Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year later damage had increased to 50 per cent and by 1985 it stood at 51 per cent . |
| 2 | When it got to about 1 a.m. he realised how cold it got at night when you are outside . |
| 3 | Mr Donald Dewar , Shadow Scottish Secretary , said Labour had fought an ‘ outstanding campaign ’ which would see it winning more than its present 48 of Scotland 's 72 seats at Westminster ; more , even , than the 50 it held at the last election . |
| 4 | On April 27th it closed at 73.68 to the D-mark , its lowest level since joining Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism ( ERM ) in 1989 . |
| 5 | At first it moved at no more than a lumbering trot , but by the time it was halfway up the street it was moving arrow-fast … |
| 6 | Prima facie the rules of construction must be applied as at the date of execution of the lease : thus a word will be interpreted in the sense it bore at the time ( Texaco Antilles Ltd v Kernochan [ 1973 ] AC 609 : the phrase " public garage " was given the meaning it bore in 1933 and not the one it bore at the date of the litigation ; St Marylebone Property Co Ltd v Tesco Stores Ltd [ 1988 ] 27 EG 72 construing the word " grocer " ) . |
| 7 | By 1951 this had risen to 30% and by 1987 it stood at 60% . |
| 8 | By 1925 it was down to 7 per cent and in 1971 it stood at around 4.1 per cent . |
| 9 | In 1979/80 the expenditure per student in polytechnics was 82 per cent of that in the universities : by 1987/88 per capita expenditure in the polytechnics had fallen to 58 per cent of the university figure and by 1989/90 it stood at a little over 50 per cent . |
| 10 | While all the posed pictures were being taken I was edging round among the columnists saying , " Please , give us a break , do n't put in that it happened at Drummonds . |
| 11 | For example , in 1964 , the average age of mothers having their first child was 24 years , by 1980 it had risen by 6 months and by 1989 it stood at 25.3 . |
| 12 | It seemed certain it happened at the time of manufacture . |
| 13 | By the end of 1990 it stood at 121 per cent , and the aim of reducing this to less than 70 per cent in 1991 appeared to be succeeding as the inflation rate for the first five months of the year was 38.9 per cent , compared with 84.5 per cent in the corresponding period in 1990 . |