Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] at [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the ‘ transition to democracy ’ has occurred at exactly the time when the international economic crisis was making its presence felt with greatest intensity . |
| 2 | The growth rates of productivity in Japanese manufacturing have consistently outstripped those of its major economic rivals over the past quarter century and output per worker has increased at twice the rate recorded in other OECD states . |
| 3 | But what was the bottom income line above which recipients can be presumed to have enjoyed at least the modicum of comfort above subsistence and simple " decency " ? |
| 4 | A Labour Party survey found that in the year up to August 1987 the price of a school meal in primary schools had risen at twice the rate of inflation , and this had resulted in a reduction in the number of children taking school meals . |
| 5 | Bush 's sequence of 35 consecutive vetoes , all upheld in Congress , ended on Oct. 5 in relation to a bill to re-regulate the cable television industry , where charges had risen at twice the rate of inflation since deregulation in 1984 . |
| 6 | With regard to husbands voting as proxy for their wives , the government had wanted at least the wife 's written authorization to be necessary , but the deputies voted to retain the existing stipulation that the proxy voter must present the family registration book . |