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[ adverb ] in single file

Examples

"the prisoners came out one by one"

Used in print

(Raymond J. Corsini et al., Roleplaying in Business...)

The antagonists came_in , one_at_a_time , and did not see or hear the other presentations .

At the end of work one day , the personnel man took the applicants one_at_a_time , asked them to sit behind the receptionist 's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes .

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