Example sentences of "at a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prospect Theatre Company at a very exciting time . |
| 2 | A woman who takes five or more alcoholic drinks a day two or three times a week while she is pregnant is at a very high risk of harming her baby . |
| 3 | By 1922 the first three types had either disappeared completely ( the gentry ) or were at a very low ebb . |
| 4 | Travel went at a very slow pace . |
| 5 | It 's edited by Outdoor Action 's editor Laura McCaffrey and we are offering it at a very special price . |
| 6 | These operations were largely financed by the building societies , at a very low rate of interest . |
| 7 | Reviewing McBride , Eliot quoted from that writer 's conclusion that , given proper education of mind and body , ‘ the next generation may start at a very slightly higher level of capacity than their fathers ’ . |
| 8 | Its members move in and out of employment , and in and out of Nairobi itself , at a very fast rate . |
| 9 | As the urban economy grows the official export of primary agricultural commodities will increase only at a very modest rate , if at all . |
| 10 | One feature of this cross-sectional arrangement which is immediately apparent is the large area of roof surface which it generates , the roof surface of the central nave normally being sloped at a very steep pitch . |
| 11 | John Simpson had also been appalled by the competition entries for Paternoster Square and , at a very late stage , had managed to get hold of a copy of the brief — — to provide office space and car parking — and had sat down with a number of colleagues to draw up a scheme of their own . |
| 12 | ‘ The mere fact that more than a thousand police officers know that their conduct is under investigation can , it seems to us , in no sense diminish the prejudice suffered by a particular officer against whom there was a prima facie case of the commission of a criminal offence at a very early stage of that investigation . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We 're at a very early stage in all this , Minister , but can you think of anyone who would have wanted to harm Miss Morgan ? ’ |
| 14 | In this particular case Abraham is at a very distinct disadvantage . |
| 15 | I was staying at a very nice hotel called The Swans Nest which allows dogs . |
| 16 | When you and your dog are forced to survive at a very basic level , you share the kind of experience that fastens and tightens a solid bond . |
| 17 | But his performance in the 1982–3 campaign was phenomenal , for not only was he producing winners in quantity and at a very high strike rate , he was also winning big races : before the Gold Cup , Bregawn had won the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Newbury , Silver Buck the Edward Hanmer Memorial Chase at Haydock Park , Captain John the SGB Handicap Chase at Ascot , Wayward Lad the King George VI Chase and Ashley House the Peter Marsh Handicap Chase at Haydock . |
| 18 | At a very early stage the apostle Paul was confronted by opposed parties , the one contending that the freedom of the Spirit so emancipated them from social convention that they could act as they pleased , especially in sexual indulgence , the other with more plausibility holding that the life of the Spirit required renunciation of marriage . |
| 19 | The insecurities remain because they were so entrenched at a very important developmental time when as children they were dependent and let down . |
| 20 | Foals at a very early age start to copy their mothers and to nibble grass . |
| 21 | Wanting to be beautiful , wanting people to find us attractive , is a desire which is planted in girls at a very early age . |
| 22 | He lived at a very difficult time ; they wanted him back at La Scala , but there was always the possibility that Toscanini would return . |
| 23 | Some of this history was at a very high level of genealogy : it told of the matrimonial history of Hasan bin Nib and his wives and their marriages ; or of the relations and deeds of his sons . |
| 24 | But as she was writing a personal biography , she inevitably concentrated on Mary at a very personal level , so that her book is rather familiar ground well trod by its author than a foray into new territory . |
| 25 | The regulator gene is always ‘ on ’ , and synthesizes repressor at a very low rate . |
| 26 | ‘ The prime advantage of an exit charge would have been to the investor because he would have got into our funds at a nil cost and out again at a very low cost if he held his investment for , say , three years . ’ |
| 27 | Many contemporary players came under the Squash Rackets Association 's coaching umbrella at a very early age and facilities are more abundant than for any other racket sport . |
| 28 | The informal petty bourgeoisie is a term that is rarely found in attempts to outline class structure in Latin America , but Portes ' usage refers to small-scale entrepreneurs , who have similar characteristics in the class analysis to the dominant class , but who operate at a very different level and have a somewhat precarious existence . |
| 29 | Leapor 's opinions on marriage are at a very great distance from those of more conventional women poets in her time . |
| 30 | special schools are also developing nursery facilities in order to work with children at a very young age . |