Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] at an " in BNC.
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| 1 | They began selling at an early age , certainly before 10 years of age . |
| 2 | They had stopped at an inn close to Minster Lovell to buy a grand meal and sup a few tankards of ale . |
| 3 | Surely the fact that teachers are at the ‘ formal operational ’ stage does not mean that they prefer to discuss at an abstract level ! |
| 4 | At the close of the seventeenth century , however , towns and villages in certain industrial regions started to grow , and despite a setback in the 1720s they continued to expand at an astonishing rate throughout each decade of the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | The exploration of the American west revealed many such areas , and efforts to preserve them had begun at an early stage . |