Example sentences of "were at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1922 the first three types had either disappeared completely ( the gentry ) or were at a very low ebb . |
| 2 | That has been much nicer than paying the 5% or so charged on bank loans even when interest rates in Japan were at a record low . |
| 3 | Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling . |
| 4 | People who had had experience of the National Assembly , where much the same procedures were followed , or who had picked up the style from televised broadcasts of it , were at a decided advantage . |
| 5 | Formal guidelines covering team objectives and operational policies were at a minimum in 1982 . |
| 6 | ‘ We are informed that you were at a lecture , on the thirteenth of last month . ’ |
| 7 | Liquid products for manual use : This is calculated by standardising arithmetically the price to achieve a true cost which represents the price the product would be if it were at a standard concentration of 30 per cent . |
| 8 | Younger , unattached people were at a premium in Southland . |
| 9 | Refining and Marketing had the best results since 1986 , and Exploration and Production 's results , excluding divestment profits , were at a similar level to 1990 . |
| 10 | For example , Matthew Paris , the medieval author of Historia Anglorum and who used the Nativity reckoning , wrote in consequence that certain eminent people were born , or died , on certain dates which were at a variance of a full year with the Historical . |
| 11 | Then , as now , people were at a loss to help the whales back to deep water , and even more so when it came to explaining the phenomenon . |
| 12 | The newspapers embarked on a steady reporting of rape and sexual assault cases , alleged to be on the increase , although official figures stated that sex offences were at a 10-year low . |
| 13 | At such close quarters , mistakes would have been more than evident but to the merit of all those involved , these were at a minimum and more than compensated for by sheer enthusiasm . |
| 14 | We were at a track well away from the hotel that the Italians had euphemistically dubbed the Athletes ' Village , and well away from the training track that was adjacent to the Olympic Stadium . |
| 15 | They belonged to a club I was n't qualified to join , they were at a party and I had n't been asked . ’ |
| 16 | He even came across a restricted locality where lived a colony of what must have been a new sub-species of the extremely rare , Small Mountain Ringlet butterfly , for they were at a much reduced altitude to their normal haunts , and altogether smaller than the regular species . |
| 17 | It is therefore not going to be possible to behave as though you were at a genuine social occasion and it will not be surprising if you feel awkward and nervous . |
| 18 | Earlier , 150,000 people were at a rock concert in Frankfurt . |
| 19 | All approaches to the Lakeside shopping centre at Thurrock , Essex , were at a standstill with six-mile jams on the M25 . |
| 20 | He accused his country 's batsmen of playing ‘ shots as if they were at a gunfight in the old Wild West ’ . |
| 21 | They were at a loss to know what to do with this sullen rebel who kept bursting out against them so unjustly . |
| 22 | He had taken up a woman 's role , and in the most feminine way taken up the nursing of Sien when his own mental and physical health were at a low ebb . |
| 23 | We bought Dowty knowing that we were at a low point in the aircraft build forecast , that was part of the reason for the timing . |
| 24 | By the fourteenth century relations between the Greek and Latin churches were at a nadir . |
| 25 | In India we missionaries were at a loose end . |
| 26 | Military and government people were quickly absorbed into the war effort , but the churches were at a loss what to do with us . |
| 27 | Assuming a constant rate of inflation of 5 per cent per annum , the real value of the relief would decline by a compounded figure of 39 per cent over 10 years and , if inflation were at a constant 10 per cent per annum , the corresponding decline would be 61 per cent . |
| 28 | My two younger sisters ( who scarcely figure in this story ) were at a local private school run by nuns . |
| 29 | We challenged and supported each other through the stresses of daily living , where women , who were at a particularly vulnerable point in their lives , had to make hard choices about their future and gain the strength to struggle through and survive . |
| 30 | Assistant county planning officer Alfreda Thistlethwaite said negotiations between the National Trust and Government departments over buying the land were at a crucial stage . |