Example sentences of "[adv] at an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients at increased risk include those with family members who died suddenly at an early age and those who have experienced syncope . |
| 2 | Although you should make a specific time when candidates can ask their own questions you should also allow time for questions which arise naturally at an earlier stage of the interview . |
| 3 | ‘ Theft of property is one big area of concern , although there are a large number of thefts of and from motor vehicles — especially at an open site like Risley — and a number of road accidents , ’ he added . |
| 4 | It is to be expected , therefore , that the major flows of elderly migrants will be either local ( adjusting to changing housing needs ) or from urban to rural areas , perhaps at an interregional scale . |
| 5 | Thus before submitting the report , the librarian should be able to see the software demonstrated , perhaps at an in-service training day ; to use the software either at the school library service HQ or by borrowing ( but not copying ) the software for use in the school . |
| 6 | One Victorian scheme was for a tunnel lit by candles , where horses would draw passengers across in special vehicles , pausing only at an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for everyone to come up for air and water . |
| 7 | I was looking then only at an empty stretch of spaceport beyond the comm-booth that she 'd called from . |
| 8 | She 's competent enough at an undemanding level , but I ca n't envisage her coping with a position of responsibility . ’ |
| 9 | By the late 1980s , the largest organizations were likely to operate most efficiently if they did so at an international level , raising capital internationally and supplying international markets . |
| 10 | You do so at an unfamiliar garage and then discover that the one you had planned to stop at was closed . |
| 11 | To prove not just a mutual love of music but a mutual love of each other Kylie and Dannii sang a duet together at an Australian anti-drugs concert — the song they sang was appropriately called ‘ Sisters ’ . |
| 12 | wearing away at an interior shore : |
| 13 | Here she found Mrs Geary , kindly smoothing Twomey 's hair with her hand , while he boned away at an elegant shoe . |
| 14 | The change over the past 2,700 years means days have been getting longer at an average rate of 1.7 milliseconds per 100 years . |
| 15 | The Himalayas , whose rise began maybe 50 million years ago , are still climbing heavenwards at an average rate of seven millimetres per year , double the speed of their advance ten million years ago , though such rates are by no means constant . |
| 16 | It shot backwards at an incredible velocity , rattling its passengers up and down . |
| 17 | Any procedure of numerical integration will involve approximations that have the same effect as unknown small changes in the initial conditions ( although they are introduced continuously , not just at an initial instant ) . |
| 18 | VILLAGERS can have their say in Burwardsley tonight at an open meeting of the parish council . |
| 19 | In the 1780s the Norfolk cattle in general were described as blood red with white or mottled faces like miniature Herefords and able to fatten easily at an early age . |
| 20 | However , Fahey and Narayanan comment , in practice scanning frequently detects environmental change that is already at an advanced state . |
| 21 | Suppose that on the basis of the observations at T 1 , we select a group of children of low reading ability for experimental remedial education , X. Even if X is useless , a child 's performance at T 2 can not ( or is unlikely to ) deteriorate since it is already at an extreme low but , through chance variation , it may move upwards giving an overall appearance of improvement . |
| 22 | The western section is already at an acceptable standard but the east section is in poor condition , virtually unusable when wet . |
| 23 | You should , of course , still be treated fairly and this may entail your employer looking round his organisation , perhaps even the whole corporate group of which he is part , to see if you can be fitted in elsewhere at an appropriate level , before finally deciding to terminate your employment . |
| 24 | A full ‘ English ’ breakfast would include fruit juice , cereal , sometimes kippers or smoked haddock , bacon or sausages , eggs , tomatoes , toast , marmalade , and tea or coffee , usually at an extra charge . |
| 25 | Further telephone borrowing is possible at the discretion of the Bank and usually at an increased rate of interest . |
| 26 | In the case of the MA(Honours) in Italian and those joint honours degrees in which Italian is the major element , the third year of study will be spent in Italy , usually at an Italian university or teaching in an Italian secondary school . |
| 27 | They are ongoing in that they are still at an early stage and in that the process of applying them right across the whole of the NHS will take several years-probably up to the end of the century . |
| 28 | Their solution was of course a key objective of the Powick project , which was still at an early operational stage in 1979 . |
| 29 | Microtus makes her nest underground in a burrow , so she can safely bring her young into the world when they are still at an early stage of their development , and then within a few hours , start on the business of producing the next litter . |
| 30 | This research is still at an early stage . |