Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] least [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , virtually all were designed at least partially to house people and jobs from the older urban cores . |
| 2 | The wooden houses off Blackfriars Street , already referred to ( p. 51 ) , were ultimately rebuilt at least twice in masonry , and it is interesting to observe that there was little change in the original property boundaries through to post-Roman times , despite changes in use . |
| 3 | Speedier technological change will increase the need for most people to retrain at least once during their working life , which should mean more jobs for teachers of all sorts . |
| 4 | Secondly , the programme posed at least as many questions as it answered . |
| 5 | If possible , try to adjust at least partially to the local time of your destination by going to bed one or two hours earlier each night and getting up one or two hours earlier each day . |
| 6 | As Arendt has pointed out , ‘ In all these cases , legitimacy derives from something outside the range of human deeds ; it is either not man-made at all … or has at least not been made by those who happen to be in power . ’ |
| 7 | This dire short-term market squeeze has at least temporarily put paid to the idea that the building society industry is making a graceful adaptation to the 1980s ' deregulation of the financial services market . |
| 8 | Although the definitive Regulations have still to be introduced , the Government 's long awaited Statement — issued in December — concerning the training requirements of the Food Safety Act 1990 , has at least partly cleared the air . |
| 9 | This directed graph has a significant property which is common in real tasks : At almost all nodes , the node has at least as many children as parents , and several nodes have more children than parents . |
| 10 | The DoE 's claimed justification for this last step was medical advice from the DHSS , although , as we have seen , this interpretation owes at least as much to administrative convenience as to scientific advice . |
| 11 | In the Tudor and Stuart era , judging by the evidence of parish registers , court depositions and diaries , most people moved at least once in their lives . |
| 12 | On the evidence of church court depositions , Professor Clark has suggested that in the early eighteenth century six out of ten males moved at least once in their lives . |
| 13 | Three out of four country women moved at least once . |
| 14 | Those cuts apply not only to the group of people whom the Conservatives would like to have us believe are claimants — the little group of scroungers whom Labour Members wish to prosecute at least as much as Conservative Members do , because of the vast number of people in need who are tarred with the ’ scroungers ’ brush that the Government choose to use . |
| 15 | Most experienced anglers know of fish being caught at least twice on the same day but the tale of Dead Eye Dick , the pike from Sutton Coldfield , takes a lot of beating . |
| 16 | Follow-up research has shown that 95% of all successful course members found at least hourly paid part-time teaching posts either after completion of the course or increasingly during the course . |
| 17 | Most employers ' schemes are ‘ contracted out ’ of SERPS which means that the employer has agreed to provide at least as much from his scheme as you would receive from SERPS . |
| 18 | Every point on the Earth 's surface between these two latitudes was imaged at least once every 18 days by Landsats 1–3 , and is imaged every 16 days by Landsats 4 and 5 . |
| 19 | Whether or not the avoidable harm , injury , and suffering should then be called ‘ crime ’ is a point legal theorists then dance on for ever ; but a ‘ crime ’ by any other name causes at least just as much pain and grief . |
| 20 | I 'll put my money that you will get fined at least once this year . |
| 21 | However , to be on the safe side , we will find the value of resistor that will yield at least twice this value . |
| 22 | A group of , say , four machines gives you a pretty good chance of hitting where you want at least once every turn . |
| 23 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 24 | Suppose we get 204 , giving herd B ; the second of the systematic sample will be 204 + 293 = 497 which gives herd F. By this means we always obtain two different primaries unless one of the primaries accounts for more than half the secondaries , in which case that primary has to appear at least once . |
| 25 | Throughout the whole period of Harold Wilson 's first premiership , and a substantial portion of his second premiership , I visited at least once a fortnight and sometimes once a week . |
| 26 | Usually happens at least twice a term . |
| 27 | Law and order became increasingly to be used as symbol for the moral and economic decay of the country and this was reinforced by the use of the latent racism of the working class in the publicity given to muggers which was presented at least implicitly as a black crime ( see Hall et al . |
| 28 | They require flushing at least twice a year . |
| 29 | Do not the other eleven deserve at least as much attention , even compassion ? |
| 30 | Teachers have family pressures , young children of their own to cope with — about whose education they worry at least as much as other parents . |