Example sentences of "at any one [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sail trim is n't simply a question of pulling everything in and forgetting about it as the sail works at its maximum at any one angle to the wind . |
| 2 | So we may come to the third proposition of this book : THE SEDIMENTARY PILE AT ANY ONE PLACE ON THE EARTH 'S SURFACE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A TINY AND FRAGMENTARY RECORD OF VAST PERIODS OF EARTH HISTORY . |
| 3 | This statement is not directed at any one set of philosophers . |
| 4 | They may construct artificial representations of a fixed reality at any one point of time as a means of handling the continuous flow of social change , but these are simply data for the social scientist and not to be taken at face value . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most interesting property of all , though , is that the range of sizes present at any one point in an air-fall pumice deposit is rather restricted , so that the fragments tend to be all more or less the same size , or to put it formally , the deposit is said to be well-sorted . |
| 6 | The consequence of all this for a study of comparative industrial relations is that international differences can not be understood solely in terms of cross-sectional analysis at any one point in time . |
| 7 | Thus , one large contract caterer in a northern city with a high unemployment rate , whose casuals consisted almost entirely of otherwise unemployed people , estimated that as many as four times the number of people passed through its list of those available for casual work in the course of a year than were on that list at any one point in time . |
| 8 | Jung suggested that there might be an acausal connecting principle linking everything in the universe at any one point in time : he called it synchronicity . |
| 9 | Narrow range of skills , and specified range of operations required by workforce at any one point in the line . |
| 10 | It may be questioned whether or not the user needs to retrieve all of the possible relevant documents for a specific query at any one point in time . |
| 11 | On a fine summer weekend only about 8–10% of berth-holders are out at any one point in time . |
| 12 | Teachers are not required to give a confirmed level for a pupil at any one moment during the key stage . |
| 13 | The numbers of tame elephants kept at any one time between the eleventh and seventeenth centuries certainly exceeded the entire wild population left in the world today ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At any one time over 15,00 needles are now being replaced with precision made modules in groups of 10 to significantly improve accuracy and the split second timing necessary to evenly cut the yarn . |
| 16 | But the League stopped the move because Portsmouth already have two players on loan , the maximum allowed at any one time under League rules . |
| 17 | Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times . |
| 18 | This means that it is possible to kill many more rabbits in one field at any one time with a rifle than can ever be accomplished with a shotgun . |
| 19 | Pollen grains from a sample are identified and counted under a microscope , and the resulting percentages of pollens from various plants , shrubs and trees are normally presented in diagrammatic form , which allows the mixture of vegetation at any one time to be understood and compared with that of other sites . |
| 20 | " Dealing wholesale " means the sale at any one time to any one person of quantities not less than ( a ) in the case of spirits , wine or made-wine , two gallons or one case ; or ( b ) in the case of beer , four and a half gallons or two cases : Alcoholic Duties Act 1979 , ss.65(8) and 4(1) . |
| 21 | Moving on into the sort of sensors and the electronics side , erm for survivability erm the defensive aid sub- system will be er very complex , very sophisticated but also integrated so that it has a complete system of protection for the aircraft , erm an and finally moving on on the sort of electronics side then clearly with different sensors such as the radar , the forward looking infra-red , infra-red search and track the er multiple information distribution system and also certain aspects of the er electronic warfare suite then by having sensor fusion which enables the best information at any one time to be correlated into the system as a whole then that will provide a very good capability and far in excess of anything that we have at the moment . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The new variegated urban space meant the experience at any one time of a greater number and a greater variety of impressions . |
| 24 | Thus with nonspecific pollinators , competition is avoided and there is no problem of the build-up of pollinators at any one time of year to satisfy any one plant species . |
| 25 | Unemployment remained high , and it was estimated that at any one time at least a million men were without work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At any one time about 40 per cent of the population were children who were living at home with their parents . |
| 28 | Indeed , a quota was said to be imposed on the number of warrants which the Home Office would permit the police at any one time in order to ensure that the need for existing warrants was carefully scrutinized . |
| 29 | After all , at any one time in man 's history , there are far more ‘ ordinary ’ people ( and I do not mean that in a derogatory sense ) than those who hit the headlines . |
| 30 | 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 . |