Example sentences of "at [adv] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the population due to stabilise at merely twice the current numbers , there would appear to be little cause for concern on a global level . |
| 2 | BBC2 settled down with about 10 per cent of the total TV audience and heavily subsidized by BBC1 , which had four times the viewers at only twice the cost . |
| 3 | This year 's show takes place on Saturday 31 August between 2 and 4.30pm , but do n't hang about — at 6pm sharp the Over 60 's Karate and Flower Arranging Class takes over , or so I 'm told . |
| 4 | And in section 5.2 we look in more detail at just how the Bank operates in short-term money markets in order to influence interest rates and the rate of monetary growth . |
| 5 | Some burning sun , black clouds , rain and wind were the backdrop to another highly agreeable fortnight in Paris at just about the perfect time of year . |
| 6 | At just about the same time , a cigar-gnawing chief executive thousands of miles away was shredding his meticulously planned TV schedules to find a slot for a homely Australian series which was to become one of the all time surprise hits , turning many of its stars into instant celebrities . |
| 7 | Another group , the crustaceans , appeared at just about the same time . |
| 8 | " Psycho-anthropology " , a stepchild of anthropology and psychology , emerged as a sub-discipline at just about the same time that its purest source data — the least-contacted tribal peoples — were vanishing into extinction . |
| 9 | Theseus is shown again at just about the same time , lifting Antiope into his chariot , an over life-size group from a pediment ( fig. 65 ) . |
| 10 | And conditions were still at just about the same , but it had been an old hotel , so all the rooms at the top were left just as the bedrooms would have been , so you went up and down steps , and along corridors . |
| 11 | Told me that at just about the same age , he did the same thing to try and impress the then girl in in the office . |
| 12 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 13 | His departure for Australia came at just about the right time . |
| 14 | In this way theory encompasses at once both the broad generalizations which lead the researcher on to further enquiries and the precise statements of interrelationships which help tidy up some of the loose ends of understanding . |
| 15 | It is understandable , therefore , why they should also believe that this harsh and exploitative system a fact noted not just by Marxists but also by social reformers like Dickens , Rowntree , William Booth , the Webbs and Edwin Chadwick at the time would ultimately be questioned by the class of people who were at once both the most numerous and the most exploited by this mode of production . |
| 16 | She told officers she threw her baby into the river at about 7.30pm the same day . |
| 17 | Her husband Adrian , a mental nurse , called the midwife from time to time and at about 7.30pm the midwife told the registrar . |
| 18 | The victim had been put into the lower of two bunk-beds at about 9pm the night before by his father , Mr Alan Robinson , 52 . |
| 19 | WHILE the recession has reduced many families ' incomes , school fees have continued to rise at about twice the rate of inflation . |
| 20 | This allows him to grow cells at about twice the number per unit volume that will survive in tissue culture — and at just below the density at which they begin to die , poisoned by their own wastes . |
| 21 | We waved them off at about 8.45am the following morning , after having a thoroughly enjoyable weekend . |
| 22 | and erm er , we , and that there are various other erm we ways in which the parties should be protected , erm , which I have n't had a chance to look at today clearly the costs of investigating , the proper costs of investigating any structured settlement would have to be dealt with on a later occasion , that it is somehow awarded , instead of protected that the plaintiff gives the defendant notice , seven day 's notice before instructing any account on to advise on the structured settlement , so if the defendant thinks the plaintiff is being wholly unreasonable they can come back to court , quite at liberty to apply and get , make his point of the directions on the therefore within these context these are the sort of orders which , on the behalf of the plaintiff I can see and I would respectively suggest that we go away , draw them up and hand them in toy our Lordship and come back later in the day if we have difficult |
| 23 | In 1982 , British wave power studies using the " Salter 's duck " energy device mistakenly estimated the cost of electricity generation at around twice the likely figure . |
| 24 | With all the technological genius that can be raised in the USA to produce a B-1 supersonic bomber , they had to settle for a cruising speed of 1.25 times the speed of sound while the routine Concorde bus service across the Atlantic ticks over steadily at fully twice the speed of sound — and anyone who can afford to buy a ticket can experience it . |
| 25 | At precisely 3pm the bride will appear . |
| 26 | And the telephone number I remember to this day , was Porthmadog so that shows it was at least probably the telephone to go into being in Porthmadog . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , at least here the cells have doors . |
| 28 | The other is at least partly the result of what history did to the Greeks between 1453 and 1821 , the centuries of Ottoman rule when ‘ government ’ meant something alien . |
| 29 | In the seventeenth century at least both the Dutch republic and Sweden could claim to rank as great powers in their own right . |
| 30 | They might rightly decide that ‘ at least temporarily the size of their families should not be increased ’ ( Gaudium et Spes 51 ) . |