Example sentences of "at [adv] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | His departure for Australia came at just about the right time . |
2 | Some burning sun , black clouds , rain and wind were the backdrop to another highly agreeable fortnight in Paris at just about the perfect time of year . |
3 | At just about the same time , a cigar-gnawing chief executive thousands of miles away was shredding his meticulously planned TV schedules to find a slot for a homely Australian series which was to become one of the all time surprise hits , turning many of its stars into instant celebrities . |
4 | Another group , the crustaceans , appeared at just about the same time . |
5 | " Psycho-anthropology " , a stepchild of anthropology and psychology , emerged as a sub-discipline at just about the same time that its purest source data — the least-contacted tribal peoples — were vanishing into extinction . |
6 | Theseus is shown again at just about the same time , lifting Antiope into his chariot , an over life-size group from a pediment ( fig. 65 ) . |
7 | Told me that at just about the same age , he did the same thing to try and impress the then girl in in the office . |
8 | She told officers she threw her baby into the river at about 7.30pm the same day . |
9 | We waved them off at about 8.45am the following morning , after having a thoroughly enjoyable weekend . |
10 | In 1982 , British wave power studies using the " Salter 's duck " energy device mistakenly estimated the cost of electricity generation at around twice the likely figure . |
11 | In the seventeenth century at least both the Dutch republic and Sweden could claim to rank as great powers in their own right . |
12 | Standard liver function tests revealed serum alkaline phosphatase concentrations at least twice the upper limit of normal in 13 subjects , but a raised serum bilirubin in only three . |
13 | Using an 8-bit sound sampler board with Atari , Archimedes or Amiga computers for sound analysis in physics and biology requires a sample rate of at least twice the highest signal frequency — around 20kHz . |
14 | Time ( and his bank balance ) will tell , but at least now the whole thing 's up and running he can retreat out of the public eye . |
15 | The market now stands at almost exactly the same level as when Chancellor Norman Lamont stood up and delivered his Budget speech one month ago . |
16 | The adults emerge at almost exactly the same moment , having spent 13 ( or 17 ) years cloistered underground . |
17 | Such allegations paved the way for justification of the German occupation of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 — justification made all the more credible by the appearance , at almost exactly the same time as the German navy , of British warships in Norwegian waters and of British troop landings at Narvik and Trondheim . |
18 | Nevertheless , during the winter of 1909 she had become pregnant again at almost exactly the same time as Tina did with her second son , Stu . |
19 | In Rostock , East Germany , and Greenwich , South London , the ugly face of racism reared its evil head last week at almost exactly the same time , victimising the innocent and intimidating the weak . |
20 | It will be seen that ν 5 is at almost precisely the same frequency in each case , but that both ν 2 and ν 6 vary in frequency with the mass of the halogen . |
21 | It would be tedious to quote more than a few examples of the evidence from parliamentary commissions , the STC , union reports and surveys etc. , but the following quotations are typical : " About the only work which the women can do is to stand or sit at their formes and set up type ; and to distribute the types back again into the cases , but of course this is only a portion of a compositor 's work " ( an employer ) ; " " As far as mere type-lifting is concerned , she may do , but there is other rough work in connection with compositors " work which I do not think a woman is qualified for " ( a union leader ) ; " Women … get the best , i. e. the simplest jobs … they are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work " ( an employer ) . |
22 | They are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work and thus become very skilful at it " ( employer quoted by Macdonald ) . |
23 | Blood alcohol levels rise at pretty much the same rate in infrequent and habitual drinkers . |
24 | Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface . |
25 | At very much the same hour Edmund Mortimer came out of the deep sleep that follows fever , and opened his eyes reluctantly , remembering instantly and ruefully a day and a night of indignity and discomfort before he had lost all sense of place , time and direction , and finally of his own identity . |
26 | And you wo n't need reminding what happened here at very much the same time last night . ’ |