Example sentences of "at [adj] rate a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at any rate a sketch of what might be involved in restoring a writer — in this case , the young Pound — to the highly specific social milieu , that of Edwardian England , in which he moved and on which he impinged . |
| 2 | But sportsmen must retire ; their bones insist upon it , and most try to do so if not at the height of their powers — that is too much to ask , no matter how determined the vows of youth — at any rate a day before they are asked to go rather than a day after . |
| 3 | Some women found at any rate a sanctuary behind the veil , but a convent was more likely to be a hell of rebellion and constraint to her . |
| 4 | Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs . |
| 5 | ‘ You try having a father — or at any rate a stepfather — who 's in a coma . |