Example sentences of "people at the same time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lyricist Tim Rice , one of the forces behind worldwide musical smashes Chess , Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita , summed up : ‘ You ca n't fool hundreds of thousands , or millions of people at the same time with absolute garbage for record after record . |
| 2 | Spoken messages can be stored in electronic mailboxes and retrieved by telephone , and by several people at the same time — because the messages are not recorded as on a tape recorder , but on electronic pulses in the computer 's memory . |
| 3 | Most of the surveys showing that unemployed people are less healthy than the employed are cross-sectional in nature ( comparing different people at the same time , rather than following the changes in people 's lives over a period of time ) . |
| 4 | Many are noisy , dirty , and uninformed , as are many adults , but they may be bright and attractive people at the same time . |
| 5 | When there is a face-to-face conversation and a third person joins in , the speechreader , who can not see two people at the same time , tends to become isolated while they chat together . |
| 6 | When the assistant is serving you , he may also be serving two or three other people at the same time and holding a conversation with yet another . |
| 7 | The arrival of large groups of people at the same time will always mean pressure on the reception staff , hall porters and other departments . |
| 8 | In 1981 the executive committee directed that the BDN , which had hitherto performed the dual role of addressing the hearing public on behalf of deaf people at the same time as serving deaf readers , should in future primarily be a paper for BDA members and the deaf community as a whole . |
| 9 | They were in the car when Emma said quietly , ‘ You can love two people at the same time , ca n't you , Mammy ? ’ |
| 10 | Peggy paused before answering , ‘ Yes ; yes , you can love two people at the same time . ’ |
| 11 | So yes , her daughter could love two people at the same time . |
| 12 | It 's useful when you 've got to contact lots of staff or get information to many people at the same time and allows you to put detailed information down . |