Example sentences of "[n mass] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car 's previous owner was the late cricketer , Sir George ‘ Gubby ’ Allen , and was snaffled up by Mogg for £8,000 at the recent auction of Allen 's belongings . |
| 2 | The car 's previous owner was the late cricketer , Sir George ‘ Gubby ’ Allen , and was snaffled up by Mogg for £8,000 at the recent auction of Allen 's belongings . |
| 3 | DUXFORD 's collection of historic aircraft at the Imperial War Museum ( IWM ) never stops increasing . |
| 4 | The table lists the high bids for the aircraft at the Annual Reno Warbird and Classic Aircraft Auction . |
| 5 | He was paid 700 ostmarks a month ( $385 at the official rate ) and given free lodging in a three-room flat shared with seven other Vietnamese . |
| 6 | MID WYND International Investment Trust achieved accelerated growth in the first half-year , as net asset value per share leapt by 16.3 per cent , from 280.9p at the previous year-end to 326.8p in the six months to 31 December , 1992 . |
| 7 | ‘ With an improvement of almost $142m at the pre-tax level , we have achieved a significant recovery in our operating performance at the half year . |
| 8 | Pebbles had broken the course record and brought her owner $900,000 ( £629,371 at the prevailing exchange rate ) , the greatest amount ever won by an English-trained horse in a single race . |
| 9 | If you have the choice , position your cannon at the far ends of your line to allow yourself diagonal shots across the enemy line . |
| 10 | Then he holed from 20ft at the long second and six feet at the fifth and sixth to maintain his record of not having suffered a failure in Europe since the Cannes Open two years ago . |
| 11 | After all , it was one of the aims of the quota legislation to foster an industry that could promote Britain just as American films promoted America and , with only ten British films a year grossing £100,000 at the local box office , the financiers backing British film companies began to push for expansion . |
| 12 | On Friday they met in a mosque with the men from Zliten , demanded 6000 dinars ( £11,800 at the then official exchange rate , £6500 at the going rate in the free market ) , and received assurances of payment . |
| 13 | It must be pointed out that we had already hoped to make at least £1000 at the Annual Reunion so this means a bigger and better Christmas Fayre and a rise in the cost of tickets . |
| 14 | To take an oversimplified example : if an investor buys marks at three to the pound , and the pound falls until it is valued at just two marks , every pound of the original stake will be worth £1.50 at the new rate . |
| 15 | Scottish Power today promises a modest 7% rise to £88m at the halfway stage . |
| 16 | other than in that respect it would erm it would reduce representation to mem members I would say by about forty percent at the present time before structures etcetera etcetera were sorted out . |
| 17 | So the history of train transport has partly been a history of striving for greater efficiency and lower fuel costs — one percent at the very beginning to forty percent now with diesel . |
| 18 | In 1914 she joined a member of staff of this clinic , Dr Hector Munro , in an ambulance corps at the Belgian front . |
| 19 | The winners of the Kraszna-Krausz awards for the best books on photography were presented with prizes totalling £23,000 at the British Library on 28th January . |
| 20 | Fish at the Funny Farm |
| 21 | On March 16th he froze savings in excess of 50,000 new cruzados ( $1,000 at the official rate ) and four-fifths of funds ( or 25,000 new cruzados , whichever is highest ) in overnight accounts for 18 months . |
| 22 | Punters on the Nevsky Prospekt are asked to cough up 50 roubles for a single cone , or about 50p at the official exchange rate — a luxury for people making roughly £15 a week . |
| 23 | Mr Michael Rowley , finance director , said the group had foreseen the problems and had made an effort to increase income from interest , which came in at £64,000 as against a charge of £78,000 at the halfway stage last year . |
| 24 | JACKIE ANNESLEY throws a few statistics at the royal couple along with the confetti . |
| 25 | Her freshly baked treat goes for 100 Kwanzas , about £2 at the legal exchange rate but just two pence on the open market . |
| 26 | While no radical shift in the distribution of the British people at the macro-regional scale has occurred during the present century , the settlement pattern has displayed a dynamism that has proved difficult to forecast . |
| 27 | And I think governments would do well to talk to the people at the sharp end , like magistrates , who use this system , work the system , liaise with all the various components in the system and do know what they 're talking about . |
| 28 | I feel the time is now right to respond to local bargaining initiatives , C C T and L M S , with a review of how the research department could best provide their services to the people at the sharp end . |
| 29 | This was the commission 's first visit to meet people at the sharp end of the system . |
| 30 | One or two people at the other end were snoring and once someone quite close to me shouted in his sleep : |