Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 2 | Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations . |
| 3 | The boat is rowed slowly round the lough whilst an angler sitting in the stern casts out at right angles . |
| 4 | It is believed to form in the central Labrador Sea by deep convection and spreads out at intermediate depths throughout most of the area north of 40°N . |
| 5 | A timer can be fitted to an immersion heater so that it comes on at specified times of the day . |
| 6 | It is a problem which comes up at various points in considering the relations between biology and human practices , and may be put in the following way : how is a phenotypic character which would present itself in other species as a behavioural tendency represented in a species which has a culture , language and conceptual thought ? |
| 7 | USPCA hits out at bogus collectors |
| 8 | A study of rock samples from the right and left of the chasm , has shown that its magnetisation switches round at regular intervals . |