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    Use "at present" in a sentence

    at present example sentences

    at present


    1. Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians


    2. How much net worth you have at present?


    3. At present there is only one set; the previous occupant having omitted to return the second set when Stephen bought the house


    4. ‘James isn’t in at present … but he’ll be back shortly


    5. ‘… and that is only an estimate at present


    6. … I’m tied up two days a week with ‘Mack & Mabel’ at present so they’re out … how would Tuesdays be? I’ve got Abi here for a piano lesson at 4


    7. 'Australia is touring India at present, right?' Ish said as the waiter packed our


    8. This time it was Belle who interrupted, “Forgive me but, this is a matter of 'tradition'? That's what this comes down to? Tradition? Perhaps you have failed to fully appreciate the uniqueness of the situation we are at present engaged


    9. Next time … hmmm … although she didn’t repudiate the idea that she would need to take refuge in the house at some time in the future, at present, there was little sign that it would be necessary soon


    10. The families have been informed and we are, at present, dealing with the incident with the utmost urgency

    11. It seems he has nowhere to go at present and no money either


    12. Finally, assuring himself with the satisfaction that all things would eventually be known, which were at present simply unknown and not in the realm of the unknowable, he rested


    13. Her name was Sarah Bunker and she was at present between teaching assignments and condescended to accept the Tahoe City's invitation to start-up their fledgling school


    14. Her employer as a friend (who is my employer at present) approached her if she has any relative to recommend to her to take care on her expected baby


    15. I found out that parts for the Boeing 777 are particularly scarce at present, making this a plausible motive


    16. This is all that I think necessary to be observed at present concerning the deviations, whether occasional or permanent, of the market price of commodities from the natural price


    17. Potatoes, for example, do not at present, through the greater part of the kingdom, cost half the price which they used to do thirty or forty years ago


    18. In fact, at present there was only a handful of mages who were of the Sixth


    19. When such occupiers were more numerous than they are at present, they are said to have been


    20. wages, when he came to be a complete workman, would be much less than at present

    21. pounds a-year is reckoned at present very good pay for a curate; and, notwithstanding this act


    22. colleges, in which education is carried on, was more reasonable than it is at present through


    23. Their ordinary price, at present, is about three times greater than at the beginning of the century, and the rents of many Highland estates have been tripled and quadrupled in the same time


    24. Holland is at present in this situation; and a considerable part of ancient Italy seems to have been so during the prosperity of the Romans


    25. Through the greater part of Europe, a kitchen garden is not at present supposed to deserve a better inclosure than mat recommended by Columella


    26. In France, the anxiety of the proprietors of the old vineyards to prevent the planting of any new ones, seems to favour their opinion, and to indicate a consciousness in those who must have the experience, that this species of cultivation is at present in that country more profitable than any other


    27. It seems, at the same time, however, to indicate another opinion, that this superior profit can last no longer than the laws which at present restrain the free cultivation of the vine


    28. Should this root ever become in any part of Europe, like rice in some rice countries, the common and favourite vegetable food of the people, so as to occupy the same proportion of the lands in tillage, which wheat and other sorts of grain for human food do at present, the same quantity of cultivated land would maintain a much greater number of people ; and the labourers being generally fed with potatoes, a greater surplus would remain after replacing all the stock, and maintaining all the labour employed in cultivation


    29. Population would increase, and rents would rise much beyond what they are at present


    30. Before the discovery of the Spanish West Indies, the most fertile mines in Europe may have afforded as great a rent to their proprietors as the richest mines in Peru do at present

    31. In 1554, by the 1st and 2nd of Philip and Mary, and in 1558, by the 1st of Elizabeth, the exportation of wheat was in the same manner prohibited, whenever the price of the quarter should exceed six shillings and eightpence, which did not then contain two penny worth more silver than the same nominal sum does at present


    32. In 1562, therefore, by the 5th of Elizabeth, the exportation of wheat was allowed from certain ports, whenever the price of the quarter should not exceed ten shillings, containing nearly the same quantity of silver as the like nominal sum does at present


    33. But in 1562, the year at which he ends with it, it contained no more than the same nominal sum does at present


    34. How far the bounty could produce this effect at any time I shall examine hereafter: I shall only observe at present, that between 1688 and 1700, it had not time to produce any such effect


    35. In the course of the present century, the silver coin has not at any time been more below its standard weight than it is at present


    36. But in the beginning of the present century, that is, immediately after the great recoinage in King William's time, the greater part of the current silver coin must have been still nearer to its standard weight than it is at present


    37. The country gentlemen, who then composed a still greater proportion of the legislature than they do at present, had felt that the money price of corn was falling


    38. I shall only observe at present, that this rise in the value of silver, in proportion to that of corn, has not been peculiar to England


    39. After all the wonderful tales which have been published concerning the splendid state of those countries in ancient times, whoever reads, with any degree of sober judgment, the history of their first discovery and conquest, will evidently discern that, in arts, agriculture, and commerce, their inhabitants were much more ignorant than the Tartars of the Ukraine are at present


    40. At present, the value of the tea annually imported by the English East India company, for the use of their own countrymen, amounts to more than a million and a half a year; and even this is not enough; a great deal more being constantly smuggled into the country from the ports of Holland, from Gottenburgh in Sweden, and from the coast of France, too, as long as the French East India company was in prosperity

    41. become so fashionable as to sell for twenty guineas a-piece, no effort of human industry could increase the number of those brought to market, much beyond what it is at present


    42. The real value of silver was higher at Rome, for sometime before, and after the fall of the republic, than it is through the greater part of Europe at present


    43. The value of silver, therefore, in those ancient times, must have been to its value in the present, as three to four inversely ; that is, three ounces of silver would then have purchased the same quantity of labour and commodities which four ounces will do at present


    44. If venison continues in fashion, and the wealth and luxury of Great Britain increase as they have done for some time past, its price may very probably rise still higher than it is at present


    45. In most parts of Great Britain it is at present somewhat higher


    46. In those ancient times, a tod of wool would have purchased twice the quantity of subsistence which it will purchase at present, and consequently twice the quantity of labour, if the real recompence of labour had been the same in both periods


    47. Its nominal price was a good deal lower than at present


    48. An ox hide, therefore, would in those times have purchased as much corn as ten shillings and threepence would purchase at present


    49. But at half-a-crown the stone, which at this moment (February 1773) I understand to be the common price, such a hide would at present cost only ten shillings


    50. The price of raw hides is a good deal lower at present than it was a few years ago; owing probably to the taking off the duty upon seal skins, and to the allowing, for a limited time, the importation of raw hides from Ireland, and from the plantations, duty free, which was done in 1769














































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