Example sentences of "[subord] at the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Drag ( but not lift ) then increases with length , so that aerodynamic costs rise , albeit at the same low rate as for pintails .
2 It is not difficult to construct cases in which firms have unequal marginal costs and some firms earn higher profits at the Nash equilibrium than at the joint profit-maximizing allocation .
3 In the event , however , Labour actually suffered a swing against it compared with 1986 , lost a net total of 20 seats and , in some boroughs , even performed less well than at the 1987 general election .
4 But by now , the whole Lockerbie investigation was dogged by a sense of futility felt nowhere more keenly than at the Scottish Fatal Accident Inquiry which , just before Christmas 1990 , recessed for a month after hearing 150 witnesses in 46 days .
5 The SNP vote is higher than at the last three elections , but it is a soft vote , and still well below the figure it reached in October 1974 .
6 We will certainly keep you informed of our progress but I do n't expect to be able to send you anything until at the earliest some time while you are in Edinburgh .
7 Even if at the next general election Labour does better than ever before in attracting working-class support , say 80 per cent of the working class , it still would not have a majority of the vote .
8 By May 1989 inflation at over 8 per cent was at the same level as at the 1979 general election and unemployment , though falling , was higher than in 1979 .
9 As at the last general election , and under the UK system of government , Labour , with 39 per cent of the vote , has 68 per cent of the Scottish parliamentary seats , whereas the SNP , with 21.5 per cent of the vote , has 4 per cent of the seats .
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