Example sentences of "of [pron] at [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At a launch of a new diagnostic technique the Chief Executive of a hi-tech company in the medical field seeks your advice on two public relations programmes : I Aimed at his own company 's staff : 230 of them at two factories 65 miles apart and at an R and D facility with 38 senior staff .
2 He had an alley mate , the man on the next machine , who pulled the levers for both of them at one end while William 's grandad pulled for them both at the other .
3 There were five of them at one table and they were the only ones still outside .
4 At the target range in Van Nuys , a lower middle-class white suburb in the Valley , north of Central Los Angeles , I saw a dozen people line up early in the morning to take target practice with hand-guns , shooting at targets shaped like men — most of them at 25 paces : ‘ the most common range for street warfare , ’ as one man there put it .
5 Batty went head first over the top of somebody at one point , thereby earing the rage of the City crowd .
6 One of the most widespread language families in Siberia was that now known as Samoed , the speakers of which at one time occupied a large part of southern Siberia from the Irtysh to the Yenisei , including the Altal-Sayan mountain region .
7 's father was master of her at one stage .
8 Hoomey could n't think of him at four pounds .
9 Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry .
10 I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’
11 Even from her high perch , Ace could n't see all of it at one glance .
12 Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands .
13 This is an absolute treasure house for any editor or writer unsure of a common foreign phrase , an abbreviation , or the spelling of a tricky name — which means all of us at one time or another .
14 Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 .
15 The main need , however , is to bring the two sides somehow together , since all of us at one time or another need help from both of them .
16 But we could n't eat all the curry it was very , both of us at one time , we could have scoffed the lot !
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