Example sentences of "at [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |
| 2 | Mountaineering in the Pyrenees began , early in the nineteenth century , with the very practical ascents made by the mappers and surveyors , but it continued , in climbers such as Russell , with something of the flair and eccentricity with which it was also evolving at much the same time in the Alps . |
| 3 | Fresh flowers are fine for scenting the air but their life is finite , and to preserve their perfume , it was found that a mixture of flower petals , collected when they were at exactly the right stage in their development , then carefully dried or part-dried , and mixed with an ingredient which " fixed " the perfume , such as orris root ( Iris gennanica florentina ) would continue to give off fragrance for months and even years . |
| 4 | Until this time , record prices have been kept at exactly the same level in every shop in the country . |
| 5 | Since the event is attached to frame , it always occurs at exactly the same point in the movie , so sound effects are very accurately synchronised to the pictures they should accompany . |
| 6 | That decided , I bait the swim every other day at approximately the same time in the evening , for this will teach the carp that there is food available from a certain time . |
| 7 | For example , one can calculate the probability that the universe is expanding at nearly the same rate in all different directions at a time when the density of the universe has its present value . |
| 8 | The figures seem to suggest otherwise : robot orders by American firms reached a record $514m in 1989 and — despite a softening American economy — they were at roughly the same level in 1990 . |
| 9 | Parallel upheavals occur at roughly the same time in jazz , where modern styles , and , in a different way , the revivalist movement , challenge the hegemony of crooners and commercial dance-bands ; and in elite music culture , where the earlier modernist outburst , headed by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , is matched by the iconoclasm of the post-war avant-garde led by Boulez , Stockhausen and C age . |
| 10 | And as a result of the dilettante attitude you describe men have died : three of my colleagues , two at virtually the same place in Act III of Tristan . |
| 11 | Figures in the CBI report show that manufacturing output in the past decade , at precisely the same point in the economic cycle , is up by a quarter , investment is up by a third , productivity is up by a half and manufactured exports are up by nearly three quarters . |
| 12 | Two or three times a week after that Bridhe , now alert for her , would notice Luch , or at least the slight bulge in the tapestry where she hid . |
| 13 | Norman Lamont will stay until at least the next Budget in March to have the chance to take credit for next year 's expected economic recovery . |
| 14 | Total capital expenditure , £852m in the 12 months to February , will be maintained at almost the same level in the current period . |