Example sentences of "at either " in BNC.

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1 You work here for an hour at either end of the day , sleep in this funny little store place I 've found you and during the day you can try and find something more normal .
2 Start from a crouched position with your hands touching the floor at either side of your feet .
3 a short trunk route between two major conurbations , electrification already in place at either end , that would seem to be the absolute classic next stage .
4 When the result — 373 votes for , 12 against — flashed up on the black and green computer screens at either end of the chamber , the assembled deputies gave themselves a short , self-congratulatory round of applause .
5 His first two albums ( Look Sharp ! and I 'm The Man , released at either end of 1979 ) owed their sweaty energy to the push and shove of new wave .
6 Already the mayors at either end of the Bridge , Art Agnos ( Giants ) and Lionel Wilson ( Athletics ) , have taken time out from civic duties to place ritual side bets with each other on the outcome .
7 The result of this sensitivity for the majority of respondents was a friendly but uneasy and measured co-operation , although there were extremes at either pole .
8 It should not be imagined that the tiny Party élite at either of these provincial levels could maintain a tight hold .
9 Single poles are used at either end to convert the Tube into a high profile bivi tent .
10 Heavily based on a slightly stretched platform from Chrysler 's ubiquitous K-car , the Mexican-built Spirit R/T is a boxy four-door , elongated at either end so that it appears rather narrower than its 68.1ins width conveys .
11 For Campbell , the designing of Ebberston was really a chance to perfect his Palladian dream in miniature , for it would have fitted into the hall at either of his famous houses , Houghton in Norfolk or Mereworth in Kent .
12 The busiest routes are carved up by bilateral deals between the national airlines at either end .
13 Not all Americans enjoy what they see , at either end of the continent .
14 ‘ At the front , the JBC front axle has five-stud hubs at either end , but we could n't fit standard JJCB five-stud wheels because they 're too small , ’ he points out .
15 Mucky Beck was a frightening rat-infested torrent , with steep moss-stained steps at either end of the alley and untold danger lurking in the shadows between .
16 Hunslet claims its trains , based on three cars with a driver 's cab at either end , will use 30 per cent less energy than similar electric models .
17 Hunslet claims its trains , based on three cars with a driver 's cab at either end , will use 30 per cent less energy than similar electric models .
18 John Fisher , a Cambridge man , is the only head of a college at either university to have been made a saint .
19 Bells were rung at either end of a conversation to signal the beginning and end of the call .
20 This was operated by a series of huge lifts at either end , and horses , carts , and thousands of Glaswegians made the daily descent into the Stygian depths beneath the cold waters of the Clyde .
21 However , because of the two dithiadiazole functionalities at either end of the molecule , the solid state structure is polymeric rather than dimeric .
22 Toll houses were positioned at either end and tolls continued to be collected until 1873 .
23 It should have an isolating valve on the pipework at either side .
24 From then on there were two grandfather clocks at either end of the main corridor , one wood and one metal .
25 In order to effect transfer of vessels at either level , the two tanks must not travel on the same plane .
26 Even fairly recent maps show a substantial pond , with buildings at either end of it , now all gone .
27 At either side of her stood a faithful attendant , one being a confidential maid , the other a Miss Drake — an old , mittened companion , hardly younger in appearance than herself — both of whom watched her with eyes of solicitous reverence , and seemed always ready to collapse into quasi-religious curtseys .
28 In the house is a fine court room with a plaster overmantel. two small rooms at either side of the fire place were used as pantries .
29 The ‘ headlands ’ , where the horses or tractors turn at either end of the ridges , constitute too large a proportion of a smallholder 's roots field to be allowed to lie fallow , but they can not be cultivated and sown until the inter-row hoeing is completed .
30 The single rough road across Simonswood Moss near Liverpool is barred at either end by the intimidating iron gates of the Knowsley estate .
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