Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pie chart can help the retailer or business-person see at a glance exactly where the money goes . |
| 2 | Except where marriage occurs at a very young age , the earlier a woman marries , the younger she is when she bears her first child , and the more children she has when she reaches the end of her reproductive years , other things being equal . |
| 3 | To be eligible an enterprise should be registered in an EC member country and have a product or process aimed at a transnational market . |
| 4 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 5 | The category of ‘ further academic study ’ is a relatively broad one , comprising all full-time further education or training aimed at a higher or other degree at home or overseas . |
| 6 | The answer is that it is simply the degree of an experience 's pleasantness or painfulness taken at a moment , or its average pleasantness or painfulness over a period . |
| 7 | Firstly , any lingering gossip about scams or hype evaporated at an impromptu set for Windsor 's assorted scruffians last summer , where Flowered Up revealed themselves to be well drilled in jazz funk slinkiness ( ! ) . |
| 8 | There is spiritual value in the very handling of its primary elements to write a little song or dance , even an exercise ; even , as Bruckner used to show his classes , in a fifth or octave struck at a piano . |
| 9 | Probability of life arising on a planet ( in , say , a billion years ) , if we assume that life arises at a rate of about once per solar system . |
| 10 | Not even the British could stomach the sight of the King and Queen arriving at a Coronation in separate carriages . |
| 11 | Beryl 's love of movement and dance started at a very early age when she and her older sisters attended a local School of Dance once a week . |
| 12 | The convenience and exclusivity come at a price , though : £1.75 per metre , ex-VAT per day , and electricity costs £2 per day extra . |
| 13 | Both glans and prepuce are covered by stratified squamous epithelium , and separation occurs at a variable time from before birth to several years afterwards by desquamation . |
| 14 | On Dec. 5 , 1990 , the Commission put forward proposals to make it illegal for certain airlines to agree on standard fares or to distribute all available take-off and landing slots at a particular airport among themselves . |
| 15 | As the 1987 Vienna OPEC conference approached , there was further talk of a price increase , although the mainstream preference was for waiting until demand stood at a level capable of sustaining one . |
| 16 | The candidate 's interests , and ability and motivation to study at a higher level are what matter . ’ |
| 17 | Later the Britons showed an interest in the activities of the National Socialist Workers Party in Munich and Beamish spoke at a Hitler meeting . |
| 18 | Probability of life arising on a planet if life arises at a rate of about once per galaxy . |
| 19 | At 91 years of age , has just taken up painting water colours and choir singing at a local day centre in his home town of Hull . |
| 20 | The chances of achieving great things with your puppy increases if training begins at an early age . |
| 21 | MORE than 60 tonnes of hay and straw blazed at a Darlington farm last night . |
| 22 | The Banks have also agreed to give the IBOA information on staff and payroll costs at an early date . |
| 23 | If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical . |
| 24 | But , as with development planning in general , there is still a tendency to assume that development communication and information directed at a general audience will equally reach women . |
| 25 | During the century after the Restoration rural industries such as framework knitting and nailmaking grew at an unprecedented rate and the industrial towns flourished as never before . |
| 26 | You must agree that you need talent and persona to wait on a table and wit , tact and conversation to serve at a bar . |
| 27 | Again , Palin 's natural humour and ability to laugh at a situation is never far away , but I ca n't shake the feeling that we 've seen it all before somewhere . |
| 28 | But consciousness comes at a price , and the price is banishment from the Garden . |
| 29 | The Gloucester rugby men were weekend winners too … they beat Nottingham by nineteen points to three at Kingsholm … but victory came at a cost … a serious injury to hooker John Hawker |
| 30 | Because incense burns at an even rate and without flame , it is well suited for measuring the division of the religious day and for other purposes . |