Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
| 2 | I was pleasantly surprised at how light the detector was , for when I have the free time to get out , I like to put as many hours in at a stretch as possible . |
| 3 | Erm , what happened was the cathedral council one light in at a cost of four hundred and fifty pounds but they could n't afford the second light , so we got some money from erm the residents who contributed some money , we got some money from the school and there was a shortfall of sixty six pounds thirty one pence for the total bill , so the chairman er . |
| 4 | MR JOHN Heddle , the Conservative MP for Mid Staffordshire , was found dead in his car yesterday at a chalk pit near Canterbury , Kent . |
| 5 | Kelly believe winter — allowing the results of that animal attraction to be born nine months later at a time of peak autumn plenty . |
| 6 | They 've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week . |
| 7 | Mrs Ashton , who comes from Hendon , London , is in corporate finance with a Newcastle bank and the pair met 18 months ago at a concert at Raby Castle . |
| 8 | WITH reference to the recent Echo letter about the £1 con-trick , I also had this same deed played on myself some months ago at a supermarket . |
| 9 | Several months ago at a party I asked him why he had n't written a book about his years in the Himalaya . |
| 10 | The dollar targets reflect the fact that oil trades worldwide at a dollar price : |
| 11 | Sometimes he thought that he 'd have liked nothing more than to be like Michael of the tarmac boys , gap-toothed and thick-headed and with no greater concern than that of pissing his money away at a speed roughly equal to that at which he made it , but he had to make do with the hand that he 'd been dealt — thin-skinned and solitary , one of nature 's observers . |
| 12 | Seeing the Chairman tonight at a function . ’ |
| 13 | Although it was a large fire , she had never known it have more than one bar on at a time . |
| 14 | Stalin and Molotov suddenly at a meeting of the Council of Commissars … proposed that the control figures of the plan be increased twofold … in June 1930 , Stalin suddenly announced sharp increases in the goals — for pig iron , from 10 million to 17 million tons by the last year of the plan ; for tractors , from 55,000 to 170,000 ; for other agricultural machinery and trucks , an increase of more than 100 per cent . |
| 15 | I have not said clear away , it is not the end of the lesson and some of you have not worked hard enough to make the end of the lesson now if you do n't want to make the whole poem rhyme , what you might want to do is to put two lines together at a time and have those rhyming , paired rhymes , rhyming couplets , you can do that . |
| 16 | Officers and firemen found the blazing vehicle finally at a halt , with the crew desperately trying to rescue equipment . |
| 17 | Norma , 55 , was unable to lie down for three months while her neck healed after a fall downstairs at a friend 's house . |
| 18 | THERE has never been a better time to build a dream home at a bargain price . |
| 19 | Eva had pretended she would have to do office work until after lunch on the Sunday , when in fact she had wanted to have lunch out at a cafe with a girlfriend . |
| 20 | With steelmaking they work in er two hundred and fifty tonnes roughly at a time , pour it in the basic oxygen steelmaking furnace , blow oxygen into the steel which takes about twenty minutes , then the steel with one or two other processes is basically ready to be used . |
| 21 | But I believe it is better to call a halt now at a point when the option to renew contracts has arisen . |
| 22 | But I believe it is better to call a halt now at a point when the option to renew contracts has arisen . |
| 23 | Two miles further on , he pointed out of the window again at a field of cows , saying something in his unintelligible language . |
| 24 | We are not going to push our political advantage home at a moment like this … |
| 25 | ONE OF Britain 's most powerful and modern locomotives was named The Scotsman yesterday at a ceremony in Edinburgh 's Waverley Station . |
| 26 | A MINER armed with a pistol staged a nine-hour protest sit-in yesterday at a pit threatened with closure . |
| 27 | Fears that Steffi Graf 's foot injury was worse than first thought , were allayed after the defending women 's champion put in six hours of practice at Wimbledon on Saturday then practised for two hours yesterday at a club in west London . |
| 28 | The idea that a runner can win more by not trying too hard is not likely to be well received in the hard-bitten commercial world of sports retailing , but if the winter miles are currently very wearisome and every race is a struggle to gain a few seconds , you might try leaving your watch off at a race or two and see if the Zarei approach puts a bit of the enjoyment back into running . |
| 29 | Councillors reached the decision yesterday at a meeting of the policy and resources committee . |
| 30 | Bernard remembers Changi Jail as being a very austere place where a 24-hour guard duty would involve four hours on and four hours off at a time . |