Example sentences of "at [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I agree , I find it quite difficult to drive a lot of vehicles because I 'm very small and especially if you 've got small feet and I think there 's a big problem in that area and that it should be looked at for small people driving cars .
2 Up at for five pound a night .
3 ‘ As nasty a thing as I 've looked at for many a day ’ , says one of the characters in Trollope 's Vicar of Bullhampton of the local Nonconformist chapel .
4 I 'd worked at for 18 years and often came to the Terminal to check the weigh-bridge .
5 These last bear looking at for one thing only , and that is the rich , exquisite Basque family names carved on them : Iharour-Lascagne , Uharretuko Elissalde-Olaizola .
6 The special case of a disseminated labour force , the railway and other communications workers , will be looked at for 1922 .
7 The third member of the team is production supervisor , who previously worked at for 34 years .
8 A gouache painting can be worked at for any length of time , varying from the essential speed required in capturing sky effects through to the meticulous detail of foreground rock formations grasses and wild flowers .
9 Last year , you know , totally rat-arsed. now , he 's putting up a list of all the poems he wants us to look at for next week .
10 To find out more about the drop in centre at for unemployed people , or the sessions at the project , then call us here at the Trent F M Careline on Nottingham .
11 we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine
12 A plaque on a wall is admittedly not much to look at for those with a passion for working machinery and dramatic industrial landscapes , but this one marks the site of the foundation of that industry which has had a greater impact on civilization than any other .
13 Er previous to that I held the licence for The Mason 's Arms at for three years previous to that and before that I 've been connected with the catering and licence trade from being fifteen .
14 The world tiger population is estimated at between 6,000-9,000 ; if poaching continues at the present rate the tiger will be extinct by early next century , according to expert predictions .
15 A crowd estimated at between 100,000 and 200,000 gathered near the royal palace , and police opened fire ; the resulting death toll was estimated at between 35 and 150 ( including three foreign tourists ) , while more than 200 were wounded .
16 The World Health Organization 's quarterly update statistics issued on Oct. 4 had estimated worldwide cases of infection with HIV ( the human immunodeficiency virus ) at between nine and 11,000,000 , of whom 1,500,000 had developed AIDS .
17 The programme has attracted good audiences , estimated at between 300,000 and 350,000 people .
18 The number of abortions performed each year was estimated at between 300,000 and 600,000 , compared with 550,000 live births .
19 But of course simply having refrigerators which can hold food at between 0 and +5 degrees C is n't enough .
20 Individual ministries would face an average 5 per cent cut in administrative spending , and public-sector pay rises were to be contained at between 4.5 and 5.5 per cent .
21 The rise in total goods and services available over this period is put at between thirty-fold and fifty-fold .
22 The altitude of the plantation plays an important part in the final flavour , with the best quality coffee being found at between 3,000 and 6,000 feet above sea level .
23 Machungo said that priorities for 1990 included cutting inflation from 40 to 15-18 per cent , with GDP growth targeted at between 4 and 6 per cent .
24 Meanwhile successive years of minimal house building had led to a national housing shortage , variously estimated at between 400,000 and 800,000 dwellings .
25 High levels of production , estimated at between 400,000 and 800,000 bpd above the ceiling set in July , continued throughout December amid increasing prospects of a Gulf war .
26 Contemporary estimates for the period 1692 – 98 put the number of placemen at between 97 and 136 ( to which would have to be added receivers of unreported Crown pensions or bribes ) , a figure which may have risen to 200 by 1714 .
27 Despite having some of the largest base-metal mines in Europe , Ireland has collected only £5 million in mining royalties , which have typically run at between five and nine per cent of profits since 1970 .
28 Campaigners are now calling on the government to destroy the country 's stockpile of rhino horns , estimated at between five and 10 tonnes , or the equivalent of 2,000-4,000 dead rhinos .
29 The investigation involves losses estimated at between five hundred thousand and a million pounds .
30 The investigation involves losses estimated at between five hundred thousand and a million pounds .
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