Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb -s] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except where marriage occurs at a very young age , the earlier a woman marries , the younger she is when she bears her first child , and the more children she has when she reaches the end of her reproductive years , other things being equal . |
| 2 | Moreover , it 's surely no coincidence that PWI comes at a time when anti-trust allegations against Microsoft are reportedly still under investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission . |
| 3 | Probability of life arising on a planet ( in , say , a billion years ) , if we assume that life arises at a rate of about once per solar system . |
| 4 | Both glans and prepuce are covered by stratified squamous epithelium , and separation occurs at a variable time from before birth to several years afterwards by desquamation . |
| 5 | On Dec. 5 , 1990 , the Commission put forward proposals to make it illegal for certain airlines to agree on standard fares or to distribute all available take-off and landing slots at a particular airport among themselves . |
| 6 | Probability of life arising on a planet if life arises at a rate of about once per galaxy . |
| 7 | The chances of achieving great things with your puppy increases if training begins at an early age . |
| 8 | The Banks have also agreed to give the IBOA information on staff and payroll costs at an early date . |
| 9 | But consciousness comes at a price , and the price is banishment from the Garden . |
| 10 | Because incense burns at an even rate and without flame , it is well suited for measuring the division of the religious day and for other purposes . |
| 11 | A. This argues that , since information arrives at an uneven rate , the observed distribution of futures price changes ( or returns ) will be a mixture of a number of normal distributions , and this observed distribution will be leptokurtic . |
| 12 | While Des raps at a flaky green door , a train rumbles overhead , going south , and I wonder if they heard him knocking inside . |
| 13 | It 's mildly encouraging now , though , when Tod looks at a woman in the street . |