Example sentences of "at [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 7.00am the next morning I drove across London in shock and second gear . |
| 2 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 3 | The shares are currently at only a third of the 120p high they once reached . |
| 4 | It is true that our goods sell abroad , but with our currency at only a third of its post-war value , so they should ! |
| 5 | Without submarine work , Rosyth would run at only a third of capacity for its MoD work . ’ |
| 6 | In two days he had made birdies at only the 15th twice and the second once . |
| 7 | So I mean think about it as long term planning , and certainly for those under er sixty the long term becomes extremely long term because er you know you 're looking at perhaps a third of your life er which is er still to be accounted for . |
| 8 | I think we shall have to look at just the last two years . ’ |
| 9 | At 5am the next day , doctors had awoken Mr Taylor and his wife Joanne to tell them their son had had a heart attack and suffered severe brain damage . |
| 10 | Only half a dozen men and I were left , but almost at once a third plane arrived , and having been warned that they dared not wait as there were Jap planes about , we got on board and the plane took oft almost empty . |
| 11 | We were therefore very disappointed when Ms de Jonghe found she had to cancel everything at practically the last minute . |
| 12 | Lane , eight under after two rounds , played an indifferent outward half of 36 , but then eagled the 10th and had birdies at both the 12th and 13th to force his way into contention . |
| 13 | Faldo also made birdies at both the 15th and 16th and putted better than he had on either of the first two days . |
| 14 | When play resumed , Woosnam promptly dropped four shots in two holes with double bogeys at both the fourth and fifth as Raymond Floyd , now in his 50th year , went to the front with Fred Couples , both standing on 10 under par after eight holes . |
| 15 | However , he played far better yesterday and was heading for a 67 until he unexpectedly dropped shots at both the 16th and 17th . |
| 16 | Duly recovered from their exploits the two aeronauts made a more leisurely departure for Birmingham , in a chaise and four , at 3.00am the next morning . |
| 17 | Continue to knit and , at about every eighth row or so , place your hands on this rolled up knitting and evenly , gently , pull down the work . |
| 18 | Horizontal cracking is usually evident at about every sixth course of bricks . |
| 19 | They said 1990 would be fairly gloomy , with little increase in the number of houses being sold ( currently sales are running at about a third of the level of the last few years ) and no movement in prices throughout the UK . |
| 20 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 21 | It seems its very high speeds are only achieved occasionally , when pursuing food or escaping , and it normally cruises at about a third or a half of its rapid dashes . |
| 22 | At 11am the first proclamation is made under an ancient oak on the green ; this is repeated at a further four traditional places in the village . |
| 23 | I believe the world cricket authorities have got their act right by bringing in South Africa into the World Cup at virtually the eleventh hour and the IRB should not be stuck in the mud . |
| 24 | Moreover , trade union students , at around a fifth or a quarter of all short-course students , are a smaller proportion of the total than we hoped . |
| 25 | car park at 4.45pm and 7.45pm on 25 February and at 4.45pm the next day . |
| 26 | Even though chronic hepatitis C appears to be an indolent disease in most patients , the observation that at least a fifth develop cirrhosis and as many as a quarter progress to liver failure indicates that chronic hepatitis C is not a benign disease . |
| 27 | This would suggest that around 30 per cent of the " living-out " labouring classes were to some extent skilled , but if living-in servants of all classes are included the proportion would shrink to a quarter and if unskilled " manufacturers " are removed , we can conclude that at least a fifth of the men of the labouring classes of the eighteenth century were more or less skilled , that is had something other than " common " labour power to offer on the labour market . |
| 28 | All regions have now drawn up at least a first round of projects for inclusion on the shopping lists . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , several of the experimental novelists mentioned above actually began their careers in the 1930s ; Samuel Beckett , Lawrence Durrell , Malcolm Lowry , Flann O'Brien and Jean Rhys each having published at least a first novel by the time Finnegans Wake appeared in 1939 . |
| 30 | Yet it also represented at least a first step towards an institutional framework for dialogue between State and commoners . |