Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is certain is that the corn milling firm of Reynolds and Allen were using at least part of it during the 1860s . |
| 2 | The uncertainty is illustrated by the fact that even five years ago Vodafone profits were forecast at around £40million by the end of the decade . |
| 3 | Spring 's actual goods , doubtless including his stock-in-trade , were appraised at precisely £1,800 , a further £1,400 consisting of money owed to him , £800 having been written off as ‘ desperate ’ debts . |
| 4 | It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 . |
| 5 | Amylase concentrations in saliva and oesophageal fluid were compared at both pH 7.20 and 8.20 . |
| 6 | For the subsidy of 1534 , thirty-nine noble families were assessed : their average income was said to be £921 , fifteen of them were assessed at over £1,000 and the highest income noted was £2,266 . |
| 7 | Caustic losses to drain — and hence to the river Tees with environmental consequences — were running at over £300,000 a year . |
| 8 | Whilst the laws of ritual purity were directed at both men and women , women — in order to promote practical , patriarchal socio-economic concerns — were particularly affected . |
| 9 | Unspent receipts from the sale of council houses , for example , were estimated at over £6 billion in 1987 ( Page , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | The airspace above the cells was gassed with 95% O 2 /5%CO 2 and the cells were incubated at either 37°C or 20°C . |
| 11 | Mr Vernon Malcolm , managing director of the company which supplies parts for Nissan , said most of his employees were paid at least £3.40 an hour , but he needed to be able to set his own rates of pay rather than having them imposed by government . |
| 12 | I was told that the ring was valued at approximately £100 . |
| 13 | It looks as though USL was valued at around $355m , up $30m from when they did the private placement 18 months ago . |
| 14 | When I joined the company it was capitalised at about £4m and it is now capitalised at about £1.4bn . |
| 15 | Crew exceptionally friendly and helpful , but three-course lunch for two , with a bottle of wine , was overpriced at around £45 . |
| 16 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |
| 17 | In his statement , he said he was travelling at about 55mph . |
| 18 | The income from that sale , plus a little rent for pastures rented out to other farmers , produced a pitiful income which , when the first documentary presented Hannah to an amazed public in 1973 , was running at about £5.50p a week . |
| 19 | However , concern at the unemployment total was voiced at yesterday afternoon 's Confederation of British Industry council meeting . |
| 20 | LAST time gold 's price was fixed at yesterday afternoon 's level Prince Andrew and Lady Sarah Ferguson had just announced their engagement . |
| 21 | The total cost was estimated at nearly £70,000 ( well over £2,000,000 today ) . |
| 22 | Total interest owed to all foreign creditors , which had not been paid since July 1989 , was estimated at nearly $10,000 million . |
| 23 | By 1551 the ordinary revenue was estimated at only £170,000 . |
| 24 | He was a relatively wealthy man ; his annual income , from both his publishing salary and his royalties , was approximately £4,000 , and in the early months of this year his income from the New York production of The Cocktail Party was estimated at about £570 per week : this was no doubt why , in June , he was looking for an accountant . |
| 25 | In the Western Isles it was estimated at about 16% in 1976 , or more than double the already high rate for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 26 | The cost to the Treasury of tax relief was estimated at about £60m for the year 1991–2 , while the number of people claiming relief was put at 330000 . |
| 27 | In 1982 the total stock of that investment in Africa was estimated at about $13 billion , with over half of it still concentrated in the production and export of primary commodities . |
| 28 | On the strength of these security documents the bank allowed the company 's overdraft , which was standing at about £107,000 when the documents were signed , to increase to £135,000 . |
| 29 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |