Example sentences of "[noun] at about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example is the terrace around Lake Harrison at a little above 120 m ( 400 ft ) OD ( see Chapter 14 ) , which might easily be confused with the well-known British marine terrace at about the same level but probably much earlier in date . |
| 2 | ( f ) Hold the card at about the same level as your shoulder , ie above the heads of the first row of students . |
| 3 | He concluded that ‘ a mandate is a mandate and that she will derive real strength from having overcome so tough a challenge ’ , a stirring endorsement , weakened only by Thatcher 's withdrawal from the contest at about the time the column reached the chattering classes ' breakfast tables . |
| 4 | He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time . |
| 5 | There would , therefore be this degree of uncertainty At about the actual time at which the radiation was released . |
| 6 | A similar poll was carried out among academics in the United States at about the same time . |
| 7 | A dispute in Hungary at about the same time was not resolved so amicably , at least in part because Hungary occupied a far more important strategic position in terms of Soviet security than did Yugoslavia . |
| 8 | CND and judicial review At about the same time that legislation was introduced to tackle the problems raised by the Malone decision , the Massiter revelations led to a second attempt to challenge the pre-1985 procedures in the domestic courts , this time on different grounds from those which had failed before Sir Robert Megarry . |
| 9 | At first , Ackroyd thought nothing about it , but he saw him again the following Saturday at about the same time . |
| 10 | Advertisement er , revenue at Westminster Press ended the six months at about the , advert revenue about the same level as last year but it was below last year 's level early on , so in other words erm , advertisement volume is growing , because there 's next to no , there 's , the yield is about the same overall . |
| 11 | But it should be noted in passing that new mortgages for home-buying run at about the same level as the total volume of other types of new credit extended and outstanding mortgage debt is far greater than the total of all other forms of consumer credit put together . |
| 12 | The revival of Roman Law in eleventh- and twelfth-century Italy , and of canon law at about the same time , accustomed men to systems of law in which legislation was normal and easy . |
| 13 | Yet measurements on a core at about the same stratigraphic level in Newmill-1 averaged 16% and 212 mD , with values as high as 1 darcy . |
| 14 | The small study of children developing reading reported by Kyle ( 1981b ) confirms the general view , but shows up the gap between vocabulary development , where progress is made throughout schooling , and sentence comprehension , where deaf children frequently reach a plateau at about the 8-year-old level . |
| 15 | But they have not had an easy time of it , as much of the garden was originally covered by a concrete driveway , and the soil , though fertile had a layer of ironstone at about the depth you need to plan shrubs . |
| 16 | I could check that she had begun to get her divorce at about the time of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 17 | Minnelli had seen Jack while studying the film Psych-Out for some lighting effects at about the time he was in the pre-production stage . |
| 18 | ( I am of course ignoring here the question of the neuro-physiological maturation underlying the development of ego-functions at about the age of seven which was discussed above ( see p. 33–4 ) . |
| 19 | South Wales was converted in 1872 and most of the English broad gauge lines at about the same time . |
| 20 | At present the ice sheet is believed to be replenished by snow fall at about the same rate as ice melts or is lost into the sea . |
| 21 | It is known that he and she spoke on the telephone at about the time the power of attorney was executed . |
| 22 | Moreover , they must be able to anticipate IBM 's future strategy and be prepared to launch a competitive product at about the same time as IBM . |
| 23 | All these ideas were incorporated into the theory of plate tectonics which was more or less separately developed by a number of workers at about the same time in the late 1960s . |
| 24 | Certain LEAs do indeed seem to have reduced their overall awards budgets this year , but most are continuing to grant awards at about the same levels as in previous years . |
| 25 | Alex Stein has already been in touch with you , however I would formally confirm that we would be interested in such a publicity campaign for Council Tax at about the time bills are being issued in April . |
| 26 | Mr Loxton was sure that it was the actor he had witnessed near the shop at about the incriminating time . |
| 27 | Popular culture , thus , and high modernism were born in the same places at about the same time . |
| 28 | The effect of the new evidence from the two women was to suggest that the man who assaulted Miss Wilson was arrested an hour earlier , at 11:50pm , and that they were in the police station making their statements at about the time of the murder and the discovery of the body . |
| 29 | The effect of Law 's abrupt departure was magnified by the departure at about the same time of Walter Long , the only other Unionist of weight who combined an acceptance of coalition ( as a defence against Labour ) with a determination that the integrity of the party should not be compromised in any way . |
| 30 | One answer to this problem is tailored testing in which questions are computer-based and the test is adaptive in focussing the range of presented questions at about the level of success/failure which is appropriate for each testee . |