Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Basically the ambient conditions in the British Isles are acceptable for goldfish at most times of the year .
2 He advanced £100 for £10 at three months .
3 For future planning the report recommended the regular collection and review of statistics at four levels :
4 They are in millions of US$ at retail prices .
5 The JCT also suggests that the form is generally suitable for contracts up to the value of £50,000 at 1981 prices , in other words , for projects which are relatively uncomplicated and small .
6 Because the bulk of the work was supervised by the owner , the overall cost is difficult to assess , but a figure of £50,000 at 1979 prices probably represents the right order of expense .
7 ‘ A full-time training officer would be desirable to organise the training of staff at all levels .
8 We constantly seek to improve the service through staff development and training programmes , introduction of new technology , and most importantly , creating a climate where the talent and commitment of staff at all levels can be utilised for the benefit of the community .
9 Some areas , particularly in the North , are very short of staff at all levels and make do with less well-trained people .
10 the demands of briefing and training of staff at all levels ;
11 For the core workers who are permanent staff again there may well be a mixture of people at all levels and here there is more emphasis on career progression and job satisfaction .
12 ‘ Probably the most important thing was being able to bring together and keep together a strong collection of people at all levels .
13 To emphasise the continuous nature of career development and the changing aspirations of people at different ages Super has proposed a division into five stages : Growth ( 0–14 years ) ; Exploration ( 15–24 years ) ; Establishment ( 25–44 ) ; Maintenance ( 45–64 years ) ; and Decline ( 65 onwards ) ( Super and Bohn , 1971 ) .
14 Even within agencies , the aims and approaches of people at different levels of the professional hierarchy are often at odds .
15 These can be manpower modelling systems which are concerned with the number and type of people at different levels in the organisation or at different stages of their careers or with some other manpower dimension .
16 I have had discussions with those people , collectively and individually , but even were the leaders prepared to make some concessions , the strongly held views of people at both ends of the spectrum are such that it would be exceedingly difficult to introduce a proposal to the House which hon. Members would accept could form the basis for coherent , workable and enforceable legislation .
17 The average age at first calving is 28 months ; the average calf weight at birth is 39kg and the growth rate 1,223g/day , giving a weight of 420kg at eleven months old .
18 It is now a matter of history that — notwithstanding an outlay of £150million at current prices on research and development and prototype trains — the technical potential of the train was never achieved and in 1983 the entire project was abandoned .
19 Above a threshold dose ( 14 Gy ) the incidence of ulcer rises rapidly to a maximum of 45% at nine days with no increase in frequency with doses above 18 Gy .
20 Among children with no detectable antibody at baseline , IPV was 2 to 14 times more likely than OPV to induce seroconversion ( type 1 , 80% vs 40% at 6 months [ p < 0.001 ] and 81% vs 14% at 9 months [ p < 0.001 ] ; type 3 , 76% vs 22% at 6 months [ p < 0.001 ] , and 67% vs 5% at 9 months [ p < 0.001 ] ) .
21 Among children with no detectable antibody at baseline , IPV was 2 to 14 times more likely than OPV to induce seroconversion ( type 1 , 80% vs 40% at 6 months [ p < 0.001 ] and 81% vs 14% at 9 months [ p < 0.001 ] ; type 3 , 76% vs 22% at 6 months [ p < 0.001 ] , and 67% vs 5% at 9 months [ p < 0.001 ] ) .
22 ‘ Their manager Carl Harris used to play professional football in the South , and he 's on first-name terms with people at bigger clubs , which Northern clubs ca n't compete with , ’ he says .
23 You have to be able to deal with people at all levels .
24 Among children with no detectable antibody at baseline , IPV was 2 to 14 times more likely than OPV to induce seroconversion ( type 1 , 80% vs 40% at 6 months [ p < 0.001 ] and 81% vs 14% at 9 months [ p < 0.001 ] ; type 3 , 76% vs 22% at 6 months [ p < 0.001 ] , and 67% vs 5% at 9 months [ p < 0.001 ] ) .
25 Among children with no detectable antibody at baseline , IPV was 2 to 14 times more likely than OPV to induce seroconversion ( type 1 , 80% vs 40% at 6 months [ p < 0.001 ] and 81% vs 14% at 9 months [ p < 0.001 ] ; type 3 , 76% vs 22% at 6 months [ p < 0.001 ] , and 67% vs 5% at 9 months [ p < 0.001 ] ) .
26 However , in presenting profit as ultimately unpaid labour , Marx suggests that if the total of goods or capital in a social system is unequally divided between people at different levels in the social-industrial hierarchy , exploitation is necessarily taking place .
27 Events are organised at national , regional and local level and cater for people at all levels of ability .
28 In recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the importance of training for staff at all levels in libraries of all kinds but apart from a circular letter sent out by The Library Association in 1976 , and two publications on the subject , one in 1977 and another in 1978 , there have been no systematic attempts to assess overall provision of training in the UK .
29 As well as a series of seminars , we have already published a comprehensive range of support materials designed for staff at all levels ( see page 4 for further details ) .
30 So when , towards the end of lunch , Stuart lurched to his feet and informed the table — why this confessional urge that comes upon people at such times ? that he was ‘ Just going to decant ’ ( and the awful phrases they come up with : from which beagling divisional manager did my chum filch that one ? ) ,
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