Example sentences of "many at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excitement for many at the thought of returning home after the long hard years in exile . |
| 2 | By then , not merely was much more known about light , heat , electricity and magnetism , but the knowledge was unified with a powerful theoretical structure , so that while chemistry had seemed the fundamental science to many at the beginning of the century , by the end of it there was little doubt that this position belonged to physics . |
| 3 | That leaves many at the mercy of landlords in a tough market … like this young woman who was told to get out after falling one week behind with her rent . |
| 4 | I 've hardly got any in cos when I left my nursery I got them all to do me one and when I left my school I got a load of them to do me one I did n't get many at the day nursery , but I got a handful . |
| 5 | He was wondering if there would be many at the party likely to recognise him out of uniform . |
| 6 | There was no government policy to fundamentally tackle unemployment and seen against that background , many at the meeting felt they were playing a game . |
| 7 | In this respect , there were many at the meeting ( including me ) who felt the least we should be demanding of the industry and the regulators ( the DTI ) was that only the very highest environmental standards currently practised internationally ( the Norwegian oil field was given as a good example ) would be acceptable for operations in Cardigan Bay . |
| 8 | What a wonderful night : thousands of people , many of them young , black and white , all there is to thank an elderly man who had been in prison longer than many at the concert had even been alive . |
| 9 | The first photographic record dates from December 1961 , when film-maker Bruce Brown shot Phil Edwards — considered by many at the time to be the best surfer in the world — on a six-to eight-foot west swell . |
| 10 | Labour politicians , even those with a training in economics , were muddled about the issues , and generally seemed to favour the historic average cost principles , which also seemed to many at the time to be enshrined in the wording of the Act , which merely required the industry to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ . |