Example sentences of "[verb] at [adv] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems its very high speeds are only achieved occasionally , when pursuing food or escaping , and it normally cruises at about a third or a half of its rapid dashes . |
| 2 | So I mean think about it as long term planning , and certainly for those under er sixty the long term becomes extremely long term because er you know you 're looking at perhaps a third of your life er which is er still to be accounted for . |
| 3 | Without submarine work , Rosyth would run at only a third of capacity for its MoD work . ’ |
| 4 | They said 1990 would be fairly gloomy , with little increase in the number of houses being sold ( currently sales are running at about a third of the level of the last few years ) and no movement in prices throughout the UK . |
| 5 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 6 | Yet it also represented at least a first step towards an institutional framework for dialogue between State and commoners . |
| 7 | This fact , coupled to our urgent need to export at least a third of our gross national product , simply to maintain ourselves , points to an obvious answer to our problems , for service industries and export together , suggests leisure and tourism . |
| 8 | You should save at least a third on the cost of an equivalent conventionally built house . |
| 9 | And one of the things that we do need to look at is , that is almost every salesman that I 've ever measured and almost every bit of research I 've ever seen , suggested that every salesman in the world , spends at least a third of his time driving about in his car . |
| 10 | Thus just one granule absorbs at least a 500th of a drop . |
| 11 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , several of the experimental novelists mentioned above actually began their careers in the 1930s ; Samuel Beckett , Lawrence Durrell , Malcolm Lowry , Flann O'Brien and Jean Rhys each having published at least a first novel by the time Finnegans Wake appeared in 1939 . |