Example sentences of "at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases a group would divide into sub-groups and work on more than three at a time . |
| 2 | This passage was written , incidentally , at a time when he was not well informed about Klee 's own ideas . |
| 3 | The quotation is from an article of 1954 , at a time when Picasso 's reputation was very high . |
| 4 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |
| 5 | His story begins at a time when , as at other times in this century , the patriciate , and the merely rich , had slipped down into marked collusion with the smart , with upstarts and bohemians . |
| 6 | This kind of move came at a time when Tetley 's , along with other arms of Allied Breweries , espoused and encouraged a culture of well-informed and caring in-house designers . |
| 7 | He also keeps the same brigade for years at a time because staff turnover in contract catering is not as rapid as in hotels and restaurants . |
| 8 | They were typical of part of what it was like to be homeless — having nowhere to go ; having to avoid all representatives of authority ; feeling tired and generally run-down ; and needing to have my wits at their sharpest at a time when they had become critically undernourished . |
| 9 | It sports small yellow flowers en masse , sometimes showing as many as 30 at a time . |
| 10 | This should be done annually to ensure dense sides , removing up to half the season 's new growth at a time . |
| 11 | It simply means thinking a little about your diet and daily routine , and improving it a bit at a time . |
| 12 | If you can exercise just two or three times a week , for about half an hour at a time , you will keep your body in shape . |
| 13 | This tendency to dichotomize policemen against the social reformer even led the ex-police liberal John Alderson uncharacteristically to describe the historian E. P. Thompson as being ‘ an unfair critic of the police ’ ( Public Office , Granada TV , 20 June 1980 ) ; and this at a time when Thompson ( 1980 ) had just pointed out that most policemen are ‘ ordinary blokes , and no society could do without them in dealing with many of its sordid realities ’ . |
| 14 | He loped upstairs two steps at a time . |
| 15 | Leonard could be fastidious to the nth degree in completing his own work — he has always said that he works ‘ one word at a time , ’ and can spend months , even years , in adding finesse to it ; he is nevertheless dismissive of anything approaching scholarly exactitude , still more so pedantry . |
| 16 | If Let Us Compare Mytholoqies marks the awakening of his poetic consciousness when the city of Montreal ( and all that was in it , not excluding its female charms ) ‘ began to jump at me , ’ The Spice-Box Of Earth marks the heightening of his Jewish consciousness which he encountered in young adulthood , as a free agent abroad in the world , having to establish his own identity at a time when his own Tradition , and his position in it , began likewise to jump at him . |
| 17 | One at a time . ’ |
| 18 | The English boy used to work in the hospital for a day at a time , and then be off for several days . |
| 19 | However , the protein must be eaten in amounts not exceeding 20–25g ( 0.7–0.88oz ) at a time because the body is unable to digest more than this and any extra will just pass through the body . |
| 20 | He advocates marking the stretchers off one at a time instead of squaring cross all four at once . |
| 21 | He cuts the tenon shoulders one at a time , and then lines them up to make a final pass if necessary . |
| 22 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 23 | Separate the laminates ( I glued six legs at a time ) . |
| 24 | A The first kind developed out of the Romantic movement which emerged at a time when artists of all kinds rebelled against being servants in wealthy households , obeying their patrons ' orders and being regulated by religious , political and other advisers . |
| 25 | The Anchor brewery had been built in 1757 by a couple of brewers from Bethnal Green called Wastfield and Moss , at a time when the district was so quiet and un-built-up you could still see ships passing on the Thames from the brewery windows . |
| 26 | Such information implies a distance of 16 thousand million light years and that the galaxy is seen at a time 83% of the way back to the Big Bang . |
| 27 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 28 | In practice one can only talk about one thing at a time , and in this Chapter I shall risk a distorting simplicity by looking at questions of theory largely in isolation from institutional matrices and situations , and concentrating on British activities to the exclusion of the American ones that accompanied or preceded them . |
| 29 | His major work was done in Russia in the 1930s and 1940s , he suffered Stalinist repression , was partly rehabilitated , and died in 1975 , at a time when very few people in the West had heard of him . |
| 30 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |