Sentence examples for at a time left from inspiring English sources

His ability to exist on three hours' sleep for weeks at a time left friends and colleagues exhausted.

Pedal your bicycle a little and pull your brakes gently, one at a time (left then right) to know which one's the front brakes.

Work with one piece at a time, leaving the rest wrapped and in the fridge.

Plates are delivered one or two at a time, leaving some diners waiting.

After the check is paid, and one diner at a time leaves the table to use the restroom.

And he would disappear for days at a time, leaving his mother and me tearing our hair out.

One envoy noted that the plan forces inspectors to ask questions on only one issue at a time, leaving the most delicate topics until the end.

Mom was away for days at a time, leaving the kids to forage in the fields for sassafras buds and May apples by day and to go to bed when they pleased at night.

Warm a thin layer of oil in a non-stick frying pan, then place the patties down in the pan, a few at a time, leaving room to flip them over.

Despite the best efforts of charity watchdogs, their evaluations cover only a few hundred organizations at a time, leaving donors with little more than their gut and personal experience to distinguish between stewards and shady operators.

These three novels were never really imagined as a trilogy, but only "developed" to that status one book at a time, leaving me pleasantly surprised, and pleasantly bemused, by the result.