Example sentences of "at the upper end of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the upper end of luxury the first-class Mark 3s have much more room with one-plus-two seating , like their earlier Mark 1 and 2 counterparts but all in open saloon accommodation , since the side-corridor coach was deemed to be a thing of the past . |
| 2 | TYNDALL , the fund manager , has released a high interest cheque account aimed at the upper end of the market . |
| 3 | Kylie 's emergence as a pop star coincided with the arrival of a handful of other girls at the upper end of the charts . |
| 4 | At the upper end of the social and economic scale the mood of protest has been captured most effectively by the small but respected Republican Party . |
| 5 | SALARY : ‘ At the upper end of the market with company car , Bupa and pension . ’ |
| 6 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |
| 7 | At the upper end of this attractive Cotswold village , on the River Eye , is a former water mill now used as a bakery . |
| 8 | Although some developers provide low cost or rented housing within their schemes , the majority of housing is aimed at the upper end of the market thus setting in motion a house price spiral which effectively freezes the locals out of home ownership . |
| 9 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 10 | At the upper end of the scale came those shops which bewildered members of the public — those who could afford it all — with an astonishing range of merchandise : Dutch ratteens , duffles , frizes , beaver coatings , kerseymeres , forrest cloths , German serges , Wilton stuffs , sagathies , namkeens , Silasia cambricks , Manchester velvets , grograms , double allapeens , silk camblets , barragons , Brussels camblets , princes stuffs , worsted damasks , silk knitpieces , gattias , shagg velvets , serge desoys and shalloons . |
| 11 | At the same time the emergence of GCSE English has come to mean more than mere changes of emphasis at the upper end of secondary schools . |
| 12 | Now , however , more than 3,300 trees including birch , grey poplars , white and crack willow and horse chestnut all mentioned in Brown 's notes have been planted at the upper end of the lake . |
| 13 | However , this is at the expense of a new problem of economically providing , on the lowest model in the range , all the hardware facilities needed on models at the upper end of the range . |
| 14 | THWAITE hides itself away at the upper end of Swaledale as though it were trying to shelter from the rush and madness of twentieth-century life , and I ca n't say that I blame it . |
| 15 | It is a reasonable assumption — though little more than an assumption that ads in the categories at the lower end of the scale as it appears on the page will be more closely studied , and more thoroughly and consciously used by purchasers , than those at the upper end of the scale . |
| 16 | The Stock Exchange does not provide a class distribution according to size of holdings , yet the 23 per cent of shareholders who own stock valued at less than £500 are unlikely to be found at the upper end of the income scale . |
| 17 | As a recent and fundamentally sympathetic editor , Professor C. Wright Mills , put it , Veblen was blinded by the assumption quoted from his own book that ‘ the accumulation of wealth at the upper end of the pecuniary scale implies privation at the lower end of the scale ’ . |
| 18 | Even at the upper end of the market the newly rich tended to choose the conventional settings for expensive stones . |
| 19 | In Nucella , this has only been observed at the upper end of the scale . |
| 20 | His was for thirty-five years the pre-eminent retail business at the upper end of the market , supplying tableware and massive buffet plate to the jewel house and the Russian court ( Tsarinas Anna and Catherine , and Count Brobinski ) . |
| 21 | Only at the upper end of the market could such beautiful coloured works as Plants of the Coast of Coromandel ( 1795–1820 ) , published under the auspices of the East India Company , or Audubon 's Birds of America ( 1827–38 ) , find a sale . |
| 22 | Surprisingly , however , some Moslems , mostly at the upper end of the social scale , disagreed . |
| 23 | They were gathered in the High Street and around the market place , but could not compete with the standard of living of those at the upper end of the social scale in the county towns and old corporate boroughs . |
| 24 | When the trust is in demand , prices are likely to be at the upper end of the range and the trust is said to be on an ‘ offer ’ basis . |