Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you 'd have to ask at least five would n't you ? |
| 2 | But he 'd have to wait at least another 2 and a half hours — that 's how long Mae Luz 's flight from Manila was delayed . |
| 3 | Sadly , there was no Marmite and no honey , we were told , and we 'd have to wait at least 20 minutes . |
| 4 | And I expect if your father had n't died she 'd have had at least twenty children ! |
| 5 | To capture the social aspects of deixis , we would need to add at least one further dimension , say of relative rank , in which the speaker is socially higher , lower or equal to the addressee and other persons that might be referred to . |
| 6 | For that to begin to come about , a challenger would need to attract at least 70 MPs to vote for him or abstain . |
| 7 | According to the draft rules , a candidate would need to win at least 200 out of 300 votes to secure election in the first round or in a second round five days later . |
| 8 | One proposal — which eventually fell through — involved the Butterley Company protecting the employer by agreeing to sell no land within five miles of the villages , thereby preventing any other sources of work being established , while the factory-owner would guarantee to take at least 65 per cent of his workforce from Ollerton . |
| 9 | She therefore would like to see at least two or three days where her weight drops below her starting weight , maybe by 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) . |
| 10 | On a conservative reckoning she would have to live at least another fifty years in this bland and dreary universe . |
| 11 | Its President would be directly elected : for election he or she would have to receive at least 50 per cent of total votes cast nationally , andmoreover receive at least this percentage in a majority of states , and might not serve more than two consecutive five-year terms . |
| 12 | One must be conscious of the pressures under which local authority social workers operate , particularly in boroughs such as that with which this case is concerned , but nonetheless one might have hoped that the letter would have received at least some acknowledgement . |
| 13 | ‘ Break the will , if you would not damn the child ’ — and damnation was a very present and real risk , in an age when most families would have lost at least one infant and often several . |
| 14 | In real combat he would have lost at least one leg at the knee . |
| 15 | The robbers would have needed at least 16 large suitcases to carry off the cash , said bank spokesman , Jean-Claude Bach . |
| 16 | George could have cabled Maxim , but that would have meant a cypher clerk at each end reading the material , and a letter by diplomatic bag would have taken at least thirty-six hours . |
| 17 | He carried out the raid on the night of 24 December and would have taken at least three days to return to Jalo . |
| 18 | Faye would have taken at least half an hour . ’ |
| 19 | It has not been possible to produce a diagram modelling our use of information services — it would have required at least four dimensions to deal with the different aspects . |
| 20 | That would take exercising at least three to five times a week . ’ |
| 21 | If we were to purchase the Sharp machine we would require to purchase at least one other lens , and probably two , which would require additional operator work and still not provide the flexibility of the zoom lens facility . |