Example sentences of "at the present [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When travelling in the country , you sense an enormous fear and anger at the present reforms ; in well-healed suburbs , there is approval of the reforms but still a great fear of the random violence they have released . ’ |
| 2 | Exhaustive computer simulations done in the US show that even at the present prices for fuel , conventional sailing ships are only marginally competitive when all is counted . |
| 3 | He said that he and Karen could have , he said at the present prices he and this Karen that he 's , that left him er they , they could have had erm a place together because some one bedroom flats , two bedroom flats around are going at thirty five thousand , thirty one . |
| 4 | At the present deductions are subject to considerable doubt , for the detailed properties of landform have not been studied carefully enough and the fundamental aspects of most geomorphic processes are still poorly understood . |
| 5 | According to Laurie Boorman , a scientist with the National Environment Research Council , at the present rates of degradation half the areas of coastal marshes would disappear within 50 years . |