Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an overnight fast , the drugs were given at least 1 h after waking . |
| 2 | Daniel 's work in 1974 showed that though 50 per cent of managers and professionals were given at least three months ' notice by their employers , the corresponding proportion for the unskilled was a mere 9 per cent . |
| 3 | The mines at Sar-i-Sang were situated at over 8,500 feet and could be operated for only a few months in the year . |
| 4 | Because the eccentric labelled spots in the retinae were situated at least 6.5 degrees away from the fovea , all ganglion cells projecting to the enclosed cortical region were included . |
| 5 | Until 1986 , education budgets were sustained at over 10 per cent of government expenditure , but hyper-inflation , currency devaluation and overall budget cutbacks have eaten into the real amounts of money involved . |
| 6 | In 1984,20 per cent of all establishments were using at least one fixed-term contract worker , and a third of these ( seven per cent ) were using a number equivalent to at least five per cent of their labour force . |
| 7 | About 17 per cent were using at least one agency worker and , again , a third of these ( six per cent ) were using a number equivalent to at least five per cent of their labour force . |
| 8 | All drugs were stopped at least 48 hours beforehand . |
| 9 | Their usual drugs , which were either sulfasalazine or oral 5-aminosalicylicacid ( 5-ASA ) , were stopped at least 48 hours before mucosal biopsy specimens were taken . |
| 10 | Any antidiarrhoeal drugs were stopped at least three days before the SeHCAT test . |
| 11 | When the leasing firm last year promised $100m of fresh equity , its loans and MTNs were trading at about half of face value , with higher prices for the shorter maturities due for repayment soon . |
| 12 | No drugs were permitted at least 48 hours beforehand and during the monitoring . |
| 13 | In order to bring you up to date the items were prepared at very short notice . |
| 14 | That in fact we were looking at almost two months ' work erm for project engineering , when in fact that scheme would have been condensed down into project engineering . |
| 15 | And we were looking at how this top corner of the map related to the surrounding that those those erm reference points east north and west do relate to the open land outside of that . |
| 16 | The dresses were secured at either one or both shoulders , with brooches , pins or possibly stitches . |
| 17 | Determinations were made at approximately 50–100 ft ( 15–30 m ) intervals from top Carboniferous to TD in each sampled well ; the minimum amount of section over which measurements were made was 18 ft ( 6 m ) and the maximum was 11240 ft ( 3425 m ) . |
| 18 | A mile to the west of Loch Gorm the road to Gruinart cuts through a settlement at An Sithern of about a dozen round houses which were constructed in the late Bronze Age and which a cursory examination has shown that they were used at least three times . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if you went to the other end of the scale and in that same season you looked at all horses that were offered at precisely two to one on , then you 'll find that there were twenty two horses which were offered at those odds and fifteen of them won . |
| 20 | Well , I do n't have up-to-date figures because I have n't had the time to compile them , but I do know — I know it 's twelve years ago , but — in nineteen seventy three if you look at horses that were offered at precisely fifty to one , then you 'd find that there were five hundred and thirty horses offered at those odds during the whole of that season . |
| 21 | To make matters worse , practices that were valued at twice gross recurring fees a few years ago are now being sold for half recurring fees . |
| 22 | The problem of the poorest was that they could not afford such rents as would bring an adequate return for builders and property-owners , unless they were crammed at very high density in properly which received minimal repair . |
| 23 | While we were waiting at about 10.30 p.m. to go on night shift , we were subjected to a certain amount of what would now be called ‘ sexual harassment ’ , which we learned to parry quite neatly ; but the arrangement did seem a little thoughtless on the part of the B.P. Transport Department . |
| 24 | From one analysis of data for 25 developing countries , it was determined that , if all children were born at least two years apart , about one in five infant deaths would be averted . |
| 25 | Histologically normal mucosal strips were excised at least 5 cm from the tumour and stored in 70% ethanol . |
| 26 | However there are sometimes indications that women were doing at least some of the other operations . |
| 27 | Quasi-periodic solutions were found at sufficiently small a , and chaotic solutions developed after a sequence of period doublings as f is increased when a = 0.05 ( see Fig. 2.23 ) . |
| 28 | A survey by the waste management company Grundon found that ( i ) incinerators were run at too low temperatures , were overloaded , and produced black smoke ; ( ii ) emission and temperature warning alarms were ignored or switched off ; and ( iii ) storage areas were littered with burst bags , exposing used syringes , dressings and other material . |
| 29 | All were raided at precisely 8.15 am . |
| 30 | The village children were reading at least some words by the time they were six . |