Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were immensely hairy , had breasts that hung down at least a yard and were used by the males as beasts of burden . |
| 2 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 3 | Start filling them in at least a week before you embark on the diet , so that you have a ‘ base-line ’ from which to judge the effect of the diet . |
| 4 | Yet such an assessment ignores the independent forces at work in the interwar years which caused economic performance to fall well below economic potential ; it also fails to take into account the record of poor growth over at least a quarter-century before 1914 . |
| 5 | But Mansell is no less than thirty-nine seconds up on him , which means he has to make up at least a second a lap and preferably more . |
| 6 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 7 | Well I 'll book it up erm , find out at least a week before hand . |
| 8 | they 're probably pressing these out at quite a rate of knots are n't they ? |
| 9 | The Laffer curve in fact begins to flatten out at around a 45% composite tax rate . |
| 10 | That was his Sunday ritual : over to Harry 's for cards as soon as lunch was eaten , and back at exactly a quarter after six , to read the Sunday papers and then sleep off the drink . |
| 11 | He had n't got the information I was waiting for but he rang me back at about a quarter to ten . |
| 12 | This was no understatement : the problem went back at least a century to the ‘ Black Assize ’ at Oxford where ‘ all who were present died in 40 hours ; the Lord Chief Baron , the Sheriff and about 300 more ’ ( Pettifer 1939 : 17 ) . |
| 13 | Even so , original estimates that the plans would cost $150 million have already risen by 20 per cent and the finishing time been put back at least a year until 1996 . |
| 14 | For the US there is still time , through the negotiations in Geneva , to display a flexible attitude and to bring about at least a reduction in the number of SS-20s , and hence to reduce the need for cruise . |
| 15 | Other symptoms were deemed to be present if they occurred on at least a quarter of the days or occasions , except that passage of mucus was taken as a symptom if it had ever occurred ( this being normal clinical practice ) . |