Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one thing in the 1830s and the 1930s to provide luxuries for a minority , but it was quite a different thing to provide non-essential products at a competitive price for the whole population . |
| 2 | Philosophers , and especially philosophers of art , who say that visual perception involves something two-dimensional usually go on to say that it involves something else , a judgement whereby we get from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional , the world of solid objects at a distance from the perceiver . |
| 3 | It 's best to try to memorise all this in small sections — say , six to eight notes at a time — until you can play each complete scale pattern ascending and descending in thirds in time with a metronome . |
| 4 | All patients were receiving oxygen via nasal prongs at a rate of less than 4 L per min . |
| 5 | No mobile units at a rave ? |
| 6 | In Hampstead , author Margaret Drabble will be mixing it with Michael Foot and Labour supporters at a private party , waiting for news of their candidate Glenda Jackson . |
| 7 | She now felt herself to be like the squirrel , staring with bright inimical eyes at a sad domestic beast . |
| 8 | Ministers could borrow up to fifty books at a time . |
| 9 | Turbulent Italian passions leave the sedate Edwardians at a loss and create an oppressive sense of melodrama . |
| 10 | Schemes are in hand to improve an additional 500 homes at a cost of £4.5 million . |
| 11 | Elsewhere we have argued that part of what made René Lévesque and Lee Iacocca effective as leaders was the temporal significance of their vision : they appealed powerfully to the specific needs of specific stakeholders at a specific time . |
| 12 | In each experiment the animals were kept in individual metabolic cages at a constant temperature ( 25 ( 1 ) °C ) with a 12 hour dark-light period and free access to water . |
| 13 | TOP brass from the emergency and armed services inspected would-be uniformed recruits at a passing out parade in Teesside . |
| 14 | The Glass-Steagall Act and the McFadden Act prevented banks from operating in more than a few states at a time , and also restricted their scope for involvement in the securities markets and other financial services — areas where their international competitors already had wide powers . |
| 15 | PROPOSALS to form a Premier League Second Division were unanimously thrown out by England 's top clubs at a meeting in London yesterday . |
| 16 | the masterpiece of tactics and strategy of the Great German General Staff , so different to the brutal French attempts at a breakthrough … . |
| 17 | Crystal Palace chairman Ron Noades is behind the TV-oriented scheme — which flies in the face of FA policy — to be considered by chairmen of the 22 clubs at a meeting in London . |
| 18 | The International Atomic Energy Agency requires flasks used for transporting spent fuel to be designed to survive the impact of a 9-m fall — equivalent to an impact of 30 mph — and to survive being engulfed by fire for 30 minutes at a temperature of 800 deg . |
| 19 | This weekend road safety officers will offer free checks at a car safety centre in Milton Keynes . |
| 20 | However , any further attempts at a more comprehensive codification to bring up to date the humanitarian controls of war were frozen with the onset of the Cold War . |
| 21 | The apparatus required for imprinting , and then for measuring the efficacy of the imprinting response , was large and elaborate ; it was impossible to train more than a few birds at a time . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Capri 's undergone 2 operations at a vet 's in Wroughton . |
| 23 | THE Meadows Orchestra has for years had an excellent reputation for presenting interesting programmes at a very high level of performance . |
| 24 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 25 | Now , for just a few minutes at a time , focus on this image — and stir in desire . |
| 26 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 27 | These played for only a few minutes at a time . |
| 28 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 29 | All she knew was that she was cold and hungry and thirsty , that she had not slept for more than few minutes at a time and that all her thoughts were with Tristram . |
| 30 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |