Sentence examples for young at a time from inspiring English sources

In animals such as the rabbit or pig, which bear many young at a time, gestation is shorter for larger litters than for smaller ones.

His ease with inhabiting and then discarding musical styles, from punk and country to dance, seems, more than anything, a consequence of his being young at a time when all genres are equally available and equally interesting.

In the gray kangaroos, which live in wooded country with a more predictable environment, this system does not exist; there is no diapause, and the pouch is occupied by one young at a time.

Bellocq was certainly short, 5 feet or 5-foot-2 in his 70's, no doubt a couple of inches taller when young, at a time when people were shorter anyway.

He has died young, at a time when he had at least an even chance of being the next Prime Minister, and when he looked like gaining office after hard years in opposition.

Put another way, gun control in America isn't happening unless a) Republicans learn to spawn thousands of young at a time, like fish, and b) all their Fishpublican-spawn babies are killed with guns.

Heather Sterner San Francisco, Feb. 3, 2010 To the Editor: David Brooks's column generalizes complex generational issues and ends up pitting the older against the younger at a time when we need to figure out ways to create "win-wins" for all generations.

"That's why this play is so powerful -- it is young people speaking to young people, at a time in their development when they're looking to separate from adults and parents".

Here one remembers Edward Wagenknecht's story of Twain's reply to the young Winston Churchill: at a time when the young politician defended his country's actions in The Boer War, saying "My country, right or wrong".

The female chimpanzee bears a single young at any time of year after a gestation period of about eight months.

"Majority," Seren Yuce's film about a sad young slacker in Istanbul, is an unsparingly insightful anatomy of how a male-dominated society reproduces itself, one young man at a time.