Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] at the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are about 20 intra-oceanic island arcs located along subduction zones at the present day , the great majority being found in the western Pacific Ocean ( Fig. 3.6 ) . |
| 2 | The vital task facing trade unions at the present time is to sell trade unionism — to convince trade union members that they belong to a beneficial , positive and essential organisation . |
| 3 | Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain . |
| 4 | A number of ancient suture zones representing previous plate collisions have been recognized but only a few of these , such as the Urals and the Appalachians formed 300 to 250 MaBP , are major relief features at the present day , most having been extensively eroded and covered by later sediments . |
| 5 | This , of course , is an issue very much apparent in the fortunes of local railway lines at the present day . |
| 6 | The predicted correlation function of temperature inhomogeneities can be expressed in terms of the power spectrum of density fluctuations as where C l is the angular power spectrum of temperature fluctuations and P ( k , ) is the power spectrum of density fluctuations at the present epoch . |