Example sentences of "[adv] at [num] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm all at sixes and sevens . |
2 | Although previous reports have suggested , however , a far more virulent course with the Gardner phyenotype , family 1 , which clearly shows this phenotype , has individuals with none and four polyps only at 32 and 54 years respectively . |
3 | The midnight sum indeed lasted all night , and one scientist became the ghost of the ship , a phantom who one would glimpse briefly only at three or four in the morning . |
4 | In short , as the 1950s came to a close , Western Europe was truly and literally at sixes and sevens . |
5 | Twice nightly at 6-15 and 8-15 |
6 | However , they are usually one-year , full-time courses , though some extend over two years , and entry is normally at seventeen or eighteen . |
7 | Their limbs , torsos and heads can make straight , angled or rounded lines , usually at one and the same time , according to the natural structure of the dancers ' bones and how they are activated by the muscles . |
8 | There are three models , with output ratings of 250 , 500 and 1,000va — aimed respectively at 286s or smaller , 386 and 486 PCs , and workstations like the SPARCs and IBM RS/6000 . |
9 | No matter what disasters in the world , no matter what the weather , the dedicated company of campanologists assembled every Wednesday night and the bells of the Norman tower rang out over the Suffolk fields , ceasing promptly at nine lest they should disturb the local population . |
10 | Having completed our ‘ good for us ’ walk , we settled down by one of the two huge log fires with our paperbacks in the happy anticipation that tea would arrive promptly at four and would consist of improbably thinly cut home-made bread and butter and other bakings , whose smell had been pervading the lounge for some time with forecasts of gratifications to come . |
11 | Mrs Brown says she passed urine twice during the night , possibly at 4.30 or 5.30 . |
12 | Mrs Brown says she passed urine twice during the night , possibly at 4.30 or 5.30 . |
13 | We see an incredible number of young people , and it worries me immensely that these are people at sixteen who 've been chucked out of their homes , and they are being pushed down by bureaucracy , that they are being penalised for leaving home at sixteen when it is not their own fault , it is the fault of well it is the result of family breakdown that they are being pushed out . |
14 | Jean left home at 16 and went to live with a friend . |
15 | In her own words : ‘ I left home on the 9.30 a.m. train to attend a Medau class in London , travelled across to Balham in time for music , followed by the evening of training , then still in track suit back to Paddington for the 10.30 p.m. train , arriving home at 1 or 2 a.m. the next day . |
16 | coming home at fifteen and he 's still playing at zombies |
17 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
18 | Another girl , placed in a children 's home at 13 after her mother had a nervous breakdown and her father left for another woman , described her shock at finding it was also a place of ‘ correction ’ for young offenders . |
19 | Penny left home at 15 and married at 18 , having a baby quickly — and after what she says was a fairly happy period of her life , she began to go downhill fast . |
20 | They creep in early at four and a half thousand but the significant one is at five thousand . |
21 | Also at ten and a half the baby book comments : ‘ Is prudish about bodies ’ . |
22 | Do you know one of the very first things I noticed and liked in you , was the way you shook one 's hand , and looked straight at one as you said goodbye . |
23 | Rats undergoing massive small bowel resection weighed less than controls both at one and two weeks whether or not they received CR-1409 ( 8–14% less at one week , p<0.001 ; 10–24% less at two weeks , p<0.001 ) . |
24 | One could distinguish gamma ray bursts from such effects by observing flashes simultaneously at two or more fairly widely separated locations . |
25 | ‘ I was very pleased when it rained , as Silver Fling is best really at five and a half furlongs , and the easier ground made it more of a test ’ . |
26 | If you remember , I 'd had trouble enough when I was fifty convincing people to take me on and now at fifty-nine or sixty there were hardly any employment opportunities left open to me . |
27 | Yeah Oh Ange your shopping Right see you at half past twelve then Ange , come over a bit before at twelve if you want . |
28 | He won the Mildmay of Flete at Cheltenham two years ago at 66–1 and could give Robert Bellamy a memorable ride . |
29 | Er my money 's gone on Storm Storm Alert about ten days ago at twelves and |
30 | Indeed , aggression is one of the most predictable ( stable ) psychological traits or attributes over the life-span ; children who are particularly aggressive at the age of three are also likely to be the children who fight and quarrel most frequently at fourteen and even in early adulthood . |