Example sentences of "[verb] [n mass] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This work could eventually lead to better machine vision systems and optoelectronic neural integrated circuits that would literally enable parallel computers to process data at the speed of light . |
| 2 | This work could eventually lead to better machine vision systems and optoelectronic neural integrated circuits that would literally enable parallel computers to process data at the speed of light . |
| 3 | The church cost £2,000 at the time . |
| 4 | I hope people at the back can hear , erm , we obviously took up action on the resolution passed last year , in two or three different ways . |
| 5 | JEALOUS Jerry Hall is quizzing staff at the chateau Mick Jagger bought for her — about claims he spent secret nights there with Carla Bruni . |
| 6 | During the seven months of its inclusion , ESD added £5m at the operating line , a £1½m benefit to profits after financing charges on the cash paid . |
| 7 | Everett , who had been ordered to take a rest at 98 trips , was testing aircraft at the Group Maintenance Unit when he heard that there was a spare aircraft going a-begging at his old squadron . |
| 8 | Everyone presenting data at the conference was careful to point out that they were not saying that lead is safe , even at low levels , but the ‘ do n't knows ’ do not form a powerful lobby . |
| 9 | But Mr Davies , who leaves behind a lower paid £85,000 at the commission , conceded he would have little difficulty in signing up for the business priorities agreed by the CBI 's governing council for the incoming government . |
| 10 | The concert , on April 25 at Mainsforth Community Centre , will be open to anyone over 14 and tickets will cost £2 at the door . |
| 11 | The man in his late twenties threatened staff at the Alliance and Leicester branch on High Street in Oxford.It 's not yet known how much money was taken . |
| 12 | Concrete steps are proposed to put people at the forefront of a resource-constrained environment , with due account of the profound impact of new technologies . |
| 13 | Bingo player Bob Gladstone is hoping to start his own business after scooping £3,279 at the game . |
| 14 | Alan Milburn , Labour 's prospective Parliamentary candidate for Darlington , met staff at the factory in McMullen Road . |
| 15 | You see I would like to see people at the end of this programme to have some idea , not just of fancy figures in the air , but of practical effects that will affect them on the ground . |
| 16 | When Charles James Fox lost £200,000 at the gaming tables as a young man , his father and others came to the rescue . |
| 17 | ‘ We will still have £3.5m. at the end of this year . |
| 18 | Deposits by UK residents totalled £240m at the time of the crash . |
| 19 | Inbound rate of descent is based on the assumption of reaching 0ft at the threshold . |
| 20 | Despite grossing $100m at the box office , the film , which cost $30m to make , has lost $10m . |
| 21 | Charles Saatchi is reported to have paid $2 million for a large standing male nude portrait , ‘ Two Men in the Studio ’ ( 1987–89 ) , and a decent domestic scale picture might have cost £500,000 at the peak of the market . |
| 22 | Council house rent arrears totalled £430M at the end of March 1991 , Housing Minister Sir George Young has said . |
| 23 | A strong and violent figurative picture by Karel Appel ( lot 317 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) , which would have commanded £150,000 at the peak of the market three or four years ago , sold to Waddington for £46,000 . |
| 24 | The care which bereaved Minoans sometimes lavished on their dead suggests a belief in the AFTERLIFE , and the idea of an Elysium , a pleasant Heaven awaiting people at the end of their earthly lives , is thought to have been a Minoan creation . |
| 25 | And that means he 's sure to have people at the airport ready to intercept me the moment I arrive there . ’ |
| 26 | Eat fruit at the end of a meal . |
| 27 | Halliwell was cooking haddock at the time . |
| 28 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating staff at the university of Kent and the two commercial pharmaceutical companies with whom the university is combining in a venture called ’ Viridian ’ , which is a programme of environmental biotechnology based entirely on bacteria that are naturally available ? |
| 29 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 30 | Suppose a machine has a known life of only one year and is expected to yield £450 at the end of that year . |