Example sentences of "at one time or [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The first and most important consideration is that in the forty years since 9 August 1945 , despite the fact that all the nuclear powers have been involved in wars at one time or another , nuclear weapons have not once been used militarily . |
| 32 | Coping and support networks can be built up gradually as part of a group exercise and on your own and can provide a forum for discussion and shared experience as well as letting off the inevitable steam and frustration experienced at one time or another . |
| 33 | All of these species have been recorded eating mountain goats at one time or another , but whether they are regular or serious predators on the goat is another matter . |
| 34 | Since then , at one time or another , we have had 13 boys involved with the scheme . |
| 35 | I 've had my reservations about all three of these acts at one time or another , but , standing here , gripped and pulsing , in Chicago University 's Mandel Hall , my veins pumping nothing but Dr Pepper and fatigue , it become obvious that I WAS WRONG ALL THE WAY . |
| 36 | It featured more than five locos in steam at one time or another . |
| 37 | But precisely in that act of consignment you may have committed an unconscious iconoclasm — for each of the above-mentioned artists at one time or another personally designed his own exhibition announcement . |
| 38 | Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment . |
| 39 | At one time or another these projects were respectively code-named Alaska , California , Montana and Nevada . |
| 40 | There were many routes from Earth to the Reconciled Dominions , some safer than others , but all used at one time or another , and not always by magicians . |
| 41 | At one time or another these projects were respectively code named : Alaska , California , Montana and Nevada . |
| 42 | The main need , however , is to bring the two sides somehow together , since all of us at one time or another need help from both of them . |
| 43 | Most adults at one time or another suffer from bleeding gums . |
| 44 | The medical journals still present a variety of possible remedies , many of which sound most desperate and bizarre missionaries report from China that they have been cured by having needles stuck into their bellies and arms , yet this is not thought too strange to mention … and almost every variety of chemical substance has been proposed at one time or another , all of which is a sure sign that our profession remains baffled by this disease . " |
| 45 | It will do no harm to recall that is what democracy originally meant and was : state and society at one , the citizen body governing itself directly , through active participation in politics , a duty which fell upon every citizen at one time or another . |
| 46 | Very many men will admit , if they are honest with themselves , that at one time or another they have felt sexual attraction for a young girl — or boy . |
| 47 | If , however , you are using an agency capable of providing a reasonable service — even if it is not a ‘ full service agency ’ — you are likely to meet , at one time or another , an account group , consisting of at least five or six people , who will be doing between them all the tasks involved in creating and placing your advertising . |
| 48 | Subsequently , most Scottish rural areas , mid- and North Wales , the Pennines and parts of Devon and Cornwall have at one time or another been designated as Assisted Areas ( see figure 3.3a ) . |
| 49 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |
| 50 | That may cover almost anything , indeed F W Maitland said that ‘ there is hardly any department of law which does not , at one time or another , become of constitutional importance . ’ |
| 51 | There is hardly a treasure hunter anywhere in the world who has not heard of Charles Garrett , read at least one of his numerous books on the subject , or at one time or another used one of his metal detectors . |
| 52 | Here Revelstoke was in his element ; acute intelligence and charm , capacity for meticulous work , presence and eloquence , fluency in French and Spanish , and , above all , financial acumen made him a match for the wiliest of South American presidents , North American railway barons , European finance ministers , and the members of the British cabinet with all of whom he had to deal at one time or another . |
| 53 | De Smith has adumbrated four different tests which the courts have at one time or another used . |
| 54 | On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ . |
| 55 | The rest were available at one time or another . |
| 56 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 57 | Most of the major software houses have offered competitive upgrades at one time or another , and see it as a good way to gain a bigger market share . |
| 58 | She was rich , beautiful , clever and amusing , and her wit became renowned ; she was featured in the picture papers , in the scandal sheets , and everyone of consequence was reported at one time or another to be going to marry her . |
| 59 | There 's nothing new that women have n't tried on me at one time or another . |
| 60 | LOOK , this is a problem which afflicts most men at one time or another . |