Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LYRIC FANTASY , one of the fastest two-year-old fillies of the modern era , was last night sold for 340,000 guineas at public auction . |
| 2 | Mr Justice Roch said the court would start early at 10am and adjourn for 30 minutes at hourly intervals to allow the interpreters to rest and to ensure the defendant had understood the evidence . |
| 3 | After 10 years at top level , it 's a pity that Ben still has n't understood that you can never be the best climber sin the world , because there is always someone who will do something better in a given area of the sport . |
| 4 | He wo n't go back to divisional work after ten years at corporate level . |
| 5 | Pompey caught their Italian visitors cold after 16 minutes at chilly Fratton Park with Paul Walsh 's second goal of the season . |
| 6 | Now after 23 years at Upper Heyford airbase in Oxfordshire it 's being disbanded sending it 's airmen to new jobs in America , and it 's aircraft to become museum pieces . |
| 7 | It 's his seventh award after seven years at Old Trafford , but the first under its new title . |
| 8 | It is interesting to note that many fast bowlers during the 1920s and 1930s employed a long-off when bowling to Woolley , who was also , of course , a very useful slow left-arm bowler , who could probably be entrusted to get through 10 overs at reasonable cost . |
| 9 | They have only played together for 45 minutes at international level , when Shearer scored on his debut against France nine months ago . |
| 10 | Each dock measured approximately 230 metres long by 90 metres wide and they were entered by a lock 46 metres long , 11 metres wide and with a depth on the sill of 5.20 metres at high water spring tide . |
| 11 | Last Monday , the National Association of Probation Officers published details of 22 offenders at Long Lartin prison , Worcestershire , over whose convictions there were ‘ lurking doubts and inconsistencies ’ . |
| 12 | Rhone Poulenc at Dagenham is financing the planting of 2,000 trees at nearby Eastbrook School . |
| 13 | The league consisted of four leading competitions held over a period of three months at various venues in North Yorkshire on a 10 metres high Enterprises panel wall . |
| 14 | They interviewed a random subsample of 323 adults at four-month intervals on three further occasions . |
| 15 | ‘ KINNOCK 'S dead , ’ was the dazed reaction of one dealer at National Westminster Bank 's global trading centre at about 4am on Friday , as the implications of the election results seeped through . |
| 16 | An operating range of 250 miles at full speed was required and survivor accommodation had to be greater than in the Arun class , the current large All-weather lifeboat . |
| 17 | By a vertical merger we mean the union of two firms at different production stages in the same industry , as when a car manufacturer merges with a steel producer . |
| 18 | Ross , who scored with a penalty against spirited Otago in what was a very subdued Canadian effort , also contributed a penalty and the conversion to one of two tries at close quarters by no.8 Ian Gordon against North Auckland in Whangarei . |
| 19 | the first part of the competition consisted of 24 targets at known distances , while the second day featured another 24 targets but this time the competitors did not know the distances . |
| 20 | The remainder train for three years at theological college . |
| 21 | Each sample was counted for 5 minutes at appropriate channel settings giving a minimum detectable 5 1 Cr activity of less than 0.01% of the administered dose per litre of urine . |
| 22 | Place the eggs and caster sugar in a mixing bowl and whisk with an electric whisk/mixer for 5 minutes at top speed . |
| 23 | Follow this with 22 minutes at normal training pace . |
| 24 | As a friend with three children at public school put it , ‘ My last term 's bills totalled more than the price of the wife 's new care ’ . |
| 25 | The Imperial Dry Dock measured 167.6 metres by 21.3 metres with 7.7 metres at ordinary Spring Tides over the sill . |
| 26 | Some kung fu clubs place a blindfolded student amid a circle of fellow students , who attack him with one technique at intermittent intervals . |
| 27 | The company is also using the Merseyside visit for workshops sessions with 150 students at local schools and colleges . |
| 28 | Katharine Hamnett is a contradictory , impulsive figure : a feminist who sells on sex , a vegetarian hedonist , a Labour voter with two sons at private school and a £20m turnover . |
| 29 | CONVENTIONAL TV works with two deflectors at right angles acting on an electron beam to give a two-dimensional , scanned image . |
| 30 | Run it into two uplifts at opposite ends of the tank , and pack it with filter floss and carbon . |