Example sentences of "at [det] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EVEN in these less affluent times , there are those who are happy to buy expensive , muddy carrots instead of bright orange ones at half the price , or an expensive piece of beef instead of a cut-price special offer . |
| 2 | As Donald Rees from the South West Water Authority told the Lords : ‘ It is all very well lining a sewer at half the price that it would cost to build a new one , but in fact it may only last a quarter of a normal funding life and may therefore be uneconomic . ’ |
| 3 | … before they were all sold , a quantity of the same sort came up to town at half the price , so that the rest remained on hand . |
| 4 | Had he seen the timer in a shop window at half the price , he would have ignored it . |
| 5 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday took the new PowerCD CD-ROM product , announced at Hannover last week , to the US market , saying that it expects to sell 1.5m of the things by the end of this year ; it also said it has shipped more than 1m copies of its QuickTime multimedia software since its launch in January 1992 , and has formed a new unit , New Media to increase market access to multimedia technologies , expand multimedia content and develop new markets for Mac technology ; the PowerCD comes with AppleDesign Powered Speakers claimed to deliver high-quality sound at half the price of similar stereo speakers . |
| 6 | This is because the European Community dumps low-quality beef , at great cost to the European taxpayer , on West African markets , where it sells at half the price of locally produced beef . |
| 7 | European beef can be bought in West Africa at half the price of that produced in the Sahel . |
| 8 | Anybody who visited America at the time when the exchange rate was two dollars to the pound will confirm that they could purchase a pound 's worth of goods for a dollar ; that is , at half the price they would pay at home . |
| 9 | With some rich , buttery fruit and great depth of flavour , it has the quality level of top-class Burgundy , at half the price . |
| 10 | It was so cheap that it could be sold at half the price of the home-grown grain . |
| 11 | They are the colour of the leader of the council 's shirt and as such as such I would have said cheap at half the price . |
| 12 | Collectors ' Coins at half the Coin Year Book Price |
| 13 | Subsequent deceleration can be faster than acceleration , because friction torques assist retardation , and remaining clock pulses are therefore issued at half the clock frequency . |
| 14 | Ryan got the property at half the asking price , and the contracts were signed by proxy when he had returned to America . |
| 15 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 16 | MORTGAGES NOW The housing market is running at half the volume of four years ago , but borrowers need to look carefully at what 's on offer from lenders |
| 17 | A similar distortion is imposed by Christie on the ‘ Judex crederis ’ , where the vocal utterances are at half the tempo of the ‘ fanfares ’ , the whole being preceded by another enormous rallentando for ‘ Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes ’ . |
| 18 | Even though the gift was subject to a reservation Mr X must pay tax at half the Sched 1 rates as he has made a chargeable transfer . |
| 19 | The sound remains the same when played back at half the speed but lasts for twice as long . |
| 20 | The initial release consisted of two 32-bit EISA-based machines , one running at 66MHz , the other at half the speed . |
| 21 | If I do it at half the speed , just do it at thirty miles an hour , how long will that take ? |
| 22 | If I do it at half the speed . |
| 23 | Character A — or it might have been B again , for he seemed to be a right prune — had left late or had left early travelling at half the speed of the other . |
| 24 | The inverting input to IC5 , pin 2 , is held at half the supply voltage by the divider chain resistor R19 , R20 . |
| 25 | This must be held at half the supply voltage , and is achieved by using two resistors R2 and R3 of equal value . |
| 26 | If contracts are closed ( i.e. sold ) by the investor , commission is usually charged at half the rate of that for purchases . |
| 27 | At this the farmer pointed to a very small water melon . |
| 28 | At this the jackal laughed behind his paw . |
| 29 | He also warns : ‘ Never create a myth : it may come to life ’ ( at this the trumpet theme from Petrushka shrieks loud and clear ) ‘ and it will only end in sawdust . ’ ’ |
| 30 | At this the Friar looked thoughtful . |