Example sentences of "[noun sg] at price " in BNC.

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1 Mr Smith , who is also chairman of Fraserburgh Fish Merchants ' Association , said it was not just the French who were suffering from cheap fish imports — catches could be bought from eastern European boats in the North-east at prices which local fishermen say would put them out of business .
2 Willing buyers and sellers should be able to transact business at prices that reflect supply and demand .
3 A particularly tight swarm hummed around Mme Andre Malraux , widow of France 's first Minister of Culture , admiring a group of what could politely be called doodles by her late husband at prices between £100 and £800 .
4 It believes the site would have produced fuel at prices that could have sustained jobs in local power stations , rather than forcing them to rely on imported coal .
5 The shares are redeemable , at the instigation of Dawson International PLC , in whole on or after 15th January 1994 at their issue price or in certain circumstances upon earlier revocation of the guarantee at prices declining from 105 per cent to 100 per cent thereof failing which they will be redeemed on 15th January 2004 .
6 These include whether we can produce grain at prices which match those of the Paris basin or the re-emerging countries of the former Eastern Bloc , once known as the bread basket of Europe : can we produce and process milk with the efficiency of the Danes who last year paid producers an average price of 25 pence a litre for milk against 21 pence in Britain ; can we match the Dutch when it comes to producing , and in particular processing pigmeat ; can any horticultural enterprise compete with Spain with its cheap labour and sunshine .
7 Despite difficult market conditions we have been able to dispose of assets at varying stages of development at prices which compare favourably with those achieved for recent industry sales .
8 Even though I may be in a minority , I feel quite strongly that the job of the record companies is to issue recordings of music at prices the music loving public can afford — not to enhance that price by paying for learned disquisitions seeking to explain what ought to need no explanation .
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10 Secondly , the Bank gave notice that it would make its own forecasts of daily flows in the market so as to be ready to provide assistance but that when the need arose the houses would have to offer bills for sale to the Bank at prices of their own choosing .
11 The CAP favoured farmers over consumers , encouraged overproduction and high prices , forced members to buy food at prices higher than the world market , tended to benefit well-off farmers rather than the poor , absorbed most of the Community budget and distorted the world food market .
12 Remember this , your purpose you toyed executive , is to provide quality food at prices your clients can afford , while maximising your profit margin , am I correct ?
13 Other statistics , for example , show that households with retired heads have fewer domestic amenities of most kinds than younger households ( GHS 1986 : 67 ) ; and there is a serious shortage of sheltered housing at prices which older people can afford ( Tinker 1984 : 86–8 ) .
14 There was rather less humour at Price Waterhouse earlier in October when a 786-page report by Senator John Kerry was published in Washington .
15 Farmers would be allowed to sell produce from their private plots in markets or by contract at prices not fixed by the state .
16 According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Feb. 21 , these would involve a sharp reduction in Soviet aid ( to around US$110 million ) and would require Vietnam to make its purchases from the Soviet Union in hard currency at prices determined by international market rates .
17 At 31 December 1992 there were outstanding options under various employee share option schemes , exercisable during the years 1993 to 2002 , to acquire 9,668,454 ordinary shares of the company at prices ranging from £0.74 to £4.75 per share .
18 Even British farmers have been getting in on the act , attracted by the lure of cheap agricultural land at prices half those on our side of the Channel .
19 Last year , when the constitutional ban on forced purchase expired , Mr Mugabe promised to buy up half the remaining white farmland at prices he would set .
20 On riverside sites , sometimes on land previously used for industry , new or refurbished units have been put on the market at prices in excess of a quarter of a million pounds .
21 Its customers will be able to buy a range of home-grown organic produce at prices lower than those normally charged for conventionally farmed food .
22 It already takes more than 20 per cent of British production at prices that are comfortably higher than those offered at home .
23 The strike , which closed down shops , schools and the universities , had been called by the major opposition United Nepal Communist Party ( UNCP ) , supported by other left-wing groups , in protest at price increases which had doubled food costs , trebled electricity rates and , at a time of severe nationwide drought , increased the price of water by 62 per cent .
24 Families , commerce and industry need heat , light and power at prices they can afford .
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