Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unilever helped sentiment by revealing third-quarter profits at the top end of expectations . |
| 2 | She could see French windows at the far end of the room . |
| 3 | I thanked him for his cheering thought and walked over to interrupt Barry who was involved with a small group of well-heeled tourists at the far end of the bar . |
| 4 | Most of the staff began to fall on this with cries of delight , but as he looked around , Amiss saw two sad brown faces at the other end of the table . |
| 5 | There was a table and two wooden chairs at the far end by the slop buckets . |
| 6 | After a moment , my eye was caught by something lying in the gutter at the base of the parapet , then almost immediately by two similar objects at the opposite end . |
| 7 | Reckitt & Colman also revealed annual profits at the top end of market expectations , but the price slipped 3p to 603p . |
| 8 | A typical Copepod structure is retained with the characteristic egg-sacs at the posterior end . |
| 9 | She said there were seasonal opportunities at the top end of the restaurant trade and predicted real volume opportunities in frozen , value-added products . |
| 10 | For a later trial lower and upper points were chosen on the ad hoc basis that ‘ an approximation to the subject was visible ’ ( though interfered with by black areas at the lower exposure and white areas at the upper end ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe to you , Piper , but I 'm bloody sure the unfortunate bastards at the receiving end of the high explosive do not appreciate its musical talents . |
| 12 | BTR cuts : BTR , the industrial conglomerate that won a fierce takeover battle for the Hawker Siddeley engineering group , came up with pre-tax profits at the top end of City expectations yesterday . |
| 13 | There was a banging on the great doors at the far end of the room . |
| 14 | Thus the peaks and troughs of the two curves match , illustrating the obvious conclusion that military policy-makers should be seeking ways of increasing the deterrent capabilities of their armed forces in the lower-intensity bands at the right-hand half of the spectrum rather than in the higher-intensity bands at the left-hand end . |
| 15 | The colour , as with the Scarlet Ibis , originates from blue-green algae at the lower end of the food chain . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , you know , of course , that most people used to break their boiled eggs at the larger end . |
| 17 | He examined the long split-level room stretching away from him to the tall windows at the far end . |
| 18 | Looking out of the window on this pleasant Sunday afternoon , she smiled as she saw the three children engaged in various activities at the far end of the garden . |
| 19 | Some sites were clearly more dependent than others upon their own agricultural production , which encourages the belief that many small towns at the bottom end of the urban scale did not develop much in size or functional complexity beyond their large-village counterparts . |
| 20 | The urban poor have many other issues alongside the escalating price of fuel — particularly imported inflation manifested in high prices for cloth and imported household items , high urban rents and low salaries at the bottom end of the public sector . |
| 21 | Jackson Chatterton had appeared in canary yellow pyjamas at the far end of the stateroom . |
| 22 | The room was permeated by a fresh bitter odour of crushed fern , which combined pleasingly with a heady floral scent being exuded by fragranced fountains at the far end of the room . |
| 23 | In we went , into curtained-off quarters at the far end of the longhouse . |
| 24 | In this case , try feeding at one end of the tank and then , while the bolder fish are busy , feed the timid ones at the other end . |
| 25 | A woman in her forties was busily scrubbing tables at the far end . |
| 26 | An inn ; a number of Victorian houses and other properties at the western end of Chiswick High Road , enjoyed a view over open fields and orchards beside the Brentford Fruit and Vegetable Market until the initial work commenced on the construction of the first dual carriageway road , with a separate cyclists track , in the western suburbs . |
| 27 | Second , the hierarchy of residential roads has been deepened by the addition of a series of new classifications at the low-volume end as Figure 7.2 shows . |
| 28 | Kylie 's emergence as a pop star coincided with the arrival of a handful of other girls at the upper end of the charts . |
| 29 | Objections to the deposit plan have been received concerning two adjoining sites at the northern end of Skelton , topic area D thirty nine which is a paddock , and topic area D forty which is a small field between the paddock and the A Nineteen . |
| 30 | This point is well illustrated in ‘ The Disappearance ’ after the death of one of the main characters at the very end of the book . |