Example sentences of "at [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | That was his Sunday ritual : over to Harry 's for cards as soon as lunch was eaten , and back at exactly a quarter after six , to read the Sunday papers and then sleep off the drink . |
| 32 | At just a few days old , she and Carly , who were born in Rush Green Hospital , Romford , Essex , joined at the chest and upper abdomen , sharing a liver heart cavity , were separated in seven hours of surgery . |
| 33 | This is due to the fact that we are no longer told to add crushed rusks to our babies ' bottles at just a few weeks old . |
| 34 | That is a far off mystic goal , perhaps , but let us at least attempt to stretch our minds , looking briefly at just a few of these cycles , and of the indispensable parts they have to play in the maintenance of planetary life . |
| 35 | Let's have a look at just a few . |
| 36 | Inside sources claim that Cobain is devastated by the revelations , and the possibility that Nirvana may cancel their appearance at Reading Festival is very real , given that the band were prepared to scrap their jubilant homecoming show at just a few days ' notice . |
| 37 | A quick look at just a few areas of today 's public relations work confirms that prediction : |
| 38 | In any case , a shotgun fired into the undertaker 's neck at close range would have made a real mess ; we would n't be looking at just a cupful of blood . |
| 39 | If , for example , there are 20 districts , it means that C 1 can grow at just a shade over one-twentieth the rate of growth of total expenditures and the condition for ON to exceed OP will be met . |
| 40 | Wesley and I have been looking round at just a few of the many attractions this year … |
| 41 | So we decided to take a look at just a little of what was on offer — comparing the leading firework brand with a cheaper one on offer . |
| 42 | I 'm in the Flying Fox and I 've just spent some time hovering at just a thousand feet over Bicester and the town centre looking good there . |
| 43 | Or are we looking at possibly a larger figure now for Greater York ? |
| 44 | The Christian painting may be at once a holy picture and a convincing representation of a woman tenderly cradling her son , seen in front of a north Italian landscape . |
| 45 | Her hand moved ahead of her lips , ablaze when she brushed the fine wiry hair between Lucy 's thighs , all at once a mapless explorer in a rich forest . |
| 46 | When I offer you champagne you laugh in a way that only you have , like a stream all at once a delighted cascade into this deep swirling pool of warm humour . |
| 47 | ‘ I have to pee , ’ said Lucy , all at once a child to be coaxed into the treat she wants . |
| 48 | This vision is like that which Eliot praised in his childhood favourite , Kipling , whose Puck of Pook 's Hill and Rewards and Fairies particularly ‘ give at once a sense of the antiquity of England , of the number of generations and peoples who have labored the soil and in turn been buried beneath it , and of the contemporaneity of the past ’ . |
| 49 | Eliot instances the activities of Dyak headhunters the production of whose carvings is at once a task utilitarian and sacred . |
| 50 | 1 ( a ) Possession is at once a good , old-fashioned Victorian yarn and a post-modernist parody of the same . |
| 51 | This was at once a problem and a happy release . |
| 52 | All at once a single shaft of moonlight exploded through a high window and struck this disc , causing it to revolve . |
| 53 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |
| 54 | The New Forest is at once a great national reserve of timber , a grazing ground for several thousand cattle and ponies owned by the Commoners , and a region for recreation and the enjoyment of scenery and wild life which , being open to the public , at large , has much of the character of a National park . |
| 55 | It was the end of the contest , but not the end of the game because almost at once a poor kick out of defence by Gloucester outside-half Matthews gave Webb and Guscott the chance to give Fallon his second sight of the corner flag . |
| 56 | Rudder also paints a picturesque scene in 1777 : ‘ On the curious travellers first approach it presents at once a very striking and respectable appearance , consisting of a number of well built houses , equal to a little town , lying very contiguous , but not joined together ’ . |
| 57 | Naturally both sides got down and our men started swearing at the Germans , when all at once a brave German got on to his parapet and shouted ‘ We are very sorry about that ; we hope no one was hurt . |
| 58 | Another reason is that when processes are understood at the molecular level then there is at once a natural link to chemistry , a most powerful body of knowledge to advance further understanding . |
| 59 | Coleridge became almost at once a leader of Bristol 's vigorous and combative intellectual life , in which the radical sympathies of a prosperous nonconformist community confronted the conservatism of wealthy merchants and professional men . |
| 60 | Record reviewers criticise from the standpoint of their own knowledge and experience , which is at once a strength , but carries with it inherent weaknesses . |