Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the low [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just a little liaising at the lower levels . ’ |
| 2 | Their skin was a mouldy grey , while gravity had gathered their uncirculating blood at the lowest points — under the chin , the undersides of the limbs , and around the area of the lower ribs , buttocks and kidneys . |
| 3 | On the lower parts of the marsh , which are most frequently covered by the tide , accretion at the rate of almost 1 cm per year has been recorded at Scolt Head Island , while at higher levels , where the frequency of flooding by the tide is less , this is reduced to one half or less of the rate at the lowest levels . |
| 4 | The rate at the lower earnings limit of £43 a week is reduced from 5 to 2 per cent . |
| 5 | If all goes according to plan , the £60 million investment will produce around 300,000 tonnes per year of ammonia at the lowest costs in Western Europe . |
| 6 | A ham came next ; after some frenzied bidding at the lower prices it climbed to thirteen guineas , then to fourteen where it seemed likely to stay until at the very last moment , a cautious male voice offered fifteen guineas . |
| 7 | He may seek to clean up military malpractice at the lower levels of command , while not jolting the top too much . |
| 8 | Because All Saints and St Barnabas has a broadly symmetrical plan and it is therefore logical to dispose dwellings to either side of a spinal corridor , the church has been converted in accordance with this principle at the lowest levels where the cross-section is widest ( Fig 47 ) . |
| 9 | Lorne Boswell , Scottish secretary of the actors ' union , Equity , said there was alarm at the low levels of grant for theatre companies . |
| 10 | American dominance of the top weights has unduly obscured the vitality of our own fighting tradition at the lower divisions . |
| 11 | The extension of the LFA has left this gross anomaly unaffected since it brings in land at the lower elevations outside the original LFA boundary . |
| 12 | The crucial difference between a social democratic view of the state and the one taken here , is that we recognise that the bureaucracy itself is political in the course of exercising its executive powers , particularly in the realm of policy-making at the upper levels and in implementation at the lower levels . |