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Used to describe where something is, or when saying something's position I am at home. Let's meet at the pub! The time at which something happened or will happen Breakfast is at 9 o'clock. At 5pm we went home. Indicating something's state At half price! Water boils at high temperatures.

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The @ symbol, used to replace at support@microsoft.com is an email address. Apples @ £1.50 per kilogram.

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100 at equal 1 kip in Laos

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(= astatine) a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium

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astatine atomic number 85

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Simple sentences

I'm at a loss for words.
For some reason I feel more alive at night.
Look at me when I talk to you!
At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.
I can't cut my nails and do the ironing at the same time!
We can travel through time. And we do at the remarkable rate of one second per second.
Did you fall in love with her at first sight?
You must go home at once.
You must be back on Sunday at the latest.
You must practice it at regular intervals.
You must do it at once.
You'd better set off at once.
Back in high school, I got up at 6 a.m. every morning.
That is somewhat explained at the end.
If you look at the lyrics, they don't really mean much.
If you look at the song's lyrics, they really don't mean much.
Thanks for having explained to me at last why people take me for an idiot.
You could at least try to be a bit more polite, even though it's not like you.
I wish I could care more about my grades but it seems that, at a certain point of my life, I decided they wouldn't be so important anymore.
It may be that the happiness awaiting us is not at all the sort of happiness we would want.
It is not rare at all to live over ninety years.
Life without love has no meaning at all.
Look at me when I'm talking to you.
After that, I left, but then I realized that I forgot my backpack at their house.
I'm at the hospital. I got struck by lightning.

Movie subtitles

Right? Right? Australia, at Melbourne.
Why'd you piss at stranger's house?
When I look at it we can't praise you enough!
But I'm not someone that anyone would like at first sight.
We don't have much food, but do you want to eat at my house?
But why did he look at me that way?
At least in an emergency leave.
You were at the radio?
I'm surprised at how quickly you decided, brother.
You won't answer anyone's questions at all, but you'll ask me questions, huh?
At this rate, the loyalty of us, the Purists, will be questioned.
At any rate, it's a fact that Sir Jeremiah is guilty.
So she's at it again today.
At that time. for us 10 year olds, the world appeared to be a very sad place.
What? You won't answer anyone's questions at all, but you'll ask me questions, huh?
Oh. So she's at it again today.
That's why. I would at least like a world without war. A place where we won't lose dear ones.
From today on, I will be a student at Ashford Academy.
At least let me come with you!
This isn't like Euphemia at all.
We are at the Centre.
But, Nicolaus Copernicus came and said that the Sun stood at the Centre and that we moved around it.
Galileo made a telescope and pointed it at the sky in 1610.
We became usedto it and knew no better than the Sun stood at the Centre and we orbited around it.
It was published in three thick volumes. A copy can be found at the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen.
It was this big achievement that lead Kapteyn to first distinguish himself at that time.
Well, let me take a look at 'em.
No, no, they wouldn't see me at all.
The thing is, usually I'm good at keeping secrets, but it feels weird keeping things from Nick.
Nick was never really mad at me.
Me and my crew hang out at the top of the slide so I can see what's going on in the whole yard, most of which I control.
Look at what they did to us?
It was like she was, like, mad at me for something.
So the game was continued at morning recess the next day.
But nobody scored then either, so it was continued at lunch.
It gets dark at seven.
In autumn it gets dark at seven.
In winter it gets dark at five.
In spring it gets dark at seven.
In summer it gets dark at nine.

News and current affairs

As a visiting professor at Harvard and MIT, I am getting a good preview of what the world could look like when the crisis finally passes.
No doubt, millions of people at the end of the war were too hungry and exhausted to do anything much beyond staying alive.
But, at the same time, a wave of idealism swept across the wreckage, a collective sense of determination to build a more equal, peaceful, and safer world.
But the 1945 consensus was dealt a much greater blow precisely when we all rejoiced at the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the other great twentieth-century tyranny.
Neoliberalism filled the vacuum, creating vast wealth for some people, but at the expense of the ideal of equality that had emerged from World War II.
For everyone else, a kind of state of emergency was proclaimed that has allowed state interference in essential civil rights. Controls at borders have become an ordeal for many, and police persecution now burdens quite a few.
Any train accident or airplane crash is now at first suspected of being an act of terrorism.
But the West's key features, democracy and the rule of law, have taken a far more severe battering at the hands of their defenders than by their attackers.
Terrorists continue to be outliers with limited appeal at best.
Indeed, our research shows that when mutual-recognition agreements include restrictive rules of origin, intra-regional trade increases - at the expense of trade with other countries - and that developing countries tend to suffer most.
First, funds from different sources of finance are interchangeable to a certain degree: deficiency of funds for one component of total debt can be supplemented by surplus funds originally aimed at financing other components.
Since he first appeared at the side of Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the late 1940's during the struggle for Jewish statehood and sovereignty, few people could articulate the Zionist and later the Israeli case with comparable eloquence and conviction.
At a time when public debate in Israel is torn between pseudo-religious nationalist fanatics and anti-Zionists masquerading as post-modernists, the moral certitudes of Eban, for all their urbanity, may sound shallow.
Crown Prince Abdullah's initiative is meant to be made official during a speech at the Arab League summit in Beirut of 27-28 March.
Today, with interest rates near or at record lows in many countries, it is relatively cheap to speculate in gold instead of investing in bonds.
At the start of the crisis, many people likened it to 1982 or 1973, which was reassuring, because both dates refer to classical cyclical downturns.
My father was involved with the United States space program, and we had some moon rocks at home, so I thought it was no big deal.
Jeff Greason, a senior manager at Intel, started XCOR Aerospace (in which I'm an investor).
Controls at borders have become an ordeal for many, and police persecution now burdens quite a few.
Cutting these programs will lower American economic growth in the long term, with negative consequences both at home and abroad.
At the time (2008-2009), large international banks had to be rescued by their home countries' governments when they ran into trouble.
At the same time, emerging-market central banks need to accumulate gold reserves, which they still hold in far lower proportion than do rich-country central banks.
A couple of weeks later, I was faced with one of those conflicts: a board meeting here, a conference there, another opportunity at the same time somewhere else.