Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 IF there was one occasion that summed up sporting attitudes in l992 , it was Carl Lewis 's bizarre attempt to set an Olympic record for the greatest number of journalists asphyxiated at a single press conference .
2 He was also a reformer and builder ; his reforms were far-reaching in administration and law while the arts flourished at a high level .
3 Each of the poems looked at a different sort of love : that of parents and children , of friends , of lovers , of God … .
4 This would make it easy to disconnect them in case there was a need to make changes , or if problems arose at a later date .
5 The first machines looked at a few dozen positions a second ; the more recent , 1200–1500 a second .
6 Subsequently , an apparently very different kind of proarrhythmic response occurred : patients died at a constant rate during the 10-month treatment period with flecainide and encainide , and the mortality paralleled the number of observed ischaemic episodes .
7 Of the remaining 12 patients one died of acute renal failure during the initial investigation and treatment and the remaining 11 patients died at a median period of four months ( range one to 18 months ) because of progressive cahexia .
8 Similarly , the clock on the front of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stood at a few minutes to midnight , but the American government did not heed it .
9 They had hardly digested the import of what they had seen when still more flames appeared at a third window .
10 Our afternoon lessons began at a quarter-to-two , and if the express did not run on time , I ran the risk of being late for roll call .
11 Meanwhile , for Stan the basic business of discovering fossils proceeded at a dazzling pace .
12 Ecstasy , Cannabis , and LSD : The drugs siezed at a LEGAL rave .
13 One of the boatmen grinned at a green-faced Maltote .
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