Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Approximately 100 US soldiers , in Aden since mid-December under a bilateral agreement to provide facilities in support of " Operation Restore Hope " in Somalia [ see p. 39225 ] , were withdrawn on Dec. 31 after bombs exploded at two Aden hotels on Dec. 29 . |
| 2 | The Hong Kong government fears the market may be thinking the same way : in late April it announced legislation to formalise the power of local banks to pay negative interest rates on Hong Kong dollar deposits ( just as Swiss banks did at one time when the Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money into the Swiss franc ) . |
| 3 | Expectations had at one time run high , but a parallel case of offence by weakness emerged from the accounts of the home . |
| 4 | It was apparent as the light grew that the rocks which lay scattered among the trees had at one time been arranged in order . |
| 5 | Overall , the annual sales of the top performers grew at 4.5 times the rate of the underperformers ; their returns on those sales were 2.5 times higher . |
| 6 | Explosions occurred at seven Istanbul banks on Oct. 24 . |
| 7 | There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper . |
| 8 | A fine tower with stepped windows stood at one end . |
| 9 | Many of the country 's senior religious leaders sat at one time or other in the shade of its trees and listened to the Ayatollah Khomeini 's lectures on the intricacies of Islamic law . |
| 10 | It takes the form of two parallel fluorescent tubes bridged at one end . |
| 11 | While he is speaking about child deaths , will he confirm that if vehicles travelled at 20 mph , only one child in 20 would be killed ? |
| 12 | Excuse me , do wo n't the schoolchildren asked at one stage |
| 13 | Hoskyns shares closed at 458 pence on Friday . |