Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] at [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are looking at four possible sites . |
| 2 | New car registrations — only half a million in 1958 — jumped in 1963 to more than a million ( Today , they are running at two million . ) |
| 3 | ‘ They 're meeting at nine — we 've just got time . ’ |
| 4 | So they 're going at fifty five metres every twenty seconds , and you can imagine Peter O'Sullivan , now look at this Pip , they 're going at a , a nice steady fifty five metres every twenty seconds , what 's that in metres per second ? |
| 5 | I mean they 're going at seventy and eighty miles an hour . |
| 6 | Just as well really ; when they go into the diamond formation , the trade mark of the Red Arrows , their wings are only 10ft apart and they 're travelling at 400 mph . |
| 7 | But what would they be doing at thirty-six ? |
| 8 | When Minton became friends with her and Rodrigo , they were living at 155 Old Church Street , not far from the popular Queen 's Elm pub in the Fulham Road . |
| 9 | Whitten Brown gave in to his instincts , and since they were cruising at 20,000 feet they were definitely higher ones . |