Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he 's no long he no although he no longer competes , he drove hydroplane at an international standard , was highly competitive and had many wins and top level events to his credit . |
| 2 | AIR France has dropped an advertising campaign which poked fun at an English town after being bombarded with protests by furious residents . |
| 3 | At the end of February Greenspan remained optimistic and committed to maintaining interest rates when revised figures for real growth in GNP in the final quarter of 1989 showed growth at an annual rate of 0.9 per cent rather than the estimated 0.5 per cent . |
| 4 | The Northern also revealed how North of England Investments loaned money at an annual interest rate of 660pc . |
| 5 | Straw plaiters started work at an early age and the occupation was a common one in the South Midland counties ; for instance , in 1871 about a third of all Bedfordshire girls aged between ten and fifteen were recorded in the census returns as plaiters . |
| 6 | Joanne Gurney spat abuse at an Old Bailey jury for convicting her live-in lover Frederick Feathers of murder . |
| 7 | Whereas in a normal year the king 's usual revenue barely met his obligations , in years of hostility expenditure outran income at an alarming rate . |