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

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1 While I 'm having a look at this just a quick glance through erm there 's the er range of products that we print design publish , we do n't sell them , for our clients .
2 Wark , at 35 still a major influence at Ipswich , has faith in fellow Scot Brian McClair and nothing but admiration for youngster Giggs .
3 At 11 a.m. a heavy rain of ash was falling , and by 11.20 the air was so thick with ash and pumice dust that the sun was blotted out , and total darkness fell on the city , remaining until 1 p.m .
4 At 11 p.m. a terrific barrage commenced .
5 Mr. Chapman 's last entry in the journal noted that at 8.45 a.m. a ten-year-old boy had been in the sick ward for three days but had been taken much worse .
6 The guests assembled in the Salle des Maréchaux , what Mme Moulton described as ‘ the Grand Salon ’ , and at nine o'clock a small procession entered consisting of the Court officers , all in their evening costume of blue with velvet collars , followed by several attendants and then , in the middle , the Emperor and Empress .
7 Slowly at first then a loose rush .
8 On 7 June 1953 , on the occasion of a broadcast service from Thomas Street Church at 7.45 pm a receiving set was installed in Edenderry so that the congregation there could join in the worship .
9 Neglect or minimization of a task is at best only a short-term expedient , and the housewife 's awareness of this fact causes time pressures to be felt possibly more acutely than they are in other kinds of work .
10 Intelligence , even codebreaking , is at best only a fragmented adjunct to strategic planning .
11 In particular , we need to know far more about those numerous families which moved from the countryside but which experienced only a hum-drum life in the towns or at best only a modest prosperity .
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