Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Luckily this family all weighed in at over 15 grammes … and that means enough fat to see them through the winter .
2 Ann Marie 's cousin , Chloe Marsh , now almost two , weighed in at only two pounds after being born prematurely at the hospital .
3 Killion raced down at almost three times the German 's speed , and saw his shots plucking and smashing at the lumbering fuselage .
4 Quite suddenly all the guards jumped in , their tommy-guns banging against the sides of the carriage and their leather harness creaking , and the train chugged off at about fifteen miles an hour towards Bromberg .
5 They are long , narrow strips of land surrounded on at least three sides by canals .
6 " Ali Yegani ( Sinaneddin Yusuf : d. 945/1538–9 ) who taught in at least three medreses before reaching the Iznik medrese where , in about 921–2/1515–16 , he was receiving 45 akce a day .
7 I maintained my height over this , diving the extra off , rounded out and touched down at about 250 metres into the field .
8 The rate of pay for a navvy was 6½d per hour , which averaged out at about 28 shillings per week .
9 ‘ So , ’ Leith swallowed down at least four contradictions she could have lobbed at him , and queried sarcastically instead , ‘ what would you like to talk about ? ’
10 There was no royalty , no civic dignitaries being honoured as the 2 Buccaneers flew over at just 250 feet .
11 It was time to return home so I jerked the machine into a spiral dive , just in case the remaining CR 42s or the two 109s were still in the vicinity , flattened out at about 800 feet and jinked my way back to Takali .
12 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 .
13 ‘ We eventually took off at about 0620 hrs. and everything went according to plan .
14 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 .
15 Enthusiasm for the content of the materials — especially in lower primary classes — was still clearly evident and at state level there was considerable resolve to maintain aspects of the new curriculum and the closer supervision it entailed in at least some schools , despite the challenge of universal primary education which effectively meant that everyone had to try to do more with less .
16 Miners , dockers , industrial workers , teachers and civil servants struck in at least 30 towns , demanding pay rises of between 100 and 200 per cent .
17 Does he not also accept that much of his programme was going to come about in any event , that he has deliberately delayed the urban programme announcement , that six of our valleys are still not designated areas under the Act and that a proper revitalisation of the valleys would require massive and genuinely new investment spread over at least eight years , not advertising hype spread over three ?
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