Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 2 | From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it . |
| 3 | This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life . |
| 4 | A few decades ago at the US Department of Agriculture Experimental Station in Beltsville , Maryland , only female clucks were hatched from synthetically fertilised turkey eggs . |
| 5 | On Monday , a meeting was demanded with Francis Pym , a newcomer who had replaced William Whitelaw as secretary of state for Northern Ireland some weeks earlier at the beginning of December . |
| 6 | I 'll remember instead another lecture I once attended , some years ago at the Cheltenham Literary Festival . |
| 7 | ‘ Primitivism ’ the big show that addressed the relationship between the two a few years ago at the Museum of Modern Art got the debate off to a controversial and often acrimonious start . |
| 8 | When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’ |
| 9 | This rude awakening was , however , still a few years away at the time when Dustin joined . |
| 10 | ‘ Nevertheless , Mrs Atkins , I would appreciate it if you could answer a few questions down at the station … ’ |
| 11 | But she and Matthew had had so many cold steely little tussles these last few weeks over so many small things — like the panelling in the hall and cutting some trees down at the side of the house which she said darkened the drawing-room and which he had gone berserk about — that Sara did not feel she could be obstructive again . |
| 12 | Anything that kept her from running into Nicolo Sabatini was absolutely fine , which was why she had been delighted a few mornings later at the breakfast-table when he 'd told her he would be away for a few days . |
| 13 | Then a few soldiers up at the goods store fired into their own men . ’ |
| 14 | Just a few miles away at the Camas camp 1100 refugees with a different story to tell are also preparing for winter . |
| 15 | But just a few miles away at the Bennett House School it 's a different story . |
| 16 | Dining a few nights later at the Beefsteak , I was reminded by a bright spark that Home Secretaries scarcely ever become Prime Ministers . |
| 17 | Enthusiasm for botanical discovery took Captain Hutchinson of the Godolphin some miles inland at the Cape of Good Hope , drawn , Miller reports , by the fragrance of beautiful flowers . |
| 18 | Like all scientific findings , mine are actually nothing but readings on meters , printouts on papers , numbers derived from machines ( nothing but pointer-readings , the positivist philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach called such observations back at the beginning of this century ) , which I manipulate to extract meaning and which I then endeavour to extrapolate back to stand for , to represent , deductions about the behaviour of molecules , cells and organisms in the real world . |
| 19 | It is in everyone 's interest to fill out these forms accurately at the outset so that the necessary deductions and exemptions can be made . |
| 20 | So if these beggars up at the top it was had been er thought out had a break well er it was alri =right for the others working down in the bottom to have a a break . |
| 21 | Pointing at the three musclemen positioned outside his HQ 's entrance , he added : ‘ We 'd be stupid not to have these guys around at the moment . ’ |
| 22 | British television was created with this idea in its heart , and has continued to develop over the last fifty years with these ideals firmly at the forefront . |
| 23 | Er minding motors outside the Arms and the Bridge Hotel every night , maybe only get sixpence or sevenpence cos there was n't that many cars about at the time . |
| 24 | Lily said he was wasting his money , and he was ; they were all papists down at the Bridewell . |
| 25 | Finally the critical element in outcome is effectiveness but as already mentioned there are still big gaps in our knowledge of the effects of many procedures both at the individual and population level . |
| 26 | There was a ring of sadness in his voice which she found puzzling until she remembered something from the past — Eddie 's voice repeating what he 'd told her all those years ago at the Oulton Park circuit . |
| 27 | No , no — freedom with responsibility , that was the elusive formula we pondered all those years ago at the LSE . |
| 28 | , yeah it 's come in handy to put those things right at the beginning , that 's the first thing you look at , you do it on purpose . |
| 29 | Once we 've got those tiles off at the bottom there |
| 30 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |