Example sentences of "[vb past] stood at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decrees granted for divorce , which had stood at only 27,000 in 1961 , and 80,000 in 1971 , reached 175,000 in the mid-1980s , from which women suffered most . |
| 2 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 3 | As Thiercelin backed to the window , Rannou , who had stood at his post all along , scrambled up and out . |
| 4 | In 1918 the exchange rate had stood at 1 US dollar to 9 Polish marks ; by 1923 the rate was 1 US dollar to 15 million Polish marks . |
| 5 | In June 1934 membership had stood at 21,861 . |
| 6 | He had thought of Harry all the way out of Rome to Leonardo da Vinci , all the time that he had stood in the check-in line , all the time he had sat on the Alitalia , all the time he had stood at Customs and Immigration at Athens International , all the time in the taxi out to the Kifisia suburb . |
| 7 | Pre-tax profits on UK sales for the entire industry , which had stood at 8 per cent in 1978 , dropped to zero in 1979 . |
| 8 | They had stood at one set all , but Hammond held two service breaks in the third . |
| 9 | The game had stood at thirty-love when he tossed the ball up to serve and the man at the back of the opposite court had watched him hop and stumble , then fall , the racquet leaving his hand on the upswing and curving away . |
| 10 | For instance , infant mortality , which had stood at 147 per thousand ( births ) at the turn of the century , was reduced to 20 per thousand in 1965 and nine per thousand in 1987 . |
| 11 | In 1986 these had stood at £99.4 billion ; by the beginning of 1992 they had fallen to £16 billion . |
| 12 | Vividly could he still recall his nurses preventing him from going to her there , and he knew he had stood at a window just like this , gazing with longing through the trees to the building where his mother was imprisoned . |
| 13 | While the ACP countries had sought an overall package totalling 15,500 million European currency units ( 1 ECU=USdollars 1.11661 as at Oct. 27 , 1989 ) over five years , the EC 's offer had stood at 10,800 million ECU when talks broke down on Oct. 30 . |
| 14 | The New York Times of Aug. 14 reported that Iraq had transferred between US$3,000 million and $5,000 million in gold , foreign currency and goods from Kuwait and that this had significantly increased Iraq 's financial reserves which had stood at an estimated US$6,500 million before the invasion . |
| 15 | The EPS had stood at 90,000 in January 1990 but , in line with Chamorro 's April inaugural pledge [ see p. 37370 ] , it had been reduced in size to 33,000 by October . |
| 16 | The previous age limits had stood at 35 for men and 30 for women . |
| 17 | Earlier , on July 4 , President Chiluba had announced that the country 's foreign debt , which had stood at US$8,000 million early in the year [ see p. 38752 ] , had been reduced to US$6,500 million . |
| 18 | Twelve years ago , he said , President Ronald Reagan had stood at the same podium and said if the national debt were stacked in $1,000 bills , ‘ the stack would reach 67 miles into space . |
| 19 | The number out of work in Britain which had stood at little more than half a million in 1969 , had more than doubled by the end of the 1970s ( then almost doubled again in the following two years ) . |