Example sentences of "at [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Built in 1821 as one of 17 semaphore towers , it was equipped with a time-ball in 1854 which drops daily at 1pm down a 15 ft-mast on the roof . |
| 2 | Ms Fitzgerald puts initial demand at perhaps only a dozen companies in the US , but adds that they are leading edge customers which other potential users will be watching carefully . |
| 3 | It was scarcely credible that this should happen at so late a stage and I asked the department to get the minute to me at once . |
| 4 | … a set of men who live by death and never care to appear but at the End of Man 's Life … their Business is to watch Death , and to furnish out the Funeral Solemnity , with as much pomp and feigned sorrow as the Heirs or Successors of the Deceased chose to purchase : They are a hard-hearted Generation , and require more money than Brains to conduct their Business ; I know no one Qualification peculiarly necessary to them , except that is a steady , demure and melancholy Countenance at Command : I do not know , that they take Apprentices in their Capacity as Undertakers , for they are generally Carpenters , or Herald-Painters besides ; and they only employ , as Journeymen , a set of Men whom they have picked up , possessed of a sober Countenance , and a solemn melancholy Face , whom they pay at so much a Jobb . |
| 5 | In sophisticated market planning , a certain type of work can be selected at so early a stage , on the basis of a few examples or of some calculated or projected demand , that production , from that stage , no longer originates with the primary producer but is commissioned from him . |
| 6 | Twins Rachel and Rebecca , seen here at just over a year old , live on the estate with their mother Carol . |
| 7 | Police say that at about 11am a man reported at the Green Garage service station that his car had broken down nearby . |
| 8 | At about 1pm a single shot was fired from a rifle , hitting the gunman in the upper neck and face . |
| 9 | The only difference I can find lies in the darker , more spiteful vision of the new film , and the fact that the cast seems almost manically inclined to get through it all as fast as possible and at as high a pitch as the Dolby Stereo can cope with . |
| 10 | Medical and legal expenses , public liability and cancellation should all be included at as high a level as possible . |
| 11 | Record these background effects tapes at as high a level as possible to minimise tape hiss , and go for longish recording runs to give yourself plenty of margin at editing . |
| 12 | The goal of the day hospital is to ensure that the patient 's level of functioning is maintained at as high a level as possible , while levels of anxiety in both patient and carer are decreased , levels of confidence being likewise increased . |
| 13 | The Chairman of the Chambre Nationale , Yannick Guilloux , said the charges brought against Britain must not be seen as the stand of one European country against another but a bid to harmonise tax regulation , at as low a rate as possible , in order to protect the art market within the EC as a whole . |
| 14 | While a good case can , in retrospect , he made for the national interest being served by higher prices , there were few at the time who argued against the interpretation of Citrine and Self that there was a long-run obligation to sell as much electricity as possible at as low a price as possible . |
| 15 | To meet the speed criteria it was essential that the wright of the boat was maintained at as low a level as possible , without sacrificing strength . |
| 16 | The principle of subsidiarity , whereby decisions were taken at as low a level as was feasible , was stressed . |
| 17 | Whilst the cost of unemployment in terms of human misery and risk of social unrest must be considerable , the attempt to seek a remedy must not be looked at as merely a social gesture . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , therefore , the single person 's pension has remained at around just a fifth of average gross earnings over the whole of the post-war period . |
| 19 | ‘ Your hydra is at least partly a thing of the warp , is it not ? ’ |
| 20 | Some feminists argue that biology 's conservatism about gender is at least partly a matter of lack of feminist will . |
| 21 | But for everyone , rehabilitation is at least partly a learning process . |
| 22 | Though this may apply to certain people , research findings indicate that suicide is at least partly a function of the availability of a lethal method of suicide . |
| 23 | Very few had considered what to do about the care management-care programming interface but then this is at least partly a problem for health authorities . |
| 24 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 25 | When the name of a vulnerable elderly person has been passed to a social services department , that person becomes at least temporarily a client . |
| 26 | This bias was no doubt at least partially a reflection of the haphazard organization of policing in Britain itself at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Underneath it all , Seth was still at least partially a man . |
| 28 | At its most typical , this new form of innovation is at least primarily a marketing function , and this contrasts sharply with other kinds of innovation , which , governed by internal cultural purposes , often find themselves at the very margin of the market or indeed outside it altogether . |
| 29 | Each of these steps must be an improvement , or , bearing in mind the last section , at least not a deterioration . |
| 30 | It is against that background that I return to the conclusion of the majority of the Court of Appeal that the mere fact that Wickes might be able to advance such an argument founded upon article 30 , which was at least not a groundless argument , compelled the Court of Appeal to require an undertaking in damages from the council . |