Example sentences of "start [noun] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He built up Dixons , with sales last year of over £1.7 billion , after starting work at the age of 16 with his father 's portrait photography business . |
| 2 | for SERC funded students , 56 per cent of conversion and 48 per cent of specialist students would be in or about to start work at the end of their courses ; |
| 3 | For those funded by SERC , 56 per cent of conversion students would be in or about to start work at the end of their courses . |
| 4 | The 363 students in or about to start work at the end of the IT Advanced Course ( 58 per cent ) were working for 192 different employing organisations ( see Appendix A ) . |
| 5 | Richard , who started work at the University in 1969 as assistant cook in the halls of residence , has been Assistant Catering Manager since 1973 , based at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , where his deputy , head cook Ian Wade has been ruling the kitchens for 24 years . |
| 6 | Harold explained that the house was empty , and at that moment a second fire engine arrived from Nidden , and started work at the side of the building where the flames seemed thickest . |
| 7 | Emma started work at the age of fourteen for the London Ladies ' Co-operative Guild , a group of professional women who designed and decorated glass tables . |
| 8 | Most of the leading Thai-Chinese business empires are still controlled by their founders , many of whom started life at the bottom and have assumed Thai names . |
| 9 | The most important development in sprint and marathon racing for some time was the introducing of starting gates at the World Sprint Championships in Paris . |
| 10 | ‘ A growing number are using the unit as a stepping stone to start courses at the college itself . ’ |
| 11 | NEC Corp 's NEC Akita Ltd subsidiary has put off production of circuit boards at a new factory in Akita prefecture , northern Japan , because of poor demand for home appliances and computers : according to Reuter , NEC Akita completed construction of the new factory at the end of 1992 , and it now hopes to start production at the plant later this year . |
| 12 | VOLUNTEER receptionists start work at the hospice next week . |
| 13 | His father died suddenly and Swindin had to leave school and start work at the age of fourteen to help support the family . |
| 14 | He had started work at the age of twelve as an apprentice electrician , wiring the houses of the rich in Liverpool before the First World War . |
| 15 | This new national body would start work at the beginning of 1982 with a two-tier structure , and a similar body would be constituted for Wales . |
| 16 | They would start construction at the rate of one a year from 1982 onwards , and they would ideally be PWRs . |