at a time

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Prepositional phrase

at a time

  1. In a single, continuous period of time.
    He manages to abstain from smoking for weeks at a time, but then gives in and starts again.
  2. Simultaneously at each occurrence (of some action).
    climb stairs two at a time
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59:
      The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

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