Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cats ' alert : Fire caused at least £10,000 of damage to the first floor of a house in Pannal Avenue , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough last night . |
| 2 | He caused at least £67,000 in damage , Martin Rudland , prosecuting , told York Crown Court . |
| 3 | Gloucester Crown Court was told Gooch drove at over 80mph through the residential area as he tried to overtake a car driven by Anthony Gallagher . |
| 4 | Rose , in his book Do Parties Make a Difference ? , argues that " the 1974 Heath Government fulfilled at least 80% of its manifesto pledges … [ and ] the 1979 Labour Government … acted unambiguously upon 54% of its manifesto commitments and gave some evidence of action upon another 19% " . |
| 5 | This building campaign soared in the 1890s : Wesleyans , Baptists and Primitive Methodists ( there are no accurate statistics for Congregationalists ) spent at least £8,316,920 on building , equivalent to some £275,000,000 in 1990 . |
| 6 | TWO company directors spent at least £450,000 of their firm 's money to fund jetset lifestyles , an industrial tribunal was told yesterday . |
| 7 | It was estimated that sales of the detector to Otis had earned the employer over £4 million during the period 1982 to 1986 and the revenue generated by these sales represented at least 80% of the employer 's turnover . |
| 8 | Maybe it 's the fact that the Goliath retailed at around £60 with a plywood case that made its demise inevitable , even without the attentions of C.F.Martin . |
| 9 | In the conference call that followed Digital Equipment Corp 's announcement of its figures ( CI No 2,148 ) , news of which did n't reach us until after close of play on Wednesday , company executives said that their outlook for the rest of the year continues to be cautious given the current economic environment , and they declined to forecast profits : Bill Steul , chief financial officer , said that during the third quarter , DEC 's US business showed a decline of just under 5% , and that total product revenues were flat , while services grew at about 12% in the quarter ; business was a little soft in Germany and France and continues to be down in Japan , but that there are some signs of improvement in Japan ; DEC , in its final quarter of fiscal 1993 , does not expect much in revenues from its Alpha-based systems running Microsoft Corp 's new NT operating system before next fiscal . |
| 10 | We looked at how people with bulimia can perpetuate their problems by thinking about their eating habits , shape and weight in particular ways . |
| 11 | All books are described in advance in the free monthly ‘ Literary Guild Review ’ and offered at least 20% below publishers ' prices ( plus post and packing ) . |
| 12 | A check on the number of tablets returned at each visit showed that all patients took at least 70% of the tablets prescribed , and that the median ( interquartile range ) number of antacid tablets consumed per week was similar in both groups ( cisapride 2.2 ( 0.1–5.7 ) ; placebo 1.9 ( 0.3–3.6 ) : p=0.76 , Mann-Whitney U test ) . |
| 13 | Did at least 50% of those interviewed state that they would buy the products mentioned from a hypermarket if there was one in the area ? |
| 14 | Annual wage increases for manufacturing workers ran at around 20% for the three years preceding 1990 . |
| 15 | David Gilford , for instance , hits the fairway with his tee shot at least 80% of the time , Tony Johnstone gets up and down from greenside bunkers around 90% of the time and , just as remarkable , Colin Montgomerie hits 77% of greens in regulation . |
| 16 | I forwarded to him an estimate of the probable expence which I calculated at under £4000 with which sum I engaged to organize a party to keep the field for two years . |
| 17 | Having taken your bags of donated books from you at the church door last year , you may like to know that despite the awful rain this week , Christian Aid Sale funds stood at around £35K by noon today , so the total should be up on that figure . |