Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Red light ’ girls offered massages for £25 and full sex for £60 at the Eclipse Health Club just yards from the cops ' Blue Lamp bar , Cardiff Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 2 | He sent a copy to Hall , with a request to sell it for sixpence at the exhibition . |
| 3 | Rain snatched an early chance to say goodnight and Ayling walked with her to the foot of the stairs , asking after people at the Post and showing every wish to go on talking . |
| 4 | When Farries fought Benny Lynch for £5 at the Eldorado at Leith , the two Glaswegians cheerfully came home together on the train . |
| 5 | To illustrate this , let us consider three hypothetical firms A , B , and C. The assets that comprise firm A have a 10% chance of producing a cash inflow of £1,000 at the end of a given time period and a 90% chance of producing cash flows of zero . |
| 6 | Wire wool takes on a new meaning when you see Sophie Ryder 's flock of sheep at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park . |
| 7 | It made a profit of $247m at the operating level , but did only $500m of business with the outside world , lagging far behind the leaders in the OEM disk business . |
| 8 | The warrants will have an exercise price of £1 at the end of their nine-year life . |
| 9 | A hundred and ninety four jobs are to go at Smiths Industries : the company says cuts in production of aircraft at the Boeing factories in America are to blame . |
| 10 | Then as we got older , about 16 or 17 , we used to give a couple of bob at the end of the week to keep all our shoes . |
| 11 | The research was conducted through the collection of data at the conclusion of an investigation or once a referral had been dealt with and closed via other action . |
| 12 | Other centrally sponsored events , including a Film Premier and the Battle of Britain Ball , raised substantial sums for the Appeal and the Association 's links with the Rugby League led directly to a donation to the Appeal by the League of £10,000 at the Rugby League 1990 Challenge Cup Final at Wembley . |
| 13 | Although British cattle remained large for a while , they gradually reduced to an average height of 125cm at the withers by 2600 BC and by 300 BC , in the Iron Age , they were considerably smaller , averaging only 105cm . |
| 14 | For instance , at Prudential Assurance , the taxable disturbance allowance of £1724 is paid in two equal instalments ; employees receive one payment of £862 at the time of their transfer and the balance one year later . |
| 15 | He twisted in the saddle to see a column of infantry at the crossroads of Quatre Bras . |
| 16 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom last year failed to make enough operating profit to offset losses by its sister units , according to yesterday 's edition of Focus magazine : the weekly reckons that Telekom 's 1992 profit totalled about $4,065m and after transferring $3,125m to the government , it was left with only $935m to offset losses of $1,685m at the Deutsche Bundespost Postdienst postal service and $185m at the Deutsche Bundespost Postbank savings bank . |
| 17 | Based on an earlier estimate of £70,000 for computerised support of approximately 20,000 files in another department ( without networking costs ) , a similar system for the Highways and Planning departments , allowing for some economy of scale , could have cost in excess of £150,000 at the prices that were then current . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ It is the case that landings of fish have been good recently and that has depressed the price of fish at the market . |
| 19 | He is Warden of Wadham College , Oxford , and sometime Professor of Statistics at the LSE . |
| 20 | For good measure , up popped Mr Peter Stibbard , Director of Statistics at the Department of Employment . |
| 21 | The male guppy , a small South American fish , has a pair of fins on his underside modified into a gun-like tube through which he fires small bullets of sperm at the female 's genital opening . |
| 22 | In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all . |
| 23 | Regulation Investigators : Dr G R Baldwin , Dr P W J Bartrip , P Fenn , Dr K O Hawkins , H Genn , Dr B M Hutter , Dr S M A Lloyd-Bostock , Dr P K Manning , Dr C G Veljanovski Research into regulation is a major concern of staff at the Centre and is now the largest grouping of projects . |
| 24 | A member of staff at the centre , who asked not to be named , said : ‘ If there were another six beds here we could fill them without any help from outside . ’ |
| 25 | As outlined in Chapter 1 , LEAs will still be the employers of school staff ; governors of schools with delegated budgets , however , will now have control over setting the total number of staff at the school ; appointing and dismissing staff ; setting certain elements of pay and working conditions ; and controlling disciplinary and grievance procedures . |
| 26 | Some members of staff at the school felt that it had suffered and was still suffering from the effects of the reorganization . |
| 27 | In ‘ MI ’ No.14 Dr. Langellier , the author of numerous publications related to the Old West and US Army history and currently a senior member of staff at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in Los Angeles , published an illustrated summary of the important developments in US Army infantry field uniforms which coincided with the Spanish-American War . |
| 28 | They said that shortage of staff at the HSE meant that all the officers working on implementing the advisory committee 's proposals , which were published in October 1979 , were switched in 1980 to work on the EEC scheme . |
| 29 | Many are now in the caring hands of staff at the Battersea Dogs Home in London , but they still have to find a permanent home . |
| 30 | The naming did not cause any lasting embarrassment to either side , and the same friendly rivalry and relationship between the two schools continues , it not being unknown for pupils at the one to go on to become members of staff at the other . |