Example sentences of "at the lower end " in BNC.

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1 The leg raises are done the opposite way round , with the feet at the lower end of the incline bench .
2 The sniping continued all afternoon with occasional and sudden mortar explosions , mainly at the lower end of the orchard , resulting in the usual casualties .
3 ( As suggested in Chapter 1 , ‘ larks ’ tend to be at the lower end of the range and ‘ owls ’ towards the top of it. ) • Where are the sense organs that pick up such external factors ?
4 At the lower end , the chain store boom of the last decade means the equivalent one-season wonders may be cheap but that 's exactly how long they last — one season .
5 Never could they securely hold the Rhine until the Frisians at the lower end of it and the Saxons across it were tamed and Christianized .
6 There were a few clubs at the lower end of the street , but it was mostly owned by monolithic movie companies .
7 The colour , as with the Scarlet Ibis , originates from blue-green algae at the lower end of the food chain .
8 Professor Philip Swallow , Head of the English Department at Rummidge University , had been elected Dean of the Arts Faculty for a three-year term ; and since the duties of this office , added to his Departmental responsibilities , drastically reduced his contribution to undergraduate teaching , he was by tradition allowed to appoint a temporary lecturer , at the lower end of the salary scale , as what was quaintly termed ‘ Dean 's Relief ’ .
9 At the lower end of the scale , this might be little more than a garden allotment worked in spare time to supplement the income from a full-time job .
10 He started his business at the lower end of the market by chartering whole trains and bringing Lancashire pensioners to small south coast hotels out of season , when they helped to retain key staff and keep the hotel doors open throughout the quiet months .
11 Differences at the lower end of the scale are obscured by the massive differences at the top end .
12 The only other shop was Hargreaves at the lower end of Brown Street between Trinity Street and St. Ann 's Street — generally known as the posh end for it had a number of very large houses .
13 Thus in R v Stanley ( 1965 ) , Lord Chief Justice Parker explained the meaning of the terms ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ by suggesting that they both convey the same idea , ‘ namely , offending against recognised standards of propriety , indecent being at the lower end of the scale and obscene at the upper end ’ .
14 This is achieved by capacitor C3 , which whilst blocking the flow of d.c. , allows the a.c. audio signal at the lower end of resistor R4 to flow to 0V .
15 It 's much easier to get a good sound , too — far easier than on the smaller amps and combos at the lower end of the market .
16 As Mr Day points out : ‘ To the small and medium sized company , all accountants are very much the same and , with the increasing competition from certified and unqualified accountants , I do n't believe that at the lower end of the market chartered accountants will ever get back on the pedestal in the same way they used to be .
17 If all incomes rise by the same percentage amount , then those at the lower end of the income scale will , of course , receive a lower extra sum of money compared to those at the higher end of the income scale .
18 Mr Lamont set an inflation target of between one and four per cent , excluding mortgage costs , with the aim to keep the figure at the lower end of the scale .
19 THESE are more common at the lower end of the spectrum , but players are known to have received appearance fees from different sources .
20 Millions , particularly at the lower end of the eight Council Tax bands , could be forced to pay a band higher than their home will be worth .
21 I believe it 's going to be a lot more difficult at the lower end of the scale unless the new Football League can come up with really competitive sponsors and TV agreements . ’
22 Gould , forced to operate at the lower end of the transfer market as Coventry tighten their belts , can only gaze in wonder as Dalglish spends multi-millionaire Jack Walker 's money .
23 He knew the projected return for such a risk venture was ‘ at the lower end ’ , and felt the companies were very wary of anything with a political content .
24 The area of the interface is about 650 2 , which is at the lower end of the range observed for molecules that exist as dimers .
25 The Interactive product , picked up when Sun acquired that part of Eastman-Kodak Co 's Unix subsidiary , is now being pushed at the lower end of the Intel marketplace and further iterations will appear , though not a Unix SVR4 version .
26 Towards the top of the scale the relatively large number of prosperous husbandmen must be taken as reflecting the high overall level of wealth reinforced by the demand of the manufacturing population for food ; at the lower end the paucity of £2 assessments can almost certainly be attributed to the cottage farmers having turned over to weaving and kindred trades .
27 However , most of the civil servants in the top category were at the lower end of the pay scale , with 82% of men and 83% of women in category 1 earning between £18020 and £27065 .
28 When examining class differences in mortality and morbidity it is usual to group together social classes I and II to form one category at the top of the class hierarchy and social classes IV and V to form the group at the lower end of the class distribution .
29 This is not to say that everything is roses hereabouts though , for when a mountainous swell approaches Stennis from the south west , the platform at the lower end of the terrace can be awash with spray and quite a lively place to be !
30 Now that the RPO label comes from Pickwick at the lower end of the full-price category , Kazuhiro Koizumi 's warmly spontaneous reading makes a good choice for a modern digital recording at less than top full-price .
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