Example sentences of "it [vb past] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sold at a high enough price per pound to cover the cost of carrying it across the Atlantic , and Jamestown enjoyed a tobacco boom , though the increase in exports from 20,000 lb. in 1617 to 350,000 lb. in 1621 was not enough to enable the Company to show a profit , because the ( wholesale , pre-duty ) price fell from four or five shillings a pound to a shilling a pound at the same time . |
| 2 | It expanded at a rapid rate , the early ‘ Saucepan ’ sets being replaced by cheap transistor sets which could be operated with less expensive batteries . |
| 3 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
| 4 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |
| 5 | Written by Colin Sweet of the London-based Centre for Energy Studies , it appeared at a sensitive time when budget wrangling threatened to delay fusion . |
| 6 | This bias was particularly strong during our Pre-Campaign Wave in March when Prime Minister Thatcher visited Moscow but it continued at a reduced level throughout the final campaign . |