Example sentences of "it [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It succeeded at a stroke in reducing tenanted land from over 45 per cent of the cultivated area to under 10 per cent . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It expanded at a rapid rate , the early ‘ Saucepan ’ sets being replaced by cheap transistor sets which could be operated with less expensive batteries . |
| 4 | June 1 : Piper L–4 Grasshopper destroyed when it crashed at a rodeo in Antioch , California . |
| 5 | It occurred at a time when abolitionist leaders hoped for improved treatment of slaves in the West Indies but had not focused on emancipation as an objective and had not specifically propagandised for it . |
| 6 | It occurred at a moment in time when reading represented the chief leisure activity , apart from sex and drinking , for the British population . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 9 | It came at a time when dislocation of the Latin American economies as a result of the First World War caused widespread unemployment and increasingly militant labour unrest . |
| 10 | It came at a time of growing interest among member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) in new sources for cheaper supplies of bananas , following the relaxation of the preferential access granted to certain African and Caribbean countries covered by the EC 's Lomé Convention agreement [ see pp. 37210-11 ] . |
| 11 | Mr Menzies said the benediction , it seemed at a deliberately dragging pace . |
| 12 | Only 1 man in 5 had planned the occasion , for 17% it was a one-night stand , for 13% it happened at a party , while 11% say they were drunk at the time . |
| 13 | It started at a diner in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania at 7am . |
| 14 | Zemek was alleged to have used funds held by Polish companies abroad to buy back some of Poland 's commercial debt on the secondary market where it traded at a fraction of face value . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The UAE was reported to have reacted in a low-key manner to the Iranian takeover , coming as it did at a time when the Gulf states were hoping for improved relations with Iran . |
| 17 | President Scalfaro on July 30 described Scotti 's action as a sign that " factional interests " had been allowed to take priority , coming as it did at a time of national crisis . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In 1979/80 the expenditure per student in polytechnics was 82 per cent of that in the universities : by 1987/88 per capita expenditure in the polytechnics had fallen to 58 per cent of the university figure and by 1989/90 it stood at a little over 50 per cent . |