Example sentences of "at [adj] [noun] a [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 2 | It was n't its actual speed there will be sometimes it will be going very slowly , sometimes it will be going much more quickly but its average speed was sixty miles an hour because at sixty miles an hour it would cover a hundred and twenty miles , which was the distance , in two hours . |
| 3 | And he said , you know they do alright at ten pound a time they have when they 're preach in those chapels , now I do n't know , I 've no idea and good luck to them if they do ! |
| 4 | if you were , if you add two thousand seven hundred and fifty hours at twenty pound an hour you 'd be well over eighteen thousand . |
| 5 | ‘ At twenty miles a day we should reach Tam by February thirteenth , and if you 're not there by then , Geoff , we 'll be there without you . ’ |
| 6 | If he 'd driven at 40 miles an hour he would have driven straight past . |
| 7 | At four shillings a copy it came within the purse of most and indeed was judged to be ‘ a manual to the whole kingdom ’ . |
| 8 | You will have realized , for example , that if you crunch your car into your neighbour 's gatepost at 20 miles an hour you will do much more damage than if you nudge it at 10 . |