Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [adv prt] at [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The rate of pay for a navvy was 6½d per hour , which averaged out at about 28 shillings per week .
2 The tradition , which goes back at least 2,500 years , continued until the early part of this century .
3 Last night a benefit concert was set to take place at the Bristol Bierkeller , featuring Extreme Noise Terror , perhaps Britain 's foremost thrash band , now legendary for turning out songs which clock in at under one second .
4 It is likely also that works like Aristotle 's Masterpiece , which went through at least 25 editions between 1684 and 1930 , were a common form for the distribution of sexual knowledge , until attacked by the medical profession in the 1930s .
5 Newens 's views were perhaps influenced by his contacts with Ceauşescu and he had written or edited at least three books about Ceauşescu : Nicolae Ceauşescu — the Man , His Ideas and the Achievements on the Road to Socialism ( which appeared in at least three editions between 1972 and 1978 to satisfy popular demand ) , Talking with Nicolae Ceauşescu , and Nicolae Ceauşescu — The Effort to Create a Modern Romania .
6 The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent .
7 Half of all animal extinctions have occurred this century and it is believed that another one million species could be lost by the year 2000 , which works out at over 270 extinctions every day for the next ten years .
8 Keep it short is one obvious piece of advice — the SHE-Pandora short story competition has an upper limit of 5000 words , which works out at roughly 15 pages of A4 typed with double spacing .
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