Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 2 | From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it . |
| 3 | This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life . |
| 4 | Also , for most communities infant mortality was reported to be lowest not at the second but at the third — in some communities even at the fourth — order . |
| 5 | A few decades ago at the US Department of Agriculture Experimental Station in Beltsville , Maryland , only female clucks were hatched from synthetically fertilised turkey eggs . |
| 6 | On Monday , a meeting was demanded with Francis Pym , a newcomer who had replaced William Whitelaw as secretary of state for Northern Ireland some weeks earlier at the beginning of December . |
| 7 | I 'll remember instead another lecture I once attended , some years ago at the Cheltenham Literary Festival . |
| 8 | ‘ Primitivism ’ the big show that addressed the relationship between the two a few years ago at the Museum of Modern Art got the debate off to a controversial and often acrimonious start . |
| 9 | When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’ |
| 10 | This rude awakening was , however , still a few years away at the time when Dustin joined . |
| 11 | Ben and Mrs Robinson arrange an assignation a few days later at the swanky Taft Hotel , where , after initial naivety and clumsiness almost make the occasion a farcical disaster , they end up satisfactorily in bed with one another . |
| 12 | Anything that kept her from running into Nicolo Sabatini was absolutely fine , which was why she had been delighted a few mornings later at the breakfast-table when he 'd told her he would be away for a few days . |
| 13 | If Dedham Hall is fully booked — and it may well be — try the best bed-and-breakfast we have ever found , just a few miles away at the Old Vicarage , Higham , near Colchester . |
| 14 | But just a few miles away at the Bennett House School it 's a different story . |
| 15 | Just a few miles away at the Camas camp 1100 refugees with a different story to tell are also preparing for winter . |
| 16 | Dining a few nights later at the Beefsteak , I was reminded by a bright spark that Home Secretaries scarcely ever become Prime Ministers . |
| 17 | Enthusiasm for botanical discovery took Captain Hutchinson of the Godolphin some miles inland at the Cape of Good Hope , drawn , Miller reports , by the fragrance of beautiful flowers . |
| 18 | Our discussion of such surveys both at the national and local level lead us on to examine the impact of crime on women and ethnic minorities , and to a broader consideration of how these groups are treated by the criminal justice system . |
| 19 | It is in everyone 's interest to fill out these forms accurately at the outset so that the necessary deductions and exemptions can be made . |
| 20 | British television was created with this idea in its heart , and has continued to develop over the last fifty years with these ideals firmly at the forefront . |
| 21 | The workers had heard those words many times before at the Russian Easter night service . |
| 22 | Finally the critical element in outcome is effectiveness but as already mentioned there are still big gaps in our knowledge of the effects of many procedures both at the individual and population level . |
| 23 | No , no — freedom with responsibility , that was the elusive formula we pondered all those years ago at the LSE . |
| 24 | There was a ring of sadness in his voice which she found puzzling until she remembered something from the past — Eddie 's voice repeating what he 'd told her all those years ago at the Oulton Park circuit . |
| 25 | , yeah it 's come in handy to put those things right at the beginning , that 's the first thing you look at , you do it on purpose . |
| 26 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 27 | Then most vividly he had described his own studies there at the ancient university of Heidelberg , capturing the attention of the two lordling drunkards by directing his talk not to his studies of the classics , philosophy , German language and metaphysics , but to the duelling societies , their codes and practices , feuds and meetings at misty dawn — sword fights to the death … |
| 28 | Well , they each seem to do one thing well enough , but fail to realise that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time . |
| 29 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 30 | There were far too many clinches and referee Thomas had to bring both men together at the start of the seventh to tell them to cut out the holding . |