Example sentences of "[adj] were [verb] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were pitched at a number of different levels . |
| 2 | ( These were paid at a rate of 12p per mile with 100 per cent of the extra cost paid in the first year ; 75 per cent in the second ; 50 per cent in the third ; 25 per cent in the fourth and nothing thereafter . ) |
| 3 | Even in Nigeria , Africa 's most densely populated country , with the largest urbanized , literate readership , most of the fifteen daily papers on sale in 1981 were running at a loss . |
| 4 | Of those , 35 were liquidated or went into receivership , 38 were sold at a loss , and only 29 were sold at a price that returned the initial taxpayers ' investment . |
| 5 | Four more were recruited at a meeting in December . |
| 6 | Four more were recruited at a meeting in December . |
| 7 | Of those , 35 were liquidated or went into receivership , 38 were sold at a loss , and only 29 were sold at a price that returned the initial taxpayers ' investment . |
| 8 | It is extraordinary that only last week the Leader of the Opposition confirmed that the Labour party is still wedded to bodies such as the national enterprise board , despite the fact that , of the 102 companies in which that body invested , about 35 went bust , 38 were sold at a loss and only the remainder managed even to return taxpayers ' money . |
| 9 | Mozambique 's needs for external assistance in 1990 were put at a total of $1,400 million . |