Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The boat is rowed slowly round the lough whilst an angler sitting in the stern casts out at right angles . |
| 5 | The magic rubs off at many removes . |
| 6 | That way , your 30 days terms will mean 30 days instead of meaning anything from 30 to 60 days ( which averages out at 45 days or 50 per cent more days than 30 days ) . |
| 7 | At birth , the heart races along at 140 beats a minute , but by the time we reach adulthood the rate has dropped to 70 beats a minute . |
| 8 | A veteran of Vietnam and Korea , it weighs in at fifteen tons and guzzles a hundred and fifty gallons of fuel an hour . |
| 9 | The shortest song , the funky and inviting ‘ I Want You ’ , weighs in at four minutes , seconds . |
| 10 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 11 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The chip set continuously digitises the signal as it flows in at 25 frames per second ( or 30 frames per second if it is NTSC ) and passes the data to another chip set ( in reality , a complete microprocessor in itself ) which enables the digitised signal to be manipulated . |
| 14 | A timer can be fitted to an immersion heater so that it comes on at specified times of the day . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Their recording time works out at three years per album . |
| 17 | This works out at 1,460 rupees a year for a rickshaw worth just 2,000 , so he could have bought ten rickshaws with the money he has given the owner over the last 15 years . |
| 18 | Child hits out at all visitors who come to the house . |
| 19 | USPCA hits out at bogus collectors |
| 20 | A study of rock samples from the right and left of the chasm , has shown that its magnetisation switches round at regular intervals . |