Example sentences of "and at an [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Their thirteen examples are still flying safely and reliably and at an operating profit , and unless and until a new design is embarked upon ( undoubtedly requiring massive joint international investment ) then Concorde will almost certainly be the only way civilian passengers can travel at twice the speed of sound until well into the next century .
2 The caterers need to know numbers in time to plan , and at an event like the Reunion with various groups it is important to know the balance — this year one class had only 22 people , while others were ‘ climbing up the walls ’ ( because two teachers with tickers in Group F had failed to let us know that the tickets were not sold ) .
3 He lay head towards the door and at an angle of forty-five degrees from the bed , his shoes touching the end .
4 Its Pyrenean valley is known as the most fertile of all , thanks to the kindly work of the local glacier , which laid down its moraine to a depth and at an angle that produced grasslands of great repute .
5 She indicated a brocaded chair placed opposite to hers , and at an angle .
6 they mentioned he had an excellent game — and from the goals showed the scot goalkeeper could have done much better on two of the italian goals … specially the first one — a flat shot from far out and at an angle too .
7 After three miles and at an altitude of 1200 feet , the walls end at a gateway , and here cars must be parked .
8 Flying at 2,000mph and at an altitude of 80,000ft crews often saw more of the world in one day than most people see in their lifetime .
9 He gazed in unwilling fascination at the blazing , smoking plane , now directly abeam and at an altitude of under a thousand feet .
10 Criticism of the current government , expressed publicly in the newspaper of the ruling Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party ( SRSP ) and at an SRSP central committee meeting on Jan. 8 , led the country 's President ( and SRSP secretary-general ) , Maj.-Gen.
11 To the Editor of The Times , 18 December 1990 : Sir , You said in your leader of 14 December , ‘ the highly political decision to enter the European exchange rate mechanism last October and at an exchange rate of DM2.95 to the pound looked like a mistake at the time .
12 He 'd hold his ground ; he was higher up than him and at an advantage .
13 other experiments will look at the effects of further rises in reactor temperature and at an effect known as rod ‘ candling . ’
14 Separation of training In contrast to the government 's approach to school planning and management in 1990 , a report six years earlier aimed its message at heads and at an LEA .
15 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 .
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