Example sentences of "them [adv] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen . |
| 2 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 3 | The shares will have been borrowed and sold in the hope and expectation of buying them back at a lower price . |
| 4 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 5 | It is far easier to buy some extra flowers or to pick an additional bunch from your garden , than to explain to someone that you would like to take some of your gift home with you in order to give it back to them again at a later date ! |