Example sentences of "[adv] at [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were immensely hairy , had breasts that hung down at least a yard and were used by the males as beasts of burden . |
| 2 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 3 | Start filling them in at least a week before you embark on the diet , so that you have a ‘ base-line ’ from which to judge the effect of the diet . |
| 4 | Yet such an assessment ignores the independent forces at work in the interwar years which caused economic performance to fall well below economic potential ; it also fails to take into account the record of poor growth over at least a quarter-century before 1914 . |
| 5 | We are already at quite a distance from the original simple idea of government by the people . |
| 6 | There may , however , have been a diminution in tribute and revenues from possibly less securely held border regions and it would be surprising if the political problems of this period were not at least a factor in what has been called a ‘ drastic economic collapse ’ |
| 7 | We have no wish to threaten Transworld , or indeed anyone else , but if Arrow 's number two position in Alex Hamilton 's Guardian analysis of 1992 's top paperback sellers to Corgi 's number one slot is not at least a challenge to them then I can think of now other way of restoring Sarah 's belief in her own foresight . |
| 8 | These civil laws allow judges to grant an " interim injunction " to stop publication until the trial of the action — which is usually at least a year afterwards . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , over in Summit , New Jersey , Unix System Labs says it is pleased with the DRA technology , though its ANDF effort is still at least a year away from release . |
| 10 | She articulates a theory of compromise between fate and free will once more at least a millennium old : in the Solomon and Saturn poem Saturn asks which will be the stronger , wyrd óe warnung , ‘ fated events or foresight ’ , and Solomon tells him that ‘ Fate is hard to alter … |
| 11 | If you 're planning a trip to TECHNIQUEST be sure to put aside at least an hour and a half . |
| 12 | Although I am convinced that the prime management problem is ‘ making it happen ’ , one has to accept that in life there is always at least an evens chance that one is going the wrong way . |
| 13 | They do it a half hour later or an hour later and if that holds , erm I think they usually , you know , it 's always at least an hour |
| 14 | There was also at least a century of crossing with Shorthorn , Hereford , Aberdeen Angus and Red Poll . |
| 15 | But Mansell is no less than thirty-nine seconds up on him , which means he has to make up at least a second a lap and preferably more . |
| 16 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 17 | Certainly Edward 's last ( and only surviving ) letter to the critic suggests that the period of mentorship had lasted for a reasonable time , probably at least a year . |
| 18 | Well I 'll book it up erm , find out at least a week before hand . |
| 19 | they 're probably pressing these out at quite a rate of knots are n't they ? |
| 20 | The Laffer curve in fact begins to flatten out at around a 45% composite tax rate . |
| 21 | That was his Sunday ritual : over to Harry 's for cards as soon as lunch was eaten , and back at exactly a quarter after six , to read the Sunday papers and then sleep off the drink . |
| 22 | He had n't got the information I was waiting for but he rang me back at about a quarter to ten . |
| 23 | This was no understatement : the problem went back at least a century to the ‘ Black Assize ’ at Oxford where ‘ all who were present died in 40 hours ; the Lord Chief Baron , the Sheriff and about 300 more ’ ( Pettifer 1939 : 17 ) . |
| 24 | Even so , original estimates that the plans would cost $150 million have already risen by 20 per cent and the finishing time been put back at least a year until 1996 . |
| 25 | If we assume that some investors within each group were " not interested " in an activity made more profitable by the construction of a canal but only in dividends or , after 1790 , in speculative profit , and that this was almost wholly true of women investors , substantially so of the clergy and of the majority of those from the professions , then it is clear that overall at least a quarter of investment in canals was drawn from a net cast unprecedentedly widely . |
| 26 | ‘ We ought to get Karen here at least a week before she leaves , ’ he said to Celia that weekend , ‘ so she knows the routine . ’ |
| 27 | Shift-change was long over ; Haminh should have returned here at least an hour ago , unless she had a lover who had n't been mentioned , who she was in the habit of spending a shift with . |
| 28 | Unfortunately at least a couple of the girls overdosed on Spanish Fly , a powerful aphrodisiac which caused violent and uncontrolled vomiting in addition to its furiously libidinous effect . |
| 29 | For the US there is still time , through the negotiations in Geneva , to display a flexible attitude and to bring about at least a reduction in the number of SS-20s , and hence to reduce the need for cruise . |
| 30 | Almost at once a telephone rang again . |