Example sentences of "at [art] [adj] level of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | But in this period his salary , although not extravagant , was generous enough : the priest at Longdendale was allocated less than half the Master 's £10 , which stood at the higher level of salaries , ranging from £4 6 0d to £12 6 0d , at this time for such a position . |
2 | At the lower level of sounds , there is little difference between humans , dogs and cats — this is not where it counts , if you are a hunter of small rodents and birds . |
3 | In a nuclear world the sensible aim is a less fragile , more stable nuclear balance at the lowest level of armaments on all sides . |
4 | This tin of nuts was a continual source of nourishment to my brother and myself until in his exasperation at the fast-diminishing level of nuts my Father moved the tin out of our reach . |
5 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
6 | On June 6 the University of Zimbabwe authorities took action against students protesting at the high level of fees and demanding higher grants . |
7 | Attitudes to language learning in a society are crucial to success ( Strevens , 1978 ) , not only at the societal level of numbers of proficient learners but also in their effect on the individual learner 's perceptions of language learning . |
8 | Such theories include the conventional model of evolution , Big-Bang models of the origin of material substance , the concept that life is a by-product of biochemical complexity , that mind and thought are to be found at the physical level of molecules and electromagnetism , and so on . |
9 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |