Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] at an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mersey building programme had continued at an impressive rate throughout 1990 with orders recently placed for the last 14 fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) boats — due to be completed within the next 22 months . |
| 2 | The first witness had decided at an early stage not to travel to Dublin ; the second only recently made his decision not to give evidence . |
| 3 | The sole previous Airbus crash had occurred at an air show in France in 1988 [ see p. 36230 ] . |
| 4 | Harry had realized at an early stage , however , that he would need to keep a clear head if he was to remember all he was told . |
| 5 | In 1979 , the World Bank published a glowing report , Romania : Industrialization under Socialist Planning , which claimed , on the basis of official Romanian government figures , that in the quarter century between 1950 and 1975 , the Romanian economy had grown at an average compound annual rate of over 9% . |
| 6 | Consumer prices had accelerated at an annualized rate of 5.5 per cent in January 1990 , and the visible trade surplus in 1989 was the lowest recorded for 10 years . |
| 7 | Since Bush 's State of the Union address , Congress had moved at an unusually rapid pace to adopt a tax package which would be responsive to his demands but would also shift a greater proportion of the tax burden on to the wealthy . |
| 8 | She said the driver had stopped at an intersection , got into the back seat with her and assaulted and raped her . |
| 9 | Count Tolstoy 's co-defendant , Nigel Watts had said at an earlier hearing that he had never intended to push the whole debt on to the historian . |
| 10 | In the previous four years GNP had grown at an average rate of about 3 per cent per annum which was lower than the preceding years and unemployment had reached a peak of 8.3 per cent in 1970 . |
| 11 | She was , as Clara had discovered at an early age , colossally inconsistent ; and sometimes Clara thought that it might have been easier to live with a true religious fanatic , whose fads and fancies would be at least predictable and well-marshalled , with the backing of some kind of external authority , from which there could be some appeal . |