Example sentences of "at [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eleven a child might transfer to a grammar or central ( technical trade ) school or remain in a ‘ reorganised secondary school ’ . |
| 2 | At 2.40 a motorbike rider appeared on Gresham Street , parked outside the PKB building and the rider disappeared inside . |
| 3 | Gray … sells cypresses in pots at half a crown apiece ; you turn them out of the pot with all their mould , and they never fail . ’ |
| 4 | At half a carat , sixteen thousand stones . |
| 5 | At one moment I was a novice working in the laundry , at another I was a university student , at another a young teacher , at another a friend , at another an enemy . |
| 6 | For the next two years after that , it increased at 2s a year , and during the seventh and last year of apprenticeship it moved more quickly , so that at the end of the seventh year , the by now 21-year-old man could be earning more than double his wage of a year before . |
| 7 | What you should bear in mind of course , is that in the space of a month I probably look at this a couple of thousand times . |
| 8 | The papers were sold off quarterly ; " Punch " at I Id a copy and " The London Times " at 5/3 a quarter . |
| 9 | According to the report , the world 's population was growing at 250,000 a day . |
| 10 | This meant that on average a girl would have to obtain higher examination marks than a boy to secure a place at such a school . |
| 11 | Should I part with it at such a price , the weavers would rise upon the very shop . |
| 12 | The loyalty of the nobles , as indeed of the people generally , had already been tested by the humiliating treaty of Northampton in 1328 , by which Mortimer and Isabella bought peace with Scotland at such a price as to recall the sickening defeat at Bannockburn fourteen years before . |
| 13 | For was n't it better to have peace — even at such a price — than chaos ? |
| 14 | Telephone call took twenty minutes and had to explain how I had arrived at such a decision . |
| 15 | The problem is that the early lists of historic buildings were done at such a pace that they had to be assessed largely on the basis of their exteriors . |
| 16 | Travelling along at such a pace was an experience she would have enjoyed no end on a happier occasion , and even now she savoured the luxury of sweeping by those on foot as if she were royalty . |
| 17 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 18 | It went ahead later on such a scale and at such a pace that it can now be seen as one of the most important facts of modem history . |
| 19 | And before Sally-Anne could do anything about it the tall young man was tucking her arm in his , and walking her briskly along at such a pace that she was horrified to discover that Rose and her companion were gone , lost behind them as fresh crowds emerged from yet more emptying theatres and dance halls . |
| 20 | As reports from the Select Committee on Defence have made clear over the past few years , defence cuts are proceeding at such a pace that , if a future Labour Government continued in the same way , we would be left with Securicor and Group 4 to defend our shores and a steamship company to provide us with a substitute for the Royal Navy . |
| 21 | In 1757 Postlethwayt went so far as to argue that the national debt had had the effect of transferring property to the " money-mongers " at such a pace that , " Since our debts have taken place , not near one tenth of the land of England is possessed by the posterity or heirs of those who possessed it at the Revolution . " |
| 22 | I I 'm I say you must excuse me going on at such a pace but I 've got A I 've got another meeting quite shortly and B you 've got some little mo I think M Michael 's looking to take over . |
| 23 | It 's not easy to say what the narrating ‘ I ’ is doing at such a scene . |
| 24 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 25 | ‘ I have never been in attendance at such a consecration myself , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Far away in the darkness , a train sounded a horn , and it was a small proof of human existence , even at such a distance from her , even flashing past across the countryside powerless to assist to her . |
| 27 | At such a distance there must be as little as one molecule of scent in a cubic yard of air , yet it is sufficient to cause the male to fly in pursuit of its source . |
| 28 | In the first place , there is the time factor : her first biography was begun over twenty years after the publication of BT and even honest sisters ' memories would be fallible at such a distance . |
| 29 | ‘ It must be difficult to sustain a romance at such a distance . |
| 30 | Clearly upset at such a slight on Jay 's character Mr Morgan retorted : ‘ If you are taking that attitude you are not having the ball back . ’ |