Example sentences of "that at [det] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At least under that system hundreds of young actors and actresses found regular employment under contract which meant they were paid whether they worked or not , whereas in 1990 the figures from the guild showed that at any one time as many as eighty-five per cent of its Los Angeles membership were not working . |
| 3 | — that at any one time ail action sample clients who lived alone , had an OBS score of eight or more , and had no closely involved informal carer would have been in an institution without the project . |
| 4 | Unemployment remained high , and it was estimated that at any one time at least a million men were without work . |
| 5 | We also know that at any one time there are approximately one million lone-parent households caring for 1 . |
| 6 | Americas Watch estimated in 1986 that at any one time , 300 or more prisoners were held in DGSE facilities . |
| 7 | The number of individual insects in the world seems beyond any computation , but someone has made the attempt and concluded that at any one time , there must be something of the order of one thousand million thousand million . |
| 8 | My own estimate , based on various studies of my own and of others , is that at any one time between 20 per cent and 30 per cent of adults in this country have personal , significant sexual problems of some kind or another , major or minor . |
| 9 | The principal weakness of these provisions is that companies ( especially , but not exclusively , private ones ) are deplorably dilatory in delivering returns to the Registrar so that at any one time a majority of companies are in arrear to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 10 | The maximum life of a traded option is 9 months and the expiry dates are arranged in a quarterly cycle so that at any one time there will be contracts on the underlying share with 3 different expiry dates . |
| 11 | The idea is that at any one time 60-90pc will be in cash and the equity ‘ risk ’ will be controlled by using the rest on futures and options . |