Example sentences of "at [adj] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 At eleven o'clock a group of children came over the hill .
2 Copyhold was by inheritance in thirteen out of twenty-five Buckinghamshire manors surveyed in the reigns of Edward VI and Mary ; on two there were lifeholds only , and at three either a term of years or tenure at will ; six had a medley of all modes .
3 The ironic thing about the film was that it was n't different at all just a rehash of the best TV sketches .
4 At first just a ring of bubbles will gather on the surface of the liquid .
5 But we can be fairly confident , as a starting-point , that Rizzio , Darnley and Bothwell , chief actors in the drama of the last two years of her personal rule , are at best only a part of the explanation .
6 At 2.30 a.m. a concentration of four hundred guns opened on a front of eight hundred yards , and the barrage began to march across the minefields and defences at a pace of one hundred yards in three minutes .
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