Example sentences of "[prep] at most " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , despite the fact that a National Government led by MacDonald was the preferred choice of at most one of the three party leaders , the King now knew that both Baldwin and Samuel would be prepared to serve under MacDonald , were the latter willing to continue as Prime Minister . |
| 2 | ( Psychologists believe that the human mind remembers information in batches or chunks of at most about eight items . |
| 3 | In 1621 the French mathematician Bachet de Meziriac observed that apparently every positive number could be expressed as a sum of at most four squares . |
| 4 | The German mathematician Karl Jacobi found a beautiful connection between the number of ways in which a given positive integer can be written as a sum of at most four squares and the sum of the numbers that divide it . |
| 5 | Actually Jacobi 's work went rather further than that , for he also found a way of calculating the number of expressions as sums of at most six or eight squares . |
| 6 | The prize problem was to fill the gap between Jacobi 's results by finding the number of expressions as a sum of at most five squares . |
| 7 | One , which asserts that to each s ε Z+ there corresponds k(s) ε Z+ such that each positive integer is expressible as a sum of at most k(s) positive integral sth powers , was first proved by Hilbert ( in 1909 ! ) . |
| 8 | Of course , the various families of homoclinic orbits to the origin can not cross ( at any point in parameter space the two trajectories which tend in backward time to the origin are unique and can be part of at most one homoclinic orbit ) and the dotted lines representing homoclinic orbits to the points also can not cross ( for similar reasons ) . |
| 9 | Proponents claim that the plant goes a long way toward addressing the heavily oil dependent state 's energy needs , and , would entail the destruction of at most 2 percent of the Wao Kele tract . |
| 10 | WITH at most one new work a year to his name , Jonathan Burrows is hardly a prolific choreographer . |
| 11 | The collection 's freshest , best piece ( the aforementioned ‘ Stop Me ’ ) is a surreal challenge directed by Tim Broad to spot the real Moz amongst the clones ( a game you can amuse yourself with at most Moz gigs , incidentally ) . |
| 12 | But more significantly the development and widespread availability of pre-designed packages , such as OCP ( the Oxford Concordance Package ) for concordance construction , and SPSS ( Statistical Package for Social Sciences ) for statistical analysis , meant that it was possible for the humanist to become more independent of the computing experts , and to operate with at most low-level assistance . |
| 13 | Here , there were workshops ( e.g. in Leicester , and also in Verulamium ) , but these were small scale affairs , with at most four attested products and little indication of any more widespread organisational significance . |
| 14 | The subgroup of positions generated by the three slice moves , FB , UD and RL , has only 768 patterns and one can soon find a simple way to return to the pristine cube from any one of these positions in at most seven slice moves . |
| 15 | There is a method of solving the cube , due to Morwen Thistlethwaite , my colleague at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in London , that always restores the cube in at most 50 moves ( recently reduced from 52 ) and simple counting shows that some positions require at least 18 moves ( counting 180° turns as single moves ) or 21 right-angle turns . |
| 16 | For the complete cube , the results so far lead us to believe that one can always restore the cube in at most about 22 moves . |
| 17 | A stand of rosebay willow-herb ( Epilobium angustifolium ) , for example , with its striking tall spikes of pink flowers looks attractive for at most four months of the year . |
| 18 | Dovercourt was designed for at most 500 residents but was providing for up to twice as many . |
| 19 | In 1960 James published a personal study of his time with the P.N.M. , ‘ Party Politics ’ , in which he managed a retort to Dr.Williams that was equally as terse but considerably more acerbic : ‘ In my time here I have ‘ discussed ’ socialism with Dr.Williams for at most three minutes . ’ |
| 20 | Exercise 9–3 Consider a model where people live for at most three periods and plan to spread their consumption equally over the three periods . |
| 21 | The ‘ crisis ’ is now a crisis for at most two or three large US banks , which have good reason to believe they can count on government help if worse comes to worst . |
| 22 | But the class and regional differences — linguistic and cultural — of the Caribbean have been maintained in Britain for at most one generation in their original form . |
| 23 | For a perfectly balanced tree , also known as an AVL tree1 , the height of the two branches should differ by at most one level . |
| 24 | Considering the clones hit by at most N probes , the number of neighbours for any probe must not exceed 2 ( N — 1 ) . |