Example sentences of "at [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When they are teething , at between four and six months of age , puppies become especially destructive . |
| 32 | filled the park with a crowd estimated at between 250,000 and 500,000 . |
| 33 | Other food aid agencies put the total at risk from starvation in Africa as a whole at between 10,000,000 and 20,000,000 . |
| 34 | Reviewing women at between 22–28 years after the index pregnancy ( when they had had abnormal glucose tolerance , but reverted to normal tolerance afterwards ) , he found a 50% prevalence of diabetes and 25% of abnormal glucose tolerance , whereas the controls had rates of 7% and 3% . |
| 35 | The cave site is exposed in a limestone quarry on the southern flanks of the Mendip Hills in Somerset , England at between 213 and 244 m OD ( Fig. 1.1 ) . |
| 36 | While official figures put the death toll at between 1,500 and 2,000 since the start of the insurgency in 1984 [ see pp. 33037-38 ] , other sources estimated that the figure could be over 2,500 [ see also p. 36565 ] . |
| 37 | He puts it at between one and four per cent , which I think could be violated in the short term . |
| 38 | The yield was estimated at between one and two megatonnes , which made it China 's largest-ever nuclear explosion , exceeding by far the yields for tests carried out by other nuclear powers since the 1970s . |
| 39 | For example , although , initially , children separate actions on objects from interactions with people , at between 8 and 16 months of age infants become able to organise their activity to include both objects and people . |
| 40 | The difference in the context of carbon dioxide emissions from all sources in the economy is estimated at between 234 million tonnes if gas is the main fuel and 250 if it is coal . |
| 41 | The rate of growth for 1990 was forecast at between 4.8 per cent and 5.2 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 42 | Human rights church groups and surviving inmates accused police of carrying out deliberate and systematic executions , blaming them for most of the deaths ( which they put at between 200 and 400 , as against an official toll of 111 inmates killed and 35 inmates and 22 police officers wounded ) . |
| 43 | By midday , a crowd estimated at between 80,000 and 100,000 had gathered in the grounds of Eglinton Castle . |
| 44 | An older discovery that has become significant is the taxon ‘ Proconsul ( Xenopithecus ) hamiltoni ’ described for a maxilla fragment from Lothidok Hill in northern Kenya , because the Eragaleit beds from which this fossil came ( together with some additional undescribed specimens ) have recently been dated at between 24.3 and 27.5Myr . |
| 45 | ( This is not true in the pornographic industry : the legendary organ of John Holmes — aka ‘ Long Johnny Wadd ’ — estimated at between 11 and 15 inches long , earned him parts in over 2,000 blue movies during a 20-year career ) . |
| 46 | One priority identified by participants was to attempt a census of living species , of which only 1.4 million are known , out of a total estimated at between 5 million and 50 million . |
| 47 | Absenteeism at Rover is currently running at between 5 and 6% . |
| 48 | It was measured at between 6.5 and 7 on the Richter scale , but its destructive force was limited by its depth — 100-150 km beneath the earth 's surface [ for 1977 Romanian earthquake which killed 1,500 see p. 28298 ] . |
| 49 | Properties which are valued at under 40,000 will pay 67% of the average bill , and those valued at between 88,000 and 120,000 will pay 122% of the average bill , and so on . |
| 50 | Jamie Champkin , defending , said Manning was travelling at between 70 and 80mph on the A40 near Curbridge , Oxon , and only went faster when an unmarked police car began gaining on him . |
| 51 | It can also be used to fire a wide range of appliances — boilers , radiant and convector heaters — which burn at between 70 and 85% efficiency . |
| 52 | However some copies will soon be available on the black market at between 70 and 150 roubles . |
| 53 | It is floating , propelled by convection currents deep in the mantle , at between six and sixteen centimetres a year , towards the north-west . |
| 54 | The speed of one wolf was recorded at between 1 5 and 30 miles an hour for a distance of 12 miles , after which the animal had to slow down to a trot . |
| 55 | The number of demonstrators in Moscow was estimated variously at between 5,000 and 55,000 . |
| 56 | This delivers , through the unmodified hardware configuration , motion video at between 12.5 and 15 frames per second over about 25 per cent of the screen . |
| 57 | They estimate its thickness at between 100 and 400 m , and suggest that all the observations are consistent with its having a low rather than a high velocity . |
| 58 | The solid emptying plots started with a straight line section but often suffered an abrupt increase in slope at between 45 and 90 minutes . |
| 59 | The four ‘ little tigers ’ — Hong Kong , Singapore , Taiwan and Korea — have growth rates which , at between eight and eleven per cent , are more than double those for most of the rest of the world . |
| 60 | Divergent estimates as to how many substances would need to be tested in more detail put the figure at between 5000 and 30 000 ’ . |