Example sentences of "at an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have conducted two studies on the outcome of Cognitive Therapy treatment for depression by a social worker , the first using referrals from general practitioners at an inner-city health centre , the second from the occupational health services of large local employers . |
| 2 | Sir Robert last night rejected calls for his resignation and explained that 50 of the recommendations made by Sir Anthony were already in hand or implemented at an estimated cost of £20 million . |
| 3 | Roedean is planning a hockey and cricket tour of South Africa next year at an estimated £1,200 a head . |
| 4 | DEVELOPMENT of huge gas reserves in the northern and central North Sea moved a stage further yesterday with an agreement by a British Gas-led group to exploit three discoveries with reserves of one trillion cubic feet at an estimated cost of about £800m . |
| 5 | The police worked over fourteen million hours ' overtime , at an estimated cost of £140 million ( Wallington , 1985 : 152 ) . |
| 6 | In the North York Moors bracken is spreading into moorland at an estimated rate of 49 hectares per year . |
| 7 | In 1894 , the Board agreed to erect an entirely new school for 400 boys at an estimated cost , ex-land , of £2,800 . |
| 8 | In 1896 , the minutes state ‘ that seven owners of property have applied for a supply of water from the Railway Company , which will necessitate the laying of 230 yards of 3 ’ cast iron main at an estimated cost of £55 , and there are several more houses along the proposed extension of the main which will probably soon want a supply' . |
| 9 | It was reported independently by four commercial airliners , who saw the mushroom erupt , expand to a diameter of 200 miles , well above 65,000 feet at an estimated 500 mph , thin out and disappear . |
| 10 | Each year in the UK , 14m working days are lost from documented alcohol-related illness , at an estimated cost of £800m . |
| 11 | On 6th January 1872 , a committee appointed by the local government board attended a meeting of the Guardians , and there was agreement to the joint enterprise ; a letter from Mr. J. T. Wing enclosing a rough plan for a smallpox hospital to accommodate 24 patients at an estimated cost of £300 was also considered . |
| 12 | Senile dementia and other forms of mental illness presented a problem and it was recommended that a new building accommodating six beds and one padded room should be provided at an estimated cost of £2,400 . |
| 13 | In April 1933 , a new casual block at an estimated cost of £4,000 ( which would include a wood-chopping shed in the labour yard ) was approved . |
| 14 | The building was to be finished by lst June 1803 and at an estimated cost of £5,800 . |
| 15 | PLANS to build the long-awaited Kesgrave bypass at an estimated cost of more than £9 million are about to take a major step forward with publication of a series of compulsory orders to obtain the necessary land . |
| 16 | On top of this recurrent expenditure , Gloucester was pressing for a major rebuilding programme , to include not only repairs to the castle and town walls , but the construction of 120 new houses at an estimated cost of £1,600 . |
| 17 | Various quotations were considered by the Goldsmiths on 1st July and the contract was awarded to the Warrington company of Hinde and Haddock , at an estimated cost of £3,526 . |
| 18 | Another photo showed that the aircraft had clipped off the tops of at least two tree before it impacted ( at an estimated 350 kts. ) the 50-deg. upsloping rock-encrusted mountainside . |
| 19 | The revenue derived from taxing unemployment benefit , and the relevant part of an unemployed claimant 's supplementary benefit stood at an estimated £600 million in 1985–6 . |
| 20 | Taylor 's Level was reckoned to require driving of 60 fathoms at an estimated £6 per fathom plus about 140 for the railway . |
| 21 | The Trident programme continues on time towards its in-service date at an estimated final cost of £10,518 million . |
| 22 | The new iron and steel complex in Misratah was opened on Sept. 9 , 1989 , at an estimated cost of dollars 6,000 million and after years of delays resulting from shrinking oil revenues in the mid-1980s . |
| 23 | The cost option favoured by Evans ( the " mid-range scenario " ) involved the stationing in Cambodia of 5,500 UN peacekeeping forces and 2,000 officials at an estimated cost of US$987 million over 12 months , increasing to a total of US$1,300 million over 18 months . |
| 24 | A highly controversial New Brazil ( Brasil Nuevo ) austerity plan , announced by Collor on March 15 , combined free-market reforms with strong government intervention in order drastically to reduce inflation ( running at an estimated monthly rate of 85 per cent ) and to eliminate a US$31,000 million federal budget deficit . |
| 25 | More than 800 employees stopped work for two hours on March 14 in protest at plans to appoint 44 staff members and outside consultants to senior executive positions and create 20 new senior posts over the next two years at an estimated cost of US$6,200,000 . |
| 26 | In measures seen as evidence of MPRP efforts to streamline government in response to opposition criticism , seven ministries and three state committees , at an estimated saving of 3,600 million tugrik ( US$1.00=3.3495 tugrik as at March 26 , 1990 ) , were disbanded on April 7 , some being reorganized [ see p. 37344 for previous full list of Council of Ministers ] . |
| 27 | Total government spending was put at an estimated SR753,000 million , of which SR498,000 million would be civil expenditure . |
| 28 | A further eight-day strike for wage increases by 13,000 Centromín miners , supported by colleagues at the Cerro de Pasco complex of zinc and copper mines , ended on March 22 at an estimated cost in lost production of $10,000,000 . |
| 29 | The New York Times of Aug. 14 reported that Iraq had transferred between US$3,000 million and $5,000 million in gold , foreign currency and goods from Kuwait and that this had significantly increased Iraq 's financial reserves which had stood at an estimated US$6,500 million before the invasion . |
| 30 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |