Example sentences of "[adj] at [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company estimates this at approximately 14 percent of the world market . |
| 2 | Ann Scott , a grandmother who 's done this at least seventy times before , was quickly arrested . |
| 3 | Although the CD4 counts of the 877 people given AZT were consistently greater than those of patients receiving only placebo , the first three years of follow-up have shown that the proportions of people in the two groups progressing to overt AIDS or even to death were not significantly different at roughly 18 per cent . |
| 4 | Now let us take a step in time and move from summer to autumn , the time when the lush weed is still present and the water still runs clear at not much more than summer level . |
| 5 | By Dec. 22 at least 23 magisterial districts in the Orange Free State and Eastern Cape had been declared unrest areas as a result of the attacks , and a government inquiry into APLA activities was established . |
| 6 | The NCC states that loadings of nitrate in rivers ‘ have been sufficiently high at biologically critical times of year ( e.g. early spring ) to cause environmental damage ’ . |
| 7 | For a tank up to 15″ high you need at least two tubes , and for a tank 18″ high at least three tubes . |
| 8 | Infant mortality remained unremittingly high at about 150/1,000 from 1840 until about 1900 , although this apparent stability may have been in part an artefact of the extension of birth registration to the least healthy groups of the population , and of a shift in the social class composition of births . |
| 9 | New buildings going up above broad boulevards ; spacious parks and rose-filled gardens , under a sky dramatic with cloud patterns ; the sense of a vigorous and tough-minded white community , with some at least eager to work out a new society along with the blacks . |
| 10 | you 'd already had some at least some former knowledge of all the other aspects of the railway in any case . |
| 11 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 12 | Instead of just getting twelve hours light twelve hours dark we get you know it might not get dark until eleven o'clock at night and it gets light at about four o'clock in the morning . |
| 13 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 14 | Lucy read , and between her sudden fascination for the floor tiles , edge of the table cloth , light thru' the wine glasses , Jay shot glances at Lucy , delirious at how small her hands were , how the rings she wore seemed to hold those tiny fingers together , how she longed to touch , kiss and suck those hands , nuzzle the inside of Lucy 's wrists . |
| 15 | So let's be free at least one tape erm , at least , at least one side based on the tape . |
| 16 | By 1985 at least half of them were lying idle , stored in warehouses because of shortages of skills and software programmes . |
| 17 | On March 30 at least seven parliamentary members withdrew from the NSF parliamentary group to form a " NSF-Dec. 22 Group " , the name referring to the date of Ceausescu 's overthrow in 1989 . |
| 18 | As reported on pp. 37172-73 , ethnic Albanians in Kosovo had begun the current wave of strikes and protests on Jan. 24 , and by Jan. 30 at least 20 people had been killed , mostly in clashes with police . |
| 19 | Rat liver plasma membranes prepared by the method of Aronson and Touster were resuspended in 5 mM HEPES buffer pH 7.5 at approximately 5 mg/ml and stored in liquid nitrogen until used . |
| 20 | Following the Aug. 2 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , Mubarak on Aug. 12 sent troops ( estimated by Le Monde of Dec. 2 at nearly 20,000 ) to Saudi Arabia , after playing a key role in persuading delegates at the Aug. 10 Arab League summit in Cairo to denounce Iraqi aggression against Kuwait and to call for its immediate withdrawal and the deployment of " Arab forces " to help Saudi Arabia [ see p. 37635 ] . |
| 21 | In 1278 at least one of these ended in death when Guideard , the Prior 's sergeant , killed Robert Wodecock and Laurence Cook during a brawl in Roger Tympan 's tavern . |
| 22 | Where a block grant has been paid in the past , the Department will continue to do so unless or until an alternative arrangement is reached with the provider , and undertakes to pay for new individual placements from 1st April 1993 at not less than the DSS rate . |
| 23 | By the spring of 1993 at least nine republics or regions within the Russian Federation were insisting that their own laws took precedence over those of the Federation as a whole , and the Chechen republic had gone still further and declared itself a fully independent state . |
| 24 | The authorities in Tripoli shift ed senior officers around from one post to another at relatively frequent intervals ; the officers themselves said that was not because the government was particularly concerned to create an impartial force ( such as a Gendarmerie or Guardia Civil ) , but because their loyalty was suspect : if they worked in their home areas , or stayed for a long spell of duty in one district , they might acquire a following of dissidents . |
| 25 | The Journal Citation Review ( JCR ) only lists those journals which are cited by another at least six times in one year . |
| 26 | At one time in the early 1900s at least four members of one family are named as teachers . |
| 27 | As of the end of June 1991 at least six of these statutes were undergoing the process of appeal which would almost certainly bring them eventually to the Supreme Court , where any of them could serve as the occasion for the reversal of the 1973 landmark abortion rights ruling , Roe v. Wade . |
| 28 | As recently as 1991 at least one authority still questioned the value of routine measurement of blood pressure under 35 . |
| 29 | By 1991 at least one million new cases of AIDS could develop in people already infected with HIV . |
| 30 | Amiss was as insulted as he was relieved at how little space was given in the newspapers to the injury sustained by J. Amiss , waiter : only two of the papers mentioned his name at all and one of them misspelt it . |