Example sentences of "at a [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I make my own — at a fifth of the cost of the shop-bought article . |
| 2 | ‘ At a fifth of a carat per stone that would be forty thousand stones . |
| 3 | Harrods Library , which had an extensive clientele , used to publish long lists of ex-library books which could be bought at a third of the price when new , or less if rebound for library use . |
| 4 | HOLLAND 'S only commercial reactor at Borssele is just about as ordinary a nuclear power plant as you could expect to find : 477 megawatts , 10 years old and saddled with a 20-year contract to supply electricity to the neighbouring Pechiney aluminium smelter at a third of the present going rate . |
| 5 | In an era when £3m appears to be the going rate for a striker , he could prove a real snip at a third of that price . |
| 6 | Marcus calculated that by taking into account property costs — estimated at a third of those in London — and salaries on average £2,000 lower , the paper should save £658,000 a year by being based in Manchester . |
| 7 | A mini dental surgery will be set up in the office and toothbrushes and toothpaste will be on sale at a third of normal price until Friday . |
| 8 | Less than half the rail network was operable , industrial production was at a third of its pre-war level , overseas trade was at a standstill . |
| 9 | Let's leave that problem , though , and look at a few of the more important kinds of places in which eruptions occur , relative to a preexisting volcano . |
| 10 | I peered at a few of them , identifying Filmer and Daffodil 's Laurentide Ice as a light grey colt with brittle-looking bones , the Lorrimores ' Voting Right as an unremarkable bay , and the Youngs ' Sparrowgrass as a bright chestnut with a white star and sock . |
| 11 | Let's look at a few of these confusing clouds and their real meanings . |
| 12 | Done quite a wee bit and I 've been there at a few of their , quite a few of their meetings and erm a good friend of quite a few of the councils . |
| 13 | Well Sandy , we 've only looked at a few of the things in your shed and a very few of your photographs but it 's been fascinating . |
| 14 | I 've looked over the shoulder at a few of these and they are obviously not the sort of thing , that you came sliding out of your mother 's womb knowing how to do . |
| 15 | And I thought we might look at a few of them . |
| 16 | He 'd shot hand-held at a fifteenth of a second at f4.5 . " |
| 17 | Plenty of small ones just float down through the atmosphere like dust — which , at a tenth of a millimetre across , is pretty much what they are . |
| 18 | Still positioned as a technical , rather than a commercial Unix supplier — and with its sights set firmly on the Cray Y-MP and Convex Computer Corp user community — the Mountain View , California company has introduced Challenge and Power Challenge server systems , claiming Cray-equivalent performance at a tenth of the price . |
| 19 | Erm what would happen if I drive at a tenth of the speed ? |
| 20 | If I drive at a tenth of the speed , is it gon na take me longer or is it gon na take me is it gon na be quicker ? |
| 21 | It had helped Britain to keep AIDS levels at a sixth of those in France and a third of Italy 's . |