Example sentences of "[adv] at [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Rolling on to her back , she stared unhappily at too many clouds that raced each other across the low sky . |
2 | More than half the arable land in the United States receives annually at least 700 mm of precipitation ; only 1 per cent of the arable land in the Soviet Union receives as much moisture . |
3 | Taylor led off eight Hurricanes in V7671 , climbing to 28,000 feet , when many Ju87s were seen below at about 10,000 feet just as the A.A. barrage opened up against them . |
4 | This has resulted partly from the increased participation of married women and the ‘ coming of age ’ of the main post-war baby boom , but has of course been influenced greatly at more local level by migration . |
5 | Timely interventions by senior Army officers had already established the ‘ official view ’ that the paratroops had fired only at clearly identifiable targets , and only when they came under heavy fire from gunmen , and nail and petrol bombers ( Curtis , 1984:41–2 ) . |
6 | Farther to the northwest ( Fig. 6 ) at the Ems estuary and in the southernmost part of the German North Sea , the Rm-values decrease drastically , although the Top Carboniferous occurs only at somewhat shallower depths , in part even at significantly greater depths ( Norderney Z1 ) than on the Oldenburg Ridge . |
7 | The very similar Chukar , Rock and Red-legged Partridges , separable only at fairly close range , are aerodynamically distinct except in the Balkans ( Rock , Chukar ) . |
8 | Their importance as a model of convection has diminished , it being almost universally accepted that they are a suitable model for the original problem only at relatively uninteresting parameter values , and their claim to physical relevance now rests mainly on their connection with the Maxwell-Bloch equations for lasers , and on convection problems in specially shaped ( usually toroidal ) regions . |
9 | LAN Manager is available as an expensive add-on package for some Unix platforms which will allow NT systems to have distributed file services with Unix systems only at significantly greater cost . |
10 | So at just four years old , little Joanna was confined to hospital for two years while the operations took place . |
11 | Even if progress is slower than expected , and it may not be , nothing that has happened so far gainsays General Colin Powell 's claim after six days of fighting that the allies , unopposed in the air , are systematically dismantling Saddam Hussein 's ability to wage war , and doing so at remarkably small cost to themselves . |
12 | Her family says they can only hope that Katharine 's tragedy will help bring a change in the law , so at least other victims will benefit from her experience . |
13 | Special paints do n't have a large range of colours to choose from , so at least that choice is simplified . |
14 | So at least eight people with Down 's syndrome were disenfranchised at an early stage by their parents or their electoral registration authority . |
15 | Still , they were going to Florida and she was going to Spain , so at least this year she had something to look forward to . |
16 | Street lighting seeped into the tiny landing from an open door so at least some curtains were undrawn and he dare n't use the torch . |
17 | So at least some speakers fail to adapt these lexical items successfully to their JC form . |
18 | If you need to apply for a passport , do so at least 12 weeks before departure . |
19 | One year a thunderstorm washed out a lot of buttercup petals , so at 8am one Sunday morning , ladies were to be seen heading for the well to make running repairs before the blessing of the well took place in the afternoon . |
20 | Banks were able to acquire large time deposits with very low service costs and they were able to do so at very keen rates of interest since these were often negotiated for each individual deposit . |
21 | So at low enough temperatures , with the gate voltage , Vg , chosen to put EF in a mobility gap , all the current is in effect carried by electrons that can not be dissipatively scattered , and the resistance falls to zero . |
22 | Stakes for the lottery itself are likely to be £1 a time , with the other games costing less at about 50 pence a time . |
23 | Here the upper parts move together at only one point ; at all others they overlap . |
24 | running from care : over half the 179 youngsters who had run from care were persistent absconders and had already run away at least five times before going to the safe house . |
25 | ‘ I had n't hit the wickets for a while and I was n't going to throw it because it was a rather tense moment and it would have given away at least one run if I had missed ’ Rhodes recalled . |
26 | And anyway , I was giving away at least fifty pounds . |
27 | The average American throws away at least 12 times their body weight in domestic waste each year . |
28 | But before the Salvation Army took it over , it was a , a Borough Council property , which was leased to a f Jewish company in London , and they used to send a manager , at this lodging house and these were then let nightly at about ten pence per night . |
29 | Because larval development of H. contortus occurs optimally at relatively high temperatures , haemonchosis is primarily a disease of sheep in warm climates . |
30 | To draw unemployment benefit in an off-season a seasonal worker must show he has already had , or can reasonably expect to obtain , a substantial amount of employment during the current off-season — normally at least one quarter of that period . |