Example sentences of "[adv] at [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We spoke about the very good relationships between our Churches in Britain and I spoke about our foundation under John Wesley , with the links between personal piety and the search for righteousness in social justice We spoke about these things linking our two Churches together at quite a deep level . |
| 2 | We are already at quite a distance from the original simple idea of government by the people . |
| 3 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 4 | These civil laws allow judges to grant an " interim injunction " to stop publication until the trial of the action — which is usually at least a year afterwards . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , over in Summit , New Jersey , Unix System Labs says it is pleased with the DRA technology , though its ANDF effort is still at least a year away from release . |
| 6 | She articulates a theory of compromise between fate and free will once more at least a millennium old : in the Solomon and Saturn poem Saturn asks which will be the stronger , wyrd óe warnung , ‘ fated events or foresight ’ , and Solomon tells him that ‘ Fate is hard to alter … |
| 7 | If you 're planning a trip to TECHNIQUEST be sure to put aside at least an hour and a half . |
| 8 | Note that the first statement of the theme is always at least a third as long as the whole , while contrasting sentences are never very prolonged , and are sometimes quite brief . |
| 9 | Although I am convinced that the prime management problem is ‘ making it happen ’ , one has to accept that in life there is always at least an evens chance that one is going the wrong way . |
| 10 | They do it a half hour later or an hour later and if that holds , erm I think they usually , you know , it 's always at least an hour |
| 11 | There was also at least a century of crossing with Shorthorn , Hereford , Aberdeen Angus and Red Poll . |
| 12 | There were no juke-boxes or Coke machines , but there were many shelves of books around the room and a selection of magazines and newspapers ; there were also at least a dozen chess-boards . |
| 13 | Yet he too was also at least a little famished ; and he did appreciate cuisine . |
| 14 | Certainly Edward 's last ( and only surviving ) letter to the critic suggests that the period of mentorship had lasted for a reasonable time , probably at least a year . |
| 15 | He ‘ established methods of work , and initiated courses of improvement ’ under which by 1890 the average general death rate of Liverpool was declared by Sir John Simon [ q.v. ] to have been reduced by ‘ probably at least a fourth part ’ of the rate which prevailed when he became medical officer of health . |
| 16 | If we assume that some investors within each group were " not interested " in an activity made more profitable by the construction of a canal but only in dividends or , after 1790 , in speculative profit , and that this was almost wholly true of women investors , substantially so of the clergy and of the majority of those from the professions , then it is clear that overall at least a quarter of investment in canals was drawn from a net cast unprecedentedly widely . |
| 17 | The story of how such a principle was accepted by a war-time coalition government and why it was implemented in the form that it was in advance of all the other social security changes , is a useful illustration of the ways in which particular problems gain the attention of governments and how one social policy can be seen and adopted as at least a partial solution to those problems . |
| 18 | ‘ We ought to get Karen here at least a week before she leaves , ’ he said to Celia that weekend , ‘ so she knows the routine . ’ |
| 19 | Shift-change was long over ; Haminh should have returned here at least an hour ago , unless she had a lover who had n't been mentioned , who she was in the habit of spending a shift with . |
| 20 | Unfortunately at least a couple of the girls overdosed on Spanish Fly , a powerful aphrodisiac which caused violent and uncontrolled vomiting in addition to its furiously libidinous effect . |
| 21 | It was the end of the contest , but not the end of the game because almost at once a poor kick out of defence by Gloucester outside-half Matthews gave Webb and Guscott the chance to give Fallon his second sight of the corner flag . |
| 22 | Coleridge became almost at once a leader of Bristol 's vigorous and combative intellectual life , in which the radical sympathies of a prosperous nonconformist community confronted the conservatism of wealthy merchants and professional men . |
| 23 | Only half a dozen men and I were left , but almost at once a third plane arrived , and having been warned that they dared not wait as there were Jap planes about , we got on board and the plane took oft almost empty . |
| 24 | Almost at once a telephone rang again . |
| 25 | Almost at once a rapid shrinkage of the arable area began . |
| 26 | Almost at once a head came round : a woman 's . |
| 27 | If Labour 's petit Bourbons fail to recognise at last that the division of the non-Tory vote has for two decades made majority Labour government impossible , and that the Liberal Democrats are not going to disappear , then at least a disunited rump of the UK will be consigned forever to that category . |
| 28 | genetic engineering and spare-part surgery — is beginning to offer hopes of , if not immortality , then at least a major extension of lifespan . |
| 29 | So again can you see you have other people to consider if you 've partners , but that 's one of the difficulties of having a partner , but then again think , if you do n't have a partner , that 's worse cos you 've nobody to communicate with , nobody to shout at , nobody to organize or organize you , er nobody ready made to go out with , you 've got it all to do yourself because your number one requirement when you 're left on your own is to get the company and the activity , whereas if you , if you are er living with a person then at least a certain amount of that is ready to hand . |
| 30 | He had been there at least a week , a stain of blood spreading out from his face across the bottom mattress , his shattered body preserved by the freezing February weather . |