Example sentences of "[vb infin] at a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hostility that siblings show can therefore commence at a very young age : 2-year-olds become increasingly adept at asking for mother 's help in a sibling conflict and can be quite explicit about what the sibling has done to them . |
| 2 | You will find that the brood will grow at a fairly constant rate and should be around 6mm in length in about five weeks . |
| 3 | PARENTS ' disapproval of their child 's friends can begin at a surprisingly young age . |
| 4 | Okay , let's look at a slightly different style . |
| 5 | There is , for example , the cultural dictum in many societies that girls should marry at a very early age , often prior to puberty . |
| 6 | Ed 's comment : Kissing Gouramis are surprisingly tolerant of water chemistry , and farm-raised specimens can breed at a more manageable size than wild fish . |
| 7 | But the former will only switch at a relatively low speed ( 42MHz ) , and the latter produce complex , power-hungry circuits . |
| 8 | With the Punks , of course , this jumble-sale of fashion would arrive at a self-consciously surreal conclusion in that the scraps were now held together , literally and very visibly , with safety-pins . |
| 9 | The loss of important relationships and retirement from a job , with its easy access to daytime companionship and the outside world , can also come at a particularly vulnerable time in life . |
| 10 | Sustained flight could then arise at a still later stage through the evolution of a basal articulation and the development of flapping movements using tergocoxal muscles that were concerned primitively with leg movements ( Tiegs , 1955 ) . |
| 11 | The harm resulting from corporate discretion might lie in its impact on particular individuals or groups , or it might exist at a more abstract level , in the social disfiguration that the concentration of power in a small number of hands represents . |
| 12 | At the other end of the scale , romantic interest would only exist at a very superficial level , and certainly there would be no question of relationships forming between the TARDIS incumbents . |
| 13 | It is rooted in his own quite complex philosophy but if we really wish to understand his argument we must start at a rather abstract level . |
| 14 | As the formation of these smaller fullerenes seems to require extensive annealing of more disorganized clusters , they may form at a relatively late stage of clustering . |
| 15 | By some means or other the natural tendencies instilled by evolution , have to be brought under control , and the child must learn at a very early age that if he is to grow up and be happy , he must behave in accordance with rules and regulations . |
| 16 | erm Helium does liquify at a much lower temperature than any other element and in fact it was not until erm this century that erm helium was finally liquified . |