Example sentences of "at [adv] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the population due to stabilise at merely twice the current numbers , there would appear to be little cause for concern on a global level . |
| 2 | His departure for Australia came at just about the right time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Another group , the crustaceans , appeared at just about the same time . |
| 6 | " 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In this way theory encompasses at once both the broad generalizations which lead the researcher on to further enquiries and the precise statements of interrelationships which help tidy up some of the loose ends of understanding . |
| 10 | She told officers she threw her baby into the river at about 7.30pm the same day . |
| 11 | We waved them off at about 8.45am the following morning , after having a thoroughly enjoyable weekend . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the seventeenth century at least both the Dutch republic and Sweden could claim to rank as great powers in their own right . |
| 14 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 15 | ‘ Brain or no brain , I 'd rather you did n't go out alone , at least not the first time , please . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The adults emerge at almost exactly the same moment , having spent 13 ( or 17 ) years cloistered underground . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | They are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work and thus become very skilful at it " ( employer quoted by Macdonald ) . |
| 27 | Blood alcohol levels rise at pretty much the same rate in infrequent and habitual drinkers . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And you wo n't need reminding what happened here at very much the same time last night . ’ |