Example sentences of "[noun sg] continue [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill senior , who will celebrate his 90th birthday on 25 August , has the unique place in the company 's history of being the last employee to continue working at the old Etruria factory . |
| 2 | The mist still limited visibility to less than a hundred yards and the fog-horn continued to blare at regular intervals . |
| 3 | The tweed-coated figure continued to stare at the page of the book to the left of his plate , ignoring his companion . |
| 4 | The child continued to gaze at her . |
| 5 | The thought of Reni sending any sort of word to him amused Huy ; but the boy continued to look at him seriously . |
| 6 | It is surprising that London did not industrialize and that the population continued to grow at such a rate . |
| 7 | There has been a small reduction in cigarette smoking , to 1,008 per capita ; military spending fell in 1990 and figures for 1991 were expected to show a further decline ; and significantly smaller quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals are being produced ; but , disturbingly , grain production has fallen while population continues to grow at record rates . |
| 8 | But , while inflation slowed from the summer of 1974 , prices as a whole continued to rise at an annual rate of 10 per cent during the depths of the slump . |
| 9 | Even if output continues to decline at a similar pace in this quarter before it picks up in the next ( as most forecasters expect ) , the total peak-to-trough decline will look much shallower than the 2.7% average drop in GNP during the eight recessions since the second world war . |
| 10 | The problem arose when her husband Arve , was refused an extension of his visa to continue studying at an American college . |
| 11 | By 1925 , this early optimism had disappeared and the District continued to struggle at a financial subsistence level throughout the whole period , apparently incapable of seriously addressing the resolution of the problem of financial self-sufficiency . |
| 12 | The estimated cost of the Channel tunnel continues to rise at an alarming rate , to the distress of both shareholders and the company 's bankers . |
| 13 | Their study shows that every $10 of interest payments per year and per person means 142 days less of life on average , had life expectancy continued to increase at pre-debt crisis rates . |
| 14 | The man continued to hack at the body , right down to the bone and intestines . |
| 15 | The man continued to gaze at him in alarm . |
| 16 | The man continued to look at her strangely , and then at last he said , ‘ It 'll not do you any good , love . ’ |
| 17 | It may increase slightly but if fertility continues to decline at the present rate that is unlikely . |
| 18 | One apparent reason for the delay was the Bush adminstration 's fear that to conclude a free-trade pact in mid-1992 as originally envisaged would be an electoral liability in the US presidential contest , opening Bush to attacks from protectionists that he was encouraging US companies to relocate to Mexico in search of cheap labour while unemployment continued to rise at home . |
| 19 | However , the fact that the futures contract for June settlement continued to trade at a 26-point premium to ‘ fair value ’ ( 23 points — the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now , but not paying for two and a half months ) indicates that most pundits see the market making further headway after Easter . |
| 20 | According to Professor Charles Boudouresque of Marseilles University , " the Mediterranean faces an ecological disaster if the seaweed continues to proliferate at its present rate " . |
| 21 | The research aims to examine the potential for maritime arms control measures beyond the draft Strategic Arms 1990s , there are likely to be significant political and international developments ( from budgetary problems in the US to pressure on overseas bases ) which will affect the West 's ability to continue deploying at current levels of naval levels of naval superiority . |
| 22 | JC : During the first year of the war a somewhat depleted company continued to perform at Sadler 's Wells ( Rosebery Avenue ) . |
| 23 | Many academic research projects take years to complete ; a scheme designed to support them must thus be future-proof — and this in a world where technology continues to mutate at an alarming rate . |
| 24 | After the death of his father , Tennyson and his family continued to live at the rectory for a further six years . |