Example sentences of "work out at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Well , I hate to disappoint you , but flying in New Zealand can work out at less than half the average cost per hour in the UK .
2 Dunedin charges £15 per holding for the sale , but for larger sums this can work out at less than a front-end trust fee .
3 The answer worked out at twelve tons .
4 In order to achieve the First Five-Year Plan , figures worked out at that moment estimated that the manpower necessary for attaining the production goals at 4.1 million workers and employees ( i.e. an increase of 1 million or 33% ) .
5 He told me that he got an awful rocket from the Director of Accounts when he handed in the bill which worked out at several hundred pounds — and here we are talking of the year 1946 !
6 The offering for staff at Evertidy Furniture in Wolverhampton , West Midlands , worked out at less than half a pub measure each .
7 It charged no entrance or annual fees to its first card-holders , and a variable interest rate on outstanding balances which worked out at .5-.75 of a percentage point below the bank cards ' average .
8 But , in order to buy rather than rent their own homes , Britain 's nine million home buyers now have to borrow an average of £37,000 — more than twice the average income — whereas 10 years ago the average loan of £11,800 worked out at 1.7 times income .
9 changes on the other t table which has er worked out at thirty four per hectare .
10 This theory , already prefigured by Klopstock , was worked out at inordinate length by the poet , scholar and translator Johann Heinrich Voss ( 1751–1816 ) and , erroneous though it was , it served to fuel the growing fire of Hellenism by Stimulating the imitation of Greek metres in German poetry .
11 Critics of the deal , which was worked out at ministerial level , say that it would have been more sensible to spend the money on rebuilding the Villahermosa Palace to be an annexe for the nearby Prado , which is urgently in need of more space , as well as the kind of modern facilities which have ‘ put the Villahermosa among the ranks of intelligent buildings and the top museums of the Nineties ’ , as the press release boasts .
12 The maximum payment permitted under Article 3(4) of the Directive is currently 97 European currency units ( ECU ) per livestock unit , i. e. £60 , and the existing levels in the ‘ severely disadvantaged ’ UK zone work out at 72 , 68 and 46 ECUs for hill cow , hill ewe and upland ewe per livestock unit , respectively .
13 The plan was not working out at all well .
14 That works out at fifty P
15 That works out at fifty P
16 It had six bedrooms , which works out at two each , as well as two bathrooms and about eight downstairs rooms .
17 The return on assets works out at 1.8 per cent compared with a 3.75 per cent target set by the Government .
18 So nine hundred , it works out at nine pound odd
19 Their recording time works out at three years per album .
20 Does this mean now a retention of significant capital works out at ten percent ?
21 Our planned expenditure for this year er works out at ninety one thousand one hundred , and this includes the money for projects .
22 It works out at 22.4 dm3 .
23 He estimated 8 x 108 tons transported annually to the sea , which works out at 0.025 kg per square metre of the sea floor .
24 Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price .
25 This works out at 1,460 rupees a year for a rickshaw worth just 2,000 , so he could have bought ten rickshaws with the money he has given the owner over the last 15 years .
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