Example sentences of "[verb] at its [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , so his grant will be pegged at its 1990 level ; but he ca n't see himself borrowing from the loan scheme introduced by the Government through the major banks . |
| 2 | Significantly , following lobbying by Feminists Against Censorship amongst others , Liberty narrowly voted at its 1990 AGM to reverse the position adopted a year earlier in favour of anti-pornography legislation . |
| 3 | We stand for some time looking at its forty-six Doric columns ( some of them , sadly , fallen ) , appreciating the entasis , the capital formation , the details of the entablature , and so on . |
| 4 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 5 | Did he also receive representations about 15 Parachute regiment to the effect that it should be allowed to continue at its five locations in Scotland ? |
| 6 | Nearly 500 employees work at its ten regional offices . |
| 7 | ( pl. 13 ) Similar to the herati , but composed of a single flower within a slightly curvilinear diamond lattice , terminating at its four points in flower heads of equal size , which is repeated across the field . |