Example sentences of "at the [n mass] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A broadcasting station would be necessary , with as many radio sets as could be provided ; film units to tour the towns and villages ; a news service for the newspapers in Burmese and English being published in Rangoon ; a daily newspaper in English and a weekly one in Burmese to give reliable news and print government communications ; and a network of public relations officers at the headquarters towns of District Commissioners . |
| 2 | The first parties of long-tailed ducks will arrive early in October , and glaucous gulls in first-winter plumage will join our resident herring and black-backed gulls to forage along the shores or scrounge a living at the salmon farms . |
| 3 | BRITISH Steel Shotton will be holding its annual fete and sports day at the works sports ground next Saturday , June 19 ( 1pm ) . |
| 4 | This produces a lot of propeller noise at the hovercraft terminals , and annoys nearby residents . |
| 5 | On their last visit to the Megabowl he had hurled his projectile directly at the fruit machines . |
| 6 | In 1931 , Horton visited Denmark to look more closely at the Folk Schools and their relationships with the trade unions , farmers ' co-operatives , and other cultural and social movements , and though he was in part disappointed by the fact that the Folk Schools had moved away from their original aims and methods , he was able to speak to many people who were involved in this movement and added another dimension to the idea which was eventually to find its expression in Highlander . |
| 7 | Toothy anglo teenagers still greet guests at the $300-a-night hotels . |
| 8 | well I am convinced by Andrew 's explanation erm I would like to say in terms of when we look at the staff costs against budget , and we came in at only eleven thousand pounds less , er I think that is a erm that we , we , we can congratulate our business manager , on the good control that 's been exercised over the past year . |
| 9 | We shall be taking a look at the Media Services Unit at the university that has provided the technical services for producing these programmes , and also we shall be talking about the response to the programmes themselves . |