"So sweet and innocent," said Ms. Johnson, referring at once to the game and Miss Alva, who was national women's champion for two years.
I'm interested in the way a sentence like "[T]he author… encounters a problem with his tense" can refer at once to an event internal to the fiction ("the author" is trying to tell a bedtime story to his nephews) and the composition of the fiction (my trying to figure out how to manage a change in tense as I wrote "The Golden Vanity").
The number of patients that had been referred at least once over the period January 2008 until 20th Oct 2008 was 25,077.
Percentage of patients who were referred at least once to a specific specialist during the twelve-month period before baseline and during the 1 1/2 years prospective follow-up.
The second noted challenge was in choosing whether or not to refer at all, once a mental health disorder has been detected.
"All the problems were there," he once explained, referring at least to the atomic bomb, and probably to McCarthy, "but it was somehow glossed over.
(She'll be releasing the new album through her own imprint, MonarC. The name refers to three things at once: her own initials, her status as pop royalty and her infatuation with butterflies).
Fantasy film adaptations aside, the fascinating thing about the Whitstable Continental hotel brouhaha is that it was not referred to once (at least, not in the hearing of any of my network of poorly paid informers) by anyone on the podium over the next couple of days.
Some 'pluralists', as we may call those who analyze mass expressions in terms of plural expressions, hold that mass terms are used, generally, to refer to many things at once (Nicolas 2002).
There are many similarities between the semantics of mass nouns and plurals, cf. sections 5, 6, and 8. Also, at a very intuitive level, if there are eight pieces of silverware on the table, then the speaker seems to refer to eight things at once when he says: The silverware that is on the table comes from Italy.
