Example sentences of "at [adv] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 7.00am the next morning I drove across London in shock and second gear . |
| 2 | At 5am the next day , doctors had awoken Mr Taylor and his wife Joanne to tell them their son had had a heart attack and suffered severe brain damage . |
| 3 | We were therefore very disappointed when Ms de Jonghe found she had to cancel everything at practically the last minute . |
| 4 | Duly recovered from their exploits the two aeronauts made a more leisurely departure for Birmingham , in a chaise and four , at 3.00am the next morning . |
| 5 | At 11am the first proclamation is made under an ancient oak on the green ; this is repeated at a further four traditional places in the village . |
| 6 | I believe the world cricket authorities have got their act right by bringing in South Africa into the World Cup at virtually the eleventh hour and the IRB should not be stuck in the mud . |
| 7 | car park at 4.45pm and 7.45pm on 25 February and at 4.45pm the next day . |
| 8 | The idea that there was a golden age of family obligations in the past was born out of a desire to ensure that increasing numbers of elderly people ( and other dependent groups ) in the population did not become too heavy a burden financially upon the wealthier classes ; hence the anxieties about whether working-class people had an adequate sense of ‘ filial affection ’ , which can be documented from at least the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Although industrialization has tended to eliminate traditional crafts , the non-agricultural element of the rural economy has increased in importance since at least the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Such reclining figures , clasping either a cornucopia or an urn ( and sometimes both ) , date back to at least the mid-sixteenth century ( for example at the Villa Lante at Bagnaia in Italy ) and were a commonplace in late seventeenth-century Baroque gardens ( for example at Vaux-le-Vicomte , Versailles and Het Loo ) . |
| 11 | By the time of the French revolution three main classes of diplomat were generally recognised : the ambassador , with or without the title of " extraordinary " ; the envoy or envoy extraordinary , often with the additional designation of " minister plenipotentiary " ; and the resident , or now more commonly minister resident ( the term " minister " as a somewhat vague diplomatic title went back to at least the mid-sixteenth century ) . |
| 12 | It dates back to at least the fifth century BC and is still carried out today at the roadside in parts of Asia . |
| 13 | ABOVE : Lodgemore Mill has been in use since at least the 12th century and is still in use for cloth manufacture . |
| 14 | The historical year , now in general use in England for all everyday purposes and many official and ecclesiastical , begins on 1 January , and thus coincides with the Roman civil year which was widely used until at least the seventh century . |
| 15 | in Trafalgar Square , central London ; a church has stood on this site since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 16 | Such an orientation to problem-solving has been a distinctive feature of English political culture for many centuries , discernible , I would suggest , since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 17 | Further , the fact that there has been such a steep rise in the number of divorces , combined with a fairly high rate of remarriage , means that a rising proportion of all marriages are of people marrying for at least the second time . |
| 18 | Most ancient silver was extracted from argentiferous ( silver-rich ) lead by cupellation , a process dating back to at least the second millennium BC , which involved oxidising the lead to molten litharge ( lead oxide ) , leaving the relatively unreactive silver as the metal . |
| 19 | For a time , Freames was used for the manufacture of chemicals and later became known as Crystal Fountain Mill , then for the production of shoddy and mattress stuffing up to at least the Second World War . |
| 20 | The poor or null stabilizing effect of GpU indicated that , as it had been shown for the E.coli rrnB P 1 promoter ( 8 ) , the appearance of a complex stable to heparin challenge requires the formation of at least the first phosphodiester bond . |
| 21 | Probably a majority would recommend treatment of the female sexual partner(s) with at least the first attack of NSU , but , as with gonorrhoea where up to one third of female gonorrhoea contacts can be shown not to have the disease , such a policy of treatment without diagnosis is bound to lead to a certain amount of overtreatment . |
| 22 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
| 23 | Those currencies which currently belong to the exchange rate mechanism and are not perceived by the markets as likely to join at least the first echelon of a single currency may come under pressure in the market . |
| 24 | It appears that Vicini will recall Donadoni ( back from injury ) for at least the first half at Wembley . |
| 25 | Through at least the first half of Gravity 's Rainbow , Pynchon follows a method of pursuing multiple plot-lines around and across Slothrop 's search . |
| 26 | It was performance that drew applause from a press corps relieved to be approaching the end of at least the first election campaign this year , and brought smiles to previously glum ministerial faces . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is the implications of the changing age structure of the population of pensionable age and the likelihood of a continuation of that trend into at least the first decade of the twenty-first century which have been the chief concern of social planners and welfare economists , rather than the proportion of the total population entitled to draw retirement pensions . |
| 28 | The sail effect of wind on the top foliage therefore concentrates stress at the top tie and in the vulnerable buds , which will be weak anyway for at least the first year or two . |
| 29 | Biological anthropology in the present context considers infants and their care within an evolutionary perspective , arguing that over the millions of years it has taken for humans to evolve , infant-parent contact was likely to have been virtually constant for at least the first year of life . |
| 30 | Therefore for at least the first year of Council Tax I have included a separate section to deal exclusively with Poll Tax residue issues , although in practice many of these posts will need to be filled by temporary secondments back from Council Tax structures , staff unsuccessful in obtaining permanent positions initially within the Council Tax structure and temporary staff . |