Example sentences of "[vb past] at a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subjective awareness ( a positive answer to the question ‘ Do you feel low ? ’ ) occurred at a lower blood glucose concentration than the initial adrenaline response but the threshold was identical for the two insulins ( 2.5 ( 0.1 ) mmol/l ) . |
| 2 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 3 | Er he , the family , must have came at a later date into Galashiels . |
| 4 | Lord Edmund-Davies similarly arrived at a narrower conclusion than Lord Diplock . |
| 5 | were in effect suggesting that the inner psychological motivations for racism existed at a deeper level of social reality than the socially shared norms of tolerance . |
| 6 | Marler followed at a slower pace . |
| 7 | It is probably significant that manufacturing employment fell at a slower rate in the North than in the South from 1984 to 1987 , and was estimated to have increased from 1987 to 1989 . |
| 8 | This Air-Cooled door is ‘ air-washed , ’ which means that it si kept at a lower temperature than many other cookers . |
| 9 | Their movements were deliberate and careful and Wycliffe had the impression of figures in slow motion , indeed of a whole existence that proceeded at a slower pace , muted , subdued , and infinitely depressing . |
| 10 | This proceeded at a faster pace in services than in industry . |
| 11 | Water can applied at a lower application rate in a much faster time or heavier rate if required simply by adjusting the travel speed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As many wartime evacuees found to their alarm , rural housing remained at a lower standard than that to be found in most urban areas , with only slow progress having been made in the provision of piped water , sewerage and electricity . |