Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1970 52 per cent of the population listened at some point during the day , but only 43 per cent in 1986 . |
| 2 | My imagination faltered at this point ; but I lingered over it , returning over and over again to the discovery of my heroine 's and my own female body , and the male contemplation of it . |
| 3 | Inflation stayed at four point three per cent last month bringing a significant boost to the economy . |
| 4 | In nineteen seventy nine the grant for trade union education stood at one point six million . |
| 5 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 6 | A court equerry appeared at that point at the prince 's elbow . |
| 7 | One might be forgiven the thought that Wagner 's theoretical position had at this point compounded too many incongruities to make criticism necessary . |