Example sentences of "[noun] at any [num] time " in BNC.

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1 On this point , a central problem with criminal statistics is that they only cover what is officially defined as crime at any one time .
2 Fifth , release for in-service training should be increased to 5 per cent of the further education teaching force at any one time as soon as resources are available .
3 In order that the system can meet the required standard of availability , and to simplify control of the archive , lexicographers are only presented with a sub-set of dictionary entries at any one time .
4 Under the RSC ( Amendment No 4 ) Order 1989 which amends Ord 6 , r8 , writs issued on or after 4 June 1990 may only be renewed by the court for a maximum of four months at any one time , unless the court is satisfied that it may not be possible , despite all reasonable efforts , to serve the writ within four months , in which case renewal of up to 12 months may be ordered .
5 The aim is to ensure not only that all important titles are held in stock , but also that as far as possible there is on the shelves at any one time a reasonable coverage of material in all subject fields .
6 Just 46 guests can experience the Princess at any one time , staying in luxurious staterooms .
7 If necessary adjust the pitch attitude a maximum of a quarter to a half bar at any one time .
8 But there will always be pockets at any one time where we ca n't give as an equally good service as we would like .
9 However , the tests would be more wide-ranging and control of the number of different aspects under test at any one time would be useful .
10 Since then , orders have flooded in and Jackie , of Newcastle , works on as many as 25 cakes at any one time .
11 We have some erm members of staff who are permanently working in different countries at any one time — probably five/six people from the Institute .
12 It should be possible for the local government commission to consider four or five different areas throughout England at any one time .
13 Sliding doors are popular choice as they do not take up any space in the room , although , on the other hand , you can only see the contents of half the wardrobe at any one time .
14 Use boards to work from to avoid disturbing newly laid blocks and only lay sufficient sand to deal with a comfortable number of blocks at any one time .
15 Studies by Atkinson and Kincaid in Britain , Harrington in the USA , and official government studies in both countries , reveal a persistent and significant section of the population living in poverty-stricken circumstances at any one time , to say nothing of the many others , who , at certain crucial periods of their life ( e.g. the old , families with young children ) , may temporarily lapse into poverty .
16 To find out I looked closely at all the reptile faunas known from the Triassic ; that is , I looked at each separate assemblage of reptiles that was known to live in any one place at any one time .
17 But the system of laws in place at any one time in a democracy worthy of the name has a permanence about it ; partly due to the formality and bureaucracy of the institutions which sustain it , but , more importantly , because of the hydra-headed nature of the social processes which it facilitates .
18 There are between 800 to 1,000 crossbreds at any one time in his intensive beef unit .
19 There is a ready market in financial instruments like Treasury bills because there are always plenty of willing sellers and buyers at any one time .
20 Birchbank caters for a maximum of ten guests at any one time , so individual attention is assured and just about every outdoor activity is provided , including cross-country skiing .
21 Home Office figures show that a million people are convicted of criminal offences each year and that 45,000 are paying the penalty in jail at any one time .
22 The lines are so close together that two of them can be seen crossing the planet Jupiter at any one time .
23 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 .
24 In formal debates only one amendment may be before the meeting at any one time , but it is common practice in committees to allow several amendments to be moved , seconded and accepted .
25 Such relations both define the form of inequality between places at any one time and also help set the scene for the next form of uneven development .
26 For a breakdown of the characteristics of the prison population at any one time , one of the few available sources is the statistics collected for the All-India Committee on Jail Reforms 1980–3 .
27 They went in great numbers ; in a period of sixty years in the last century , some 80,000 French Basques are estimated to have gone from the region , out of a total population at any one time of 112,000 .
28 The census returns show that the majority of Camberwell 's population at any one time had been born in London — 65 per cent in 1861 ; 76 per cent in 1911 — but many families had moved frequently from district to district and from street to street .
29 You will have been told that 93% — or whatever — of British women are on a diet at any one time , but that , as a nation , we are still getting fatter .
30 Clare Gittings suggests that one of the many reasons why embalming decreased during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was distaste on the part of the nobility — not so much with the practice itself as with the thought of having so many surgeons , apothecaries and wax-chandlers poring over a body at any one time .
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