Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] at [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 We could go out to work , although usually at lower salaries and with lower expectations than men .
2 It would be impossible administratively to place a higher tax on a given item for those with higher incomes although one could impose indirect taxes mainly on the goods and services consumed by higher-income groups , and perhaps at higher rates .
3 Women consuming one unit of alcohol per day at the time of conception and during pregnancy have babies that are smaller and thus at greater risk of illness .
4 With that sort of credibility , the task becomes feasible — and probably at lower interest rates than Britain now has .
5 One may look not only at the rest of the section in which the word appears but at the statute as a whole , and even at earlier legislation dealing with the same subject-matter — for it is assumed that when Parliament passed an Act , it probably had the earlier legislation in mind , and probably intended to use words with the same meaning as before .
6 Paul shouts angrily and loudly at smaller children who want to play with the toys he is using .
7 Moreover , succeeding governments tried to operate the economy at lower levels of demand and therefore at higher levels of unemployment in order to reduce inflationary pressures .
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