Example sentences of "[noun] at a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 2 | But already one thing was clear : the heat could not simply be due to deuterium dd fusion as this process should produce neutrons at a rate a billion times larger than they were recording . |
| 3 | He had sent the young sports-car-driver to ring for the police and ambulance at a phone-box a mile or so back . |
| 4 | At the time the thought never entered our heads that there could be any doubt about this , and it is certain that the effect on morale throughout the country was tremendous , especially as for months at a time the war news from other parts of the world was usually bad . |
| 5 | It was always considered necessary for a man to shoulder the main burden of work at a farm the size of ours , and I suppose the main reason why the place is a bit run down these days is because there was no man left to take over when Uncle died . |
| 6 | What distinguishes curved space–time from flat space–time is this : the frame in free fall at x differs from the frame in free fall at an event a small distance away , at . |
| 7 | The reason for this is that sperm production takes place at a temperature a couple of degrees lower than body temperature , so the process has to take place outside the body to function properly . |
| 8 | It then eats dry instead of green grass if that is a necessity and when snow covers the landscape for many days at a time the rabbit has its own solution . |
| 9 | He was preaching that evening at a chapel a couple of miles beyond Burford . |
| 10 | The Trinidadian added 46 with fellow left-hander Arthurton at a run a minute before Donald transported the latter 's off stump with a beauty pitching on leg , and then Lara became victim to circumstance , or poetic justice , given out caught for 64 off a ball that appeared to brush the pad . |
| 11 | She saw women , old gnarled Italian housewives , who did not care about popularity , who were quite composed in the face of sour looks , getting fruit and vegetables and even meat at a quarter the price paid by her affable husband and she resolved to become one of these women . |
| 12 | In market terms , the key question is whether knackers will be in a financial position to pass on the renderers ' costs to farmers at a cost the farming community finds acceptable before they are forced out of business . |
| 13 | one grain at a time the whole Sahara ; |
| 14 | Also the Transport Authority was expressly empowered to require the Executive to provide a service at a cost the Executive considered to be too high , so long as the Transport Authority provided the necessary additional cost . |
| 15 | Certainly er the higher up the the kind of er organisation at a university the tendency is to is to wear different things . |
| 16 | A ridge , perhaps the roots of an ancient wall , crossed the glade at an angle-to the trunk , running under it . |
| 17 | Clwyd councillors will consider the issue this week and director of architecture , planning and estates , Phillip Eyton Jones , says councillors should offer the new lease at a rent the property sub committee thinks fit . |
| 18 | ‘ I come twice a week at a pound a time , so that 's thirteen , say , and then there 's all the times I 've come with me cans . |
| 19 | ‘ And I 'm offering you the job as manager at a pound a week more than your present salary . ’ |
| 20 | Determine the force upon a point charge placed inside a conducting sphere at a distance a from the centre of the sphere . |
| 21 | For ten years she worked the streets — you know , giving head and hand at a dollar a dick . |
| 22 | This was not just a matter of helping a company and a colony in trouble ; imports were easy to tax , governments found that luxury products were particularly satisfying because their sales were not depressed by high import duties , and tobacco paid duty at a shilling a pound or about 100 per cent of the wholesale price . |
| 23 | We have to produce food at a price the consumer is prepared to pay . |
| 24 | By sailing the board at an angle the leeward rail digs in providing more sideways resistance . |
| 25 | One process known as ‘ NOx Out ’ uses urea and achieves up to 80 per cent reduction at a quarter the cost of SCR . |
| 26 | The culmination of the invasion was a mighty battle against an alliance of Caledonian tribes under Calgacus at a place the historian called Mons Graupius . |
| 27 | But on the other hand they 're making a little bit at a pound a pint . |
| 28 | If anyone was going to make the step from player to puppet master at a club the size of Tottenham , then it was Venables . |
| 29 | The nuclear lobby 's case is based on the UK 's commitment to stabilising carbon dioxide emissions by the end of the century at a level no higher than in 1990 . |
| 30 | Nevertheless on 20 December 1988 the petitioner instituted these present proceedings against the respondents claiming damages and alleging breach of fiduciary duty in selling to the petitioner at an undervalue the shares in Clearwater . |