Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their interest became centred around sympathetic affiliation to the Comintern and the creation of a United Communist Party , the two main objects of Communist tactics at the time . |
| 2 | Part of the explanation is that artificial selection changes only a few characteristics at a time , whereas in nature many changes occur simultaneously . |
| 3 | From the Cape comes wool , skins , fruit etc. etc. , while from France we often get 3,000 sacks of chestnuts at a time . |
| 4 | And I can not believe that the two did not exchange at length here , passing the very threshold of such a dominant historic occasion , an event which still burnt into the consciousness of all Scots at the time . |
| 5 | Separate the laminates ( I glued six legs at a time ) . |
| 6 | Anna stayed in the paddock , and her only contact with people was when she was chased into a yard and chute for worming and branding , or else had two legs at a time strapped up to facilitate an occasional trimming of her hooves . |
| 7 | When it was heard that he had been shot in the legs at the time of his arrest , the reporters assured their readers that the general view of the British people was , ‘ A pity they did n't aim a bit higher . ’ |
| 8 | My father still had full use of both his legs at the time , and had to use them to run up and down from kitchen or lounge to the bedroom and back when Agnes rang the little bells sewn into the bell-bottoms of her jeans , which lay draped over a chair by the side of the bed . |
| 9 | Fold back the ear flap , and briskly pull out one or two hairs at a time , in the direction of growth . |
| 10 | It may be poetic irony , but I was attending a convention in Hong Kong and working resolutely for the cigarette manufacturers at the time of my infarct . |
| 11 | He loped upstairs two steps at a time . |
| 12 | Yelling the news to Douglas , who was swording with Sir Walter Comyn , Ramsay dashed through the struggling mass of men back for the stairway , Down he raced , two steps at a time , and out again into the night . |
| 13 | I felt my way along , a few steps at a time , and every time I heard a voice or a footstep I stopped dead , clinging to whatever bit of masonry was under my hand and almost cowering with fright . |
| 14 | I ducked so fast I was n't sure whether he 'd seen me or not , but it gave me a prickly feeling just to imagine it , so I scuttled for the door and legged it up the spiral stairway three steps at a time , just in case . |
| 15 | Sometimes we crunched across crystalline ice , or slid tiny steps at a time over glass ice , so we created shiny black footprints in the dusting of snow . |
| 16 | Then someone she did like , Mr. Middlemass , the Document Examiner , with his jacket slung over his shoulders , leaping up the stairs three steps at a time and calling out a greeting to the desk . |
| 17 | The alienation of king and archbishop gave added significance to long-standing grievances at a time when by protecting Eardwulf 's enemies the archbishop was allying himself against the king . |
| 18 | Reports from human rights organizations at the time indicate systematic abuse of prisoners , especially of political prisoners . |
| 19 | Another aspect of the disregard for the feelings of the unemployed was the reduction in the number of mainstream staff in DSS offices at a time when the number of claimants was rising . |
| 20 | ‘ It was a hysterical scene — unless you happened to be in the housing offices at the time . ’ |
| 21 | With these restrictions , anaphor resolution will consist of an alternation in which the focus process suggests one or more candidates at a time and the reasoner evaluates them , deciding whether they are plausible and , if there is more than one , which is the best . |
| 22 | Everything was done by hand , but the famers could still shear up to three thousand animals at a time , washing all the fleeces in the nearby Sherbourne Brook . |
| 23 | TOP LEFT : The kennels at the RUC Dog Section behind Stormont Castle can cater for up to 27 animals at a time . |
| 24 | So do they go up did they all go along two squares at a time ? |
| 25 | Do these all go up two squares at a time ? |
| 26 | Right you started so you 're going up in hundreds , it 's two squares at a time , but only one hundred for each two squares . |
| 27 | You 're going up two squares at a time and you 're going one two three and it 's usually when you get to around where I tend to do it is erm sort of eight and ten . |
| 28 | He turns to the others and gives the good news : ‘ We going to need two guards at a time , starting now . |
| 29 | Cash 's considered the houses to be ideal homes at a time when textile workers were suffering hardships everywhere , and machine-breaking had been widespread in the Midlands and the North . |
| 30 | Among the local cases , adult women are the majority and those living in their homes at the time of the attack particularly feature . |