Example sentences of "at present " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present prices , the exposure is worth more than £210m . |
| 2 | The Sugar Bureau said yesterday that the report had dispelled myths and had concluded that sugar , apart from tooth decay ‘ poses no threat to health ’ at present consumption levels . |
| 3 | What emerges from an attempt to answer the last question is that the known low-cost reserves will have been significantly run down by 2025 , but total reserves are large , sufficient to last for more than 400 years at present rates of consumption , according to one estimate . |
| 4 | At present rates the vacancies will be gone by mid-June . |
| 5 | These show that the property portfolio is worth about £1.2 billion at present prices compared with £1.7 billion at the last year end . |
| 6 | For pensioners , the Citizen 's Income will be well above the present pension , and for everyone else it will be about £12.80 a week ( at present prices ) . |
| 7 | At present rates , an average private education will cost you about £50,000 by the end . |
| 8 | Each year 200,000 sq kms of rainforest are ripped out worldwide and , at present levels , scientists estimate that the tropical rainforests will be just a memory by the year 2050 . |
| 9 | The length and depth of recession will determine how long counties can hold playing staffs at present levels . |
| 10 | The staff at these branches are perhaps in most need of training , but manpower budget for relief staff and travelling expense budgets prohibits inclusion of these staff at present time ’ . |
| 11 | If America continues to produce municipal solid waste at present rates for the next 1,000 years , the whole lot will still be containable in a space 100 yards deep and 30 miles square . |
| 12 | Discounting the cost at present value , to give a more realistic estimate of the loss at the time decisions are made , emphasizes the importance of deferring births : earlier childbearing leads to a loss of £84,000 ; having the two children later loses £62,000 ( quite apart from the career implications ) . |
| 13 | At present share levels , the company is a candidate for takeover ( Kingfisher ? ) , but failing that management has once again the task of rebuilding credibility . |
| 14 | ‘ I gather though that she 's not exactly a woman without a history — I daresay Aunt exaggerates — and rather at a loose end at present — and . ’ |
| 15 | At present rates are calculated from the rateable value of business premises and the local rate poundage . |
| 16 | At present atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide , C 4 plants have substantially higher rates of photosynthesis than C 3 plants at all temperatures above approximately 15°C . |
| 17 | Recent information has shown that all but a few of those plants will produce power at a total cost above that of British coal at present prices . |
| 18 | The fact that the numbers of trainees have been maintained at present levels , despite the difficult times that the industry is experiencing , is a tribute to the continuing commitment in the industry to such levels of training , assisted by the board and the work that it is doing . |
| 19 | Most countries agreed to stabilize CO2 emissions at present levels by the year 2000 . |
| 20 | Such targets had been advocated by the majority of Western countries , including Australia , Japan and the European Communities ( EC ) , which proposed a commitment to freeze emissions of carbon dioxide ( the single largest contributor to the greenhouse effect ) at present levels by the year 2000 . |
| 21 | This produces a hypsometric curve which shows the elevations of those regions lying between the continental platforms and the ocean basins and suggests that the true break between the continents and oceans lies not at present sea level but some 200 m or so lower . |
| 22 | Myers has estimated that by the end of the century , at present rates , there will be only two relict blocks : western Brazilian Amazonia and Zaire , with smaller ones in New Guinea and the Guyana Shield of South America , but that these are unlikely to last beyond 2050 because of cultivation as , for example , the population in Rondonia in south Brazilian Amazonia increased from 1100 in 1975 to well over a million by 1986 , with an increase in cultivation from 1250km 2 to 10000 in 1982 and 17000 in 1986 . |
| 23 | The conference was marked by a split between the USA , Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia on the one hand , who resisted the imposition of specific emissions cuts , and the remaining Western countries , including Europe , Japan and Australia , on the other , who argued for the adoption of a freeze on C02 emissions at present levels by the year 2000 . |
| 24 | At present rates , car usage is expected to grow by 70 per cent over the next 20 years . |
| 25 | At present rates , the state will be logged out by 1997 . |
| 26 | It currently accounts for some 10 per cent of ozone loss , but this proportion is likely to rise to 16 per cent if present trends continue , despite the fact that at a meeting of Montreal Protocol signatories last November , it was agreed to freeze use at present levels [ see ED 68 ] . |
| 27 | Analysts said last night that oil prices could stabilise at present levels of around $18 a barrel if OPEC could prevent ‘ leakage ’ which would cause total cartel supply to rise above 24 million bpd until the end of June . |
| 28 | Translation of foreign currencies added £900,000 to profits in 1992 and , if rates stuck at present levels , could boost this year 's results by £5 million . |