Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , we reached the stage where she could avoid it altogether a few days before a period , but she continued to drink one or two small cups a day at other times . |
| 2 | SCOTTISH pound notes are saving hard-up guests a fortune at Asian weddings . |
| 3 | Corrigan gives Pears specialist coaching one day a week at Ayresome Park . |
| 4 | Now they are to lose their income support and housing benefit and allowed to borrow £420 a year at inflation-rate interest . |
| 5 | Now they are to lose their income support and housing benefit and allowed to borrow £420 a year at inflation-rate interest . |
| 6 | The Social Work Services Group and the ESRC will each contribute £50,000 a year at current prices towards the costs of the Centre , which consists of a Director and three or four full-time researchers . |
| 7 | The rains have been good this year , and the crop has been bumper , but tobacco is fetching only 93 American cents a kilo at international auctions — less than half the price expected . |
| 8 | This is an extra allowance , worth £1,720 a year at current rates , specially given to widows to assist them over the first difficult period . |
| 9 | In Lewisham an attempt at large scale multi-disciplinary intervention to rehabilitate residents of such a hostel had only been able to move on a fifth of their treatment group after a year ( Timms , 1990 ) . |
| 10 | If they are to give Great Britain a game at Old Trafford on Saturday week , Tony Gordon , Lowe 's successor as New Zealand coach , may have to swallow his pride and call up the likes of Emosi Koloto , Joe Grima and Tony Iro , who appear to have blighted their international chances by making their reputations in England . |
| 11 | The EC has also put forward an advisory , non-binding , maximum figure that would work out at about 87.5p a gallon at current rates . |
| 12 | ‘ But working with the private sector has enriched the curriculum and given pupils a look at real-life problems . ’ |
| 13 | In Dundee , a former jute mill has been converted into 72 flats , while in Edinburgh a scheme at High Street/Bell Street is creating 172 flats in former bonded warehouses . |
| 14 | The differences in daily activity pattern give predators an advantage at different times , so that diurnal raptors have the advantage during the day , and nocturnal species the advantage during the night . |
| 15 | V : Cockerell , inventor of the hovercraft , for making crossing the Channel a reality at long last . |
| 16 | On this occasion , the guests were predominantly French , the music predominantly English and the dinner a sit-down at small tables of eight . |