Example sentences of "[adv] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Promotion , however , tends to be slow , since it is generally governed by the principle of ‘ Buggins 's turn ’ ; one reaches the top or near-top only at about the age of 55 , when one is not far off retirement . |
| 2 | Now maybe the person that ran the book did n't really need to use all that , so at at the end of a a year , say for instance , they 'd quite a bit of money lying on that that black book . |
| 3 | Hewitt ( 1986 ) observes that " black youngsters themselves often reach a peak of Creole use in their late teens " ( p. 193 ) while where white Creole users are concerned , " most youngsters who employ Creole cease to do so at about the age of sixteen " . |
| 4 | The middle sister discovered the body when she came home at about the sixth hour of night . ’ |
| 5 | Also at about the same moment as the homing rat disappeared into the maze of runs under the city , scurrying along in faultless obedience to an ancient instinct , the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork picked up the letters delivered that morning by albatross . |
| 6 | But when Ericsson came onto the market , the new ‘ lightning fast ’ 120ns memory had just been launched , which made their Ericsson WS286 the fastest AT in the world , at 8MHz . |
| 7 | Now at about the time that that letter was written on the twenty second of October er Mr had the meeting at the National Westminster Bank that had been arranged between himself and a Mrs and it is clear from er this meeting that the bank would no longer er , given that the Frinton property was not to be offered as security , prepared to offer the sum , the substantial sums that they had originally agreed to do and they were now only prepared to offer very much smaller sums and the plaintiff 's case is that the only way that they were going to be able to proceed to complete on this matter was er by selling their homes , their family home at and it is the plaintiff 's case , certainly in relation to er the losses that they have sustained as a result of the breach of contract , alleged in this case , that er if they had not been forced to go ahead to complete on this deal they would not have been required to sell their family home . |
| 8 | Tt , well at at the moment I am therefore due in actual fact two weeks ' holiday |
| 9 | int he village you know , except maybe at at the Social or something like that , said , Come on up and sing and then I forget my words and that 's me . |
| 10 | Then at about the age of 5 years , children go to school , making a transition to a social environment which is very different from that of the home . |
| 11 | For several years their task was to open and close the trap doors which were essential for controlling the circulation of air , then at about the age of twelve they moved on to pushing the underground wagons . |
| 12 | Taking Harry gingerly with me I moved to the left , towards the wall , and with great relief found that there was indeed a walkway there at about the height of my waist . |
| 13 | The Friday we finally got there at about the traffic was so bad because Friday night as well . |
| 14 | The nationalism is there at at the end of the lead already is n't it ? |
| 15 | The last of these classes consists of the famous eight medreses which Mehmed II had built round his mosque in Istanbul : the mosque itself was finished in 875/1470–1 , and the medreses were finished presumably at about the same date . |
| 16 | At present , if his analysis is correct , the Sun is approaching a maximum of the 76-year cycle , and will start to decline in size once again at about the end of the present decade . |
| 17 | There was only a weak detection at 408MHz , again at about the same phase . |
| 18 | That is , if ( for the purposes of semantic or pragmatic interpretation ) we think of deictic expressions as anchored to specific points in the communicative event , then the unmarked anchorage points , constituting the deictic centre , are typically assumed to be as follows : ( i ) the central person is the speaker , ( ii ) the central time is the time at which the speaker produces the utterance , ( iii ) the central place is the speaker 's location at utterance time or CT , ( iv ) the discourse centre is the point which the speaker is currently at in the production of his utterance , and ( v ) the social centre is the speaker 's social status and rank , to which the status or rank of addressees or referents is relative . |
| 19 | Certainly at about the beginning of late Cretaceous times we have one of the best documented transgressions of all time . |