Example sentences of "[vb -s] at [num] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Unlike the stress at right angles to the crack surfaces which is mapped in Figure 3 , this tension starts at zero at the crack tip and increases as we move forward away from it .
2 A debate that starts at 3.30 in the afternoon and goes on until 2 o'clock in the morning is hardly an advert for open government .
3 This group meets at six in the morning .
4 The boy with the vacant chair then winks at one of the girls who then tries to get to the other boy without her partner noticing .
5 The photographic sitting ends at 4.30 in the morning with Lagerfeld in very good humour , having taken portraits of virtually everyone in the studio for a forthcoming photographic book , as well as all the publicity pictures for the collection .
6 He said a Labour survey of household contents insurance costs at nine of the top British firms showed the average family would be paying a 19pc increase this year alone .
7 I wo n't offer to meet the ferry — it docks at eight in the morning — but I 'll arrange transport for him to the cottage .
8 The finale he takes at one of the fastest speeds on record ( 1'08 ’ ) , creating , without recourse to pedal haze and with only the slightest dynamic gradations within Chopin 's requested sotto voce e legato , as haunting an impression of the eerie intangibility of eddying ‘ wind over graves ’ as you could ever hope to hear from human fingers .
9 They call you out to snowswept motorway verges at four in the morning , talk to you through a quarter-inch crack in the window and drive off when you 've finished , without a word .
10 ‘ The next train leaves at six for the eight o'clock ferry .
11 It leaves at six in the morning , and they want you on board soon after half past five .
12 Costa del Sol , the flight leaves at three on the Saturday . ’
13 The two α-truncated polymerases do not show the same extent of protection in the extreme upstream part of the footprint ; the protection actually stops at -39.5 on the upper strand ( Fig. 2a , lanes 5 and 7 ) and at -43.5 on the lower strand ( Fig. 2b , lanes 5 and 7 ) with no further modification downstream .
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