as time keeper , secretary ; and there will be explicit rules of behaviour such as only speaking through the chair , considering one idea at a time , recapping frequently from the secretary 's minutes and so on .
3 The British Institute of Recorded Sound conceived the idea at a conference just after the war , and the record companies EMI and Decca backed the scheme with a few hundred pounds .
4 A good idea at a reasonable price .
5 ‘ He had a brain capable of only one idea at a time .
6 If the idea itself is more important to you than the glory reflecting from its success , then raise the idea at a meeting so that it becomes an idea generated by a team .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 I pick up on one idea at a time , and we try each of these as a group .
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