Example sentences of "at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , but at fifty ? ’ |
| 2 | It was remarkably clean and well-maintained , and all the lights worked but Clive felt as if he ought to be wearing a pith helmet , and carrying a hunting rifle that could bring down a charging rhino at fifty paces . |
| 3 | At fifty feet he levelled out , slipped the safety off the spear gun , and swam slowly round the coral outcrop . |
| 4 | What are tragic to behold are women … who suddenly do a volte face at fifty and say , ‘ Why did n't I have children ? ' ’ … |
| 5 | No , it disappeared round the corner at fifty miles an hour , off to a dawn raid on drug smugglers . |
| 6 | I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below … |
| 7 | Lift-off occurs at fifty knots , and once airborne a climb speed of 65 knots is aimed for . |
| 8 | A widow now , formidable as she had always been , she managed to exude disapproval at fifty yards . |
| 9 | Old at fifty , indeed ! |
| 10 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 11 | They stopped when they saw him , then dived right and left , but at fifty yards the rifle was lethal and Sharpe saw his bullet lift a man clean off the ground . |
| 12 | But at fifty yards the French muskets were almost as accurate as the Baker rifle . |
| 13 | At fifty Nellie Tanner was still slim and attractive . |
| 14 | Knock out a rabbit at fifty paces , they told him in the shop . |
| 15 | Well I had a hysterectomy when I was forty nine and to me life really did begin at fifty ! |
| 16 | And yet people you see them , lorry drivers and car drivers , but lorry drivers themselves , they 're happy to go along the road at fifty sixty miles an hour with such a short distance between themselves and the vehicle in front . |
| 17 | that 's the one looking at fifty degrees . |
| 18 | G. A. Henty , Stanley Weyman , Baroness van Hutten " Pam at Fifty , " G. K. Chesterton , P. G. Wodehouse , William Le Queux , E. Phillips Oppenheim , Ian Hay , Beverley Nichols , George Borrow , " Taffrail , " P. C. Wren " Beau Geste , " Joseph Hocking , A. C. Benson , Raphael Sabatini , Anthony Trollope , George Merideth , Nat Hawthorne , Neil Munro , E. Temple Thurston , Zane Grey , W. J. Locke , Maude Diver , Gertrude Page , Mrs Humphrey Ward , Ethel M. Dell , Charlotte Younge , Margaret Kennedy , and many others . |
| 19 | If you 're wanting to take er early retirement and erm you 're wanting enhancement say you retire at fifty nine and you want some enhancement , can you ask for enhancement sort of up to sixty five or has it only got to be up to sixty ? |
| 20 | I 'm looking to select patients who have a high pressure and a low flow and for the sake of this study I 've drawn my lines at fifty centimetres of water for detrusor pressure during voiding and , and er fifteen mils per second . |
| 21 | He 'd retired at fifty five , to run this er small holding we 'd got you see ? |
| 22 | This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't . |
| 23 | Erm one chap thought he could cash his A B C before his pension , and he 'd actually bought a massive amount of A B C business , to retire at fifty five . |
| 24 | And of course if he does n't retire at fifty five , the authority or , or the school , his A B C's just destroyed his pension . |
| 25 | Any advance on fifty eight pound for the lot ? going in at fifty eight pounds . |
| 26 | It 's going in at fifty eight pound . |
| 27 | They 're going in at fifty pounds the lot , at fifty pounds . |
| 28 | They 're going in at fifty pounds the lot , at fifty pounds . |
| 29 | Alright Are you all finished now , they 're going in at fifty pound . |
| 30 | Going in at fifty five pounds . |