Example sentences of "[n mass] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They target aircraft at specific markets . |
| 2 | Since the force exerted by the spring is the same at both low and high speeds , this makes it feel rather twitchy , and it is not difficult to overstress the aircraft at high speeds . |
| 3 | The curve is jagged because the values of raw time series data at adjacent points can be very different . |
| 4 | Students are encouraged to present their data at scientific meetings both in Britain and abroad and are expected to contribute to a lively programme of intra-departmental seminars and journal clubs . |
| 5 | First half profit before tax rose by 20% to £46.5m at United Newspapers . |
| 6 | First half profit before tax fell by 17% to £70m at United Biscuits . |
| 7 | Our friend the kingfisher apparently possesses computational mechanisms which can discover the real position of a fish at varying depths in the water . |
| 8 | Trawlers still operate at the mouth of the Mersey and the Dee , selling fish at coastal inlets . |
| 9 | They are in millions of US$ at retail prices . |
| 10 | The report forecasts that the UK fast food market is set to continue growing through the 1990s at between 5% and 6% at constant prices , compared with 10% value growth in turnover during the mid-1980s . |
| 11 | That was an enormous transformation from the world where you only met gay people at specific times of day in specific places under specific circumstances . |
| 12 | It now employs 40 people at new offices developed by Liverpool firm Neptune on the Columbus Quay . |
| 13 | People at other tables turned to the commotion . |
| 14 | A comparison with the position of young people at other stages in the post war period helps to put this in context . |
| 15 | I do not know the facts and the background and have not met the people at other firms , but I am impressed by the quality of the management and the attitude of the employees at Strathtay . |
| 16 | A similar choice was made by people at other times in different parts of Britain . |
| 17 | We dropped people at outlying villages . |
| 18 | In fact , he might have been , and very probably was , called a number of different names by different people at various times during his lifetime . |
| 19 | We stood people at various locations over the distance to establish a scale reference . |
| 20 | At present there are 37 people at various locations in three separate buildings . |
| 21 | And its LANStreamer MC 32 Adaptor , which eliminates local network bottlenecks , and Person to Person/2 , designed to enable people at remote locations to work together , are among five new local networking OEM products now offered by IBM . |
| 22 | Those people that had found ways of structuring their time , of organising themselves round routines , or having particular sorts of appointments to make _ and this could take many forms , like , for example , just getting up early in the morning to play a sport game , for example , or arranging to meet other people at particular times _ those people that had got some sort of time structure in their lives and some sorts of regular activities to carry out in their lives erm tended to be a lot less severely affected by unemployment than those people that did n't have these sorts of activities , this sort of time structure . |
| 23 | Quite independent of the social merits of re-using a redundant building to provide comfortable dwellings for local people at modest rents , a main factor encouraging the retention of All Saints Church was the value accorded by the local authority planners to the building for its contribution to the townscape . |
| 24 | I wrote all I knew and all that people at Open Houses , Playgroup and Nursery knew , and it all fitted nicely on a double page . |
| 25 | Even with Owen , she attracted some curious glances from people at adjoining tables . |
| 26 | Daphne Du Maurier in her The Rebecca Notebook says she will , when in France , just sit in a cafe and let the conversation or the attitudes of the people at nearby tables gradually impinge . |
| 27 | People at nearby tables looked round . |
| 28 | It is possible to see the weather from a long way off , but as the people at Old Slains know , the weather then arrives at such speed over the surface of the North Sea that seeing it approach seems hardly sufficient warning . |
| 29 | Different contraceptive methods suit different people at different times , so ask the advice of your family doctor or your family planning clinic . |
| 30 | Different people at different times and in different places , over a period of five years , displayed the same interest in the past , and ( within acceptable degrees of variation ) gave the same account of incidents and conditions , and gave the same weight to it in their explanations of their actions . |