Example sentences of "at any one time " in BNC.

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1 These factors help explain some of the reasons why the total number of ACET clients covered at any one time by our on call service in London has more than doubled from 70 in April 1990 to over 150 by March 1991 ; and why the nature of the services required has become so much more sophisticated .
2 These factors help to explain why the total number of clients covered at any one time by our London 24 hour on-call service more than doubled from 70 in April 1990 to 150 by March 1991 ; and why the provision of service has had to become so much more sophisticated .
3 As a result there is now a large group who are at a similar stage of HIV infection at any one time .
4 The main economic differences reflect the different structures of the state and the different state policies adopted by the British and Irish governments at any one time , though with a significantly higher state sector of employment in Ulster .
5 Leonard 's mind was such that he always had several ironies in his fire at any one time , even when he was seeking to demythologise some of them !
6 ‘ We stock six different beers at any one time from a list that includes Arkells , Adnams , Marston 's , Greene King , Youngs and Bass . ’
7 Cricket had the fourth largest aggregate audience on television in 1988 , according to the figures of AGB Sports Watch/ BARB , but over so many hours that its audience at any one time is insignificant .
8 There are twenty seven people on the stage at any one time .
9 At any one time five were working in the Criminal Division and in the Queen 's Bench Divisional Court .
10 So far we have looked at the consensual influence of television : at influences that varied from time to time but affected all or most citizens at any one time .
11 At any one time there were wide differences of opinion about party chances however .
12 At any one time , it was relatively easy to predict which electors would give parties and leaders high ratings .
13 Rainoldes apart , the transgressions associated with the boy players , be they actual or imagined , rendered the theatrical self-consciousness surrounding transvestism complex and shifting ; it provoked questions teasingly unanswerable : for example — and this is a question which remains intriguing for us today — which , or how many , of the several gender identities embodied in any one figure are in play at any one time ?
14 A sufficient proportion of the strip was in fallow at any one time to ensure that yields were , in theory , maintained over a fifteen or twenty year period .
15 In effect governments take on a commitment to support a part of the costs of several hundred projects at any one time , such ‘ counterpart funding ’ in countries like Kenya or Tanzania frequently amounts to a nominal commitment of about $200 million per year .
16 All in all a total of seventeen strands of training can progress at any one time , ranging from Adult platoons to Junior Leaders and Territorial Army recruits .
17 There are up to 250,000 sufferers in Britain today — about 20,000 of them in hospital at any one time .
18 As a result , it 's been estimated that not many more than one per cent can be cultured at any one time .
19 Only 10ha ( 24.7 acres ) of cereal straw or stubble , or 20ha ( 49.4 acres ) of other crop residues may be burnt at any one time .
20 Despite the fact that it can seem at times as if half the figures on the red benches are comatose — a chastened Lady ( Barbara ) Wootton concluded after eight years in the place that at any one time about ten per cent of the participants in a debate were fast asleep — the quality of argument can be incomparably higher than in the House of Commons , and the pool of expertise available from the ennobled professors , judges , generals and bureaucrats makes for more informed contributions .
21 Most traders offered extensive lines of credit , without interest , to their friends and kinsmen — a wealthy Kufran , for example , reckoned that he had about 30,000 dinars on loan to his friends at any one time — apart from commercial credit .
22 At any one time , Peterborough 's HAH has about 24 child or adult patients .
23 Indeed , despite the fall in numbers of children living in residential care at any one time , some 25 per cent since 1971 in the United Kingdom but far higher for some types of care than others , recent research shows that residential care is still experienced by many troubled adolescents .
24 Charlemagne fought and worked on several fronts at any one time ; in the military , political and cultural senses .
25 We now need to make it easier for those council tenants living in high-cost areas or on low incomes to move gradually into home ownership , without taking on too heavy a financial burden at any one time .
26 The study of the mechanisms responsible for group structure at any one time thus requires a through-time or ‘ diachronic ’ perspective if the functional role of these mechanisms in relation to the overall reproductive strategies of individuals is to be perceived .
27 Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times .
28 Since many kinds of trilobites co-existed at any one time they were probably occupying different ecological niches , behaving in different ways , corresponding with the wide variation in shape that they show .
29 But most of that material at any one time is dead .
30 At any one time , then , the total quantity of plants in the sea may seem relatively small .
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