Example sentences of "at [num] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their average earnings have stayed at two-thirds of men 's for the past decade , with employers segregating the sexes in job grades , said the commission . |
| 2 | The importance of such figures in terms of their ability to carry the message of Marxism to working people is suggested by Neruda 's account of how , travelling the nitrate region of Chile as a senator in 1945 , ‘ at hundreds of meetings , all very far away from each other , I heard a constant plea : that I should read my poems . |
| 3 | There was little danger that his pictures ( which were valued at hundreds of pounds ) would devalue the currency or be torn out of their frames and passed off as real banknotes : his jury acquitted after retiring for only ten minutes . |
| 4 | In the trial last month arising from the disastrous fire at the James Bourlet antique storage warehouse at Heathrow on 7 October 1991 when items of furniture and objects valued at millions of pounds were lost , Alan Baggs , air freight manager , was acquitted of starting the fire . |
| 5 | Wicklow , in 1986 , paintings and objects valued at millions of pounds were stolen by thieves who drove across fields to reach the house at 3.30 am . |
| 6 | The picture was owned by antiques hoarder Ronnie Summerfield who died three years ago leaving a collection valued at millions of pounds . |
| 7 | Floods in central and southern areas in late January 1990 killed at least 24 people , damaged over 14,000 houses and 3,000 km of roads , and destroyed bridges and railway lines estimated at millions of dinars . |
| 8 | Perhaps The Forest and the Fire was sought after by collectors all over the world ; the rarest lot in the sale , valued at thousands of pounds ? |
| 9 | They had turned Grand Prix racing into a private commercial war between Marlboro and Camel , Pioneer and Phillips , Canon and Braun , so that the drivers , covered in stickers at thousands of pounds a time , and their machines were now the fastest advertising boards on earth . |
| 10 | The non-sticky one is churning out copies of non-sticky ones at thousands of times the rate that the sticky one is making copies of sticky ones . |
| 11 | At thousands of locations the by-products of such decomposing waste pose " an unknown threat " . |
| 12 | In part his object , especially in New York , was to recruit seamen from British ships into the union , a device which Joe Cotter , for one , regarded with admiration since as a result membership of the NSFU " went up by leaps and bounds " But he was also testing out the reaction of the men to the notion of an international strike , a theme he pursued at dozens of meetings in the United Kingdom in the following year , thirty such meetings being held in London alone . |
| 13 | The tall man opened the hold and Hitch peered down into it , glancing at dozens of crates all of roughly the same size . |
| 14 | The event was part of the build up to Forbidden Britain Day on Sept 29 , when the ramblers plan mass trespasses at dozens of locations . |
| 15 | The Southern Health Board says the painstaking search is necessary to track down every patient who underwent invasive surgery by the junior houseman , who assisted at dozens of operations . |
| 16 | Food American Style — or British if you prefer — is available at dozens of restaurants and kiosks all over the Park . |