Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] stand at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | North of the Border , a balance between those architects expecting a rise and those expecting a fall in workloads in the next six months stands at a dismal minus 19 per cent . |
2 | During a trade dispute in 1960 , a police officer found two pickets standing at the front entrance of a factory , four standing at the back entrance and ten or twelve outside the back entrance . |
3 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
4 | When they reached it , they spied two men standing at the ready as they had expected : the passage through the palisade over the water was always manned by a guard or two . |
5 | Three days ago on our way up here we passed a field with two horses standing at a five-bar gate . |