Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the close , the index was just 4.5 points down at 2,277.1 . |
| 2 | NEW YORK ( Reuter ) — Programme buying and a rush of short-covering sent US blue chips to new highs , with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing 40.84 points up at 2,754.56 . |
| 3 | Section 6.2 looks again at conventional applications development , but in the overall context of a database approach , and then we look at alternative ways of developing applications , again in a database environment . |
| 4 | The 100-share index was 43 points up at 2,436.5 when trading on the Stock Exchange officially closed at 4.30 pm , reversing the fall of the past week . |
| 5 | This goes back at least as far as Aristotle . |
| 6 | This averages out at one councillor for every 2,200 members of the population although as Widdicombe ( 1986 , paras 213–16 ) notes there are major disparities . |
| 7 | This averages out at £369 per person 2pc up on last year . |
| 8 | That 's where all the official entertaining goes on at the regatta — just to give you an idea of the scale of it , they 'll be putting away 50,000 pints of Pimm 's , 6,000 bottles of champagne and 3,000 pounds of strawbnerries . |
| 9 | This stands currently at about $22,000 ( ahead of France at around $20,000 ) and is exceeded by Norway , Sweden , Finland and Switzerland . |
| 10 | Farther to the northwest ( Fig. 6 ) at the Ems estuary and in the southernmost part of the German North Sea , the Rm-values decrease drastically , although the Top Carboniferous occurs only at somewhat shallower depths , in part even at significantly greater depths ( Norderney Z1 ) than on the Oldenburg Ridge . |
| 11 | Stationary vehicles may cause considerable nuisance , through having doors slammed , sound-systems overamplified or starter-motors repeatedly engaged , especially when this happens late at night or early in the morning . |
| 12 | A situation like this continues only at the peril of all of us , and a heavy responsibility rests on the new TECs to set it right . |
| 13 | There is not space to discuss here even briefly the many controversial issues raised in the literature on corporatism , but in so far as territorial politics are concerned , it must be observed that even if there was or is a trend towards greater centralisation of political representation , this does not at all mean that there might not also be a functional deconcentration towards the periphery in specific cases . |
| 14 | This does not at all mean that the study of aphasia and theories about the language processing system have nothing to say to each other . |
| 15 | All this does not at all mean that monopoly , within our framework of discussion has become less potentially dangerous or less important . |
| 16 | The thin end of the wedge is that this chips away at the core of what makes union unique : it is a game for all shapes and sizes . |
| 17 | This runs freely at the end of the lyric composition as finally the speaker explicitly asserts his capacity to sing for love . |
| 18 | This works out at the equivalent of just £10 per day . |
| 19 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 20 | This works out at £16 an hour . |
| 21 | This works out at 1,460 rupees a year for a rickshaw worth just 2,000 , so he could have bought ten rickshaws with the money he has given the owner over the last 15 years . |
| 22 | The planners cheerfully calculate that this works out at only 60 cents a day per person — and that this cost will be offset by people having to spend less on doctors and medicines . |
| 23 | This comes out at less than 2 years for food packaging , 2–10 years for many domestic articles , cars etc , and over 10 years for construction materials and household fittings and appliances . |
| 24 | All this comes about at a time when the future of GMAG is under review . |
| 25 | The market did indeed peak at 150.6 points up at one point . ) |
| 26 | The Outlaw Posse 's Tizer-sponsored under 18s kicks off at Brighton 's Zap Club on June 1 , then travels to Manchester Konspiracy ( 9 ) , Birmingham Hummingbird ( 10 ) and London Fridge ( 23 ) |
| 27 | On Wall Street , the Dow Jones index closed 10 points up at 2,731.23 . |
| 28 | The FT-SE 100 index of leading shares dropped 42 points to 2,270 on the announcement of the base rate increase to 15 per cent , but rallied and closed on Thursday only 30.5 points off at 2,281.6 . |
| 29 | If all goes well at Oxford , there could be more nurseries dotted around Britain 's railways in years to come . |
| 30 | The FTSE Index was 18 points up at 10pm but this was later halved before a later rally saw it close 12.1 points up at 2363.5 . |