Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus while labour productivity in terms of gross domestic product per head grew at 1.5 per cent per annum between 1945 and 1951 ( and by 2.5 per cent per annum between 1948 and 1951 ) it will be shown that these gains hardly nibbled at the chronic problems of overmanning in British industry ( Chapters 3 and 5 below ) . |
| 2 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |
| 3 | I cried out in shock , then gaped at the empty stairs disappearing into blackness . |
| 4 | She barely gazed at the other women who clustered round staring , washing forgotten in the excitement of this unexpected entertainment . |
| 5 | erm At the beginning of the social services committee meeting Mr moved a resolution which he previously moved at the social services planning sub-committee which listed most of the things which are presently in the the resolution but it started the social services accept the implication of the director of social services report on the future of the department 's elderly person 's homes erm , after some minutes of debate the er Democrats asked if the Tories would remove that phrase from the resolution and then tha the Democrats , the Liberal Democrats would vote for it the Tories of course er looking gift horses in the mouth as usual , said no and the the that resolution was lost . |
| 6 | But Lacuna barely glanced at the other screens . |
| 7 | Rachel barely glanced at the familiar streets . |
| 8 | She barely glanced at the bright creatures . |
| 9 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |