Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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1 | There has been a tendency in recent years for the amount of applied research in the earth sciences to increase , although not noticeably at the expense of the fieldwork-based areal studies . |
2 | All three are caught from the same swims , although not necessarily at the same time , and in every case there are two-tone specimens . |
3 | Since the onset in the late 1920s of severe economic difficulties in areas of coal-mining and heavy industry , there has been a progressive shift of employment opportunities towards the South , albeit not always at the same rate . |
4 | Within two days of leaving the warm winter of Hong Kong , I was standing shivering in the endless summer gales of the roaring forties on the shores of the Magellan Strait — if not obviously at the edge of any tectonic , plates , then certainly at the very edge of the world . |
5 | Conversation , so he told me , as so often at the Mansions , was about Rose Macaulay . |
6 | It has appeared on countless screens , an instantly recognisable indication of Paris , provided a backdrop for pop videos , high fashion pictures and for films as diverse as So Long at the Fair , The Lavender Hill Mob and the James Bond adventure A View to a Kill . |
7 | Only at the close of the summer did things improve at the central , though not yet at the local level . |
8 | If there is still a sizeable shortage , then further assistance is given , though not necessarily at the same rates and maturities as earlier . |