Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at least " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the transactions are found to be lawful and enforceable and interest rates remain high , the council stands to lose at least £69.1 million - the estimated negative value of its portfolio in February . |
| 2 | Every local and family historian needs to acquire at least a working knowledge of the history of religious dissent in his selected region and a familiarity with the national background . |
| 3 | This means that average household size in Great Britain fell from about 3.21 to about 2.56 persons over this period and this decline is expected to continue at least until to the end of the century ( Social Trends 10 , 1979 , Table 2.3 ; General Household Survey 1985 , 1987 , Table 3.11 ; Department of the Environment , 1986a ) . |
| 4 | Because brokers ' charges are high for small deals , you will need to invest at least £1000 in each . |
| 5 | Though the evidence for so precise a statement is not at all clear , he does also present two pieces of documentary evidence which appear to provide at least a probable terminus post and ante quem respectively for the appointment . |
| 6 | ITV and Scottish Television have a contract for TV coverage , but the project needs to attract at least £15m in sponsorship and advertising of various kinds . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | To maintain satisfactory progress , a part-time student has to pass at least one course each year . |
| 9 | Figures are sketchy but all these categories combined appear to total at least 100m , or over 9% of the Chinese population — nearly 20% of the adult population . |
| 10 | The problems of the British social formation were sufficiently pressing to demand at least rhetorical radical solutions from the parties ( Wilson 's ‘ planning ’ , Heath 's ‘ free market ’ ) , and governments ' failures to match their promises were of sufficient concern to the people to breed a serious disillusionment with party politics , yet I submit that for most people of all classes the problems were not considered so urgent as to demand a really radical questioning of existing social relations , with all the risks that would entail . |
| 11 | For that to begin to come about , a challenger would need to attract at least 70 MPs to vote for him or abstain . |
| 12 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies perhaps and even larger and larger growth and more and more specialised information , which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 13 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies and even larger and larger growth in more and more specialised information which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 14 | Osborne , a 20-year-old crane driver of Leicester , was recommended to serve at least 10 years . |
| 15 | Anyway , ’ he told her , ‘ anyone who learns to sail has to experience at least one ducking . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mr Gandhi needs to win at least 200 seats nationally to be reasonably certain of being called on to form the next government . |
| 18 | It would need to look at least at the two following decades . |
| 19 | Plastic containers , cans and trays line our shop shelves and we have come to expect at least two-fold wrapping and a carrier bag to boot . |
| 20 | Specifically , LIFESPAN is designed to avoid at least two fundamental problems : |
| 21 | You will also need to use at least part of this milk with your cereal breakfasts . |
| 22 | At its official relaunch , the new party leadership promised to field at least 250 candidates , and to concentrate on " politically interesting " seats , although it admitted that it could not win any . |
| 23 | The first few weeks always included a number of experiences designed to undo at least some of the damage done to sensible language learning by our schools and universities . |
| 24 | The trial was expected to last at least a year . |
| 25 | The conference is expected to last at least three months — but by the end of it the Department of Transport may have a publically acceptable solution to Hereford 's traffic jams . |
| 26 | — The public inquiry is expected to last at least two months and three pre-inquiry meetings have been held two in Northallerton and one in Marton , Middlesbrough . |
| 27 | The inquiry runs from Tuesday to Thursday ( 10am-4.30pm ) and Friday ( 10am-2pm ) each week and is expected to last at least two months . |
| 28 | Now , by Planck 's quantum hypothesis , one can not use an arbitrarily small amount of light ; one has to use at least one quantum . |
| 29 | Repairs are expected to cost at least £4.5m and work is due to get under way in the next few weeks . |
| 30 | Bull also continued the fight with greater subtlety through the Daily Telegraph : he wrote for the Telegraph regularly in 1917 , either directly as " our political correspondent " , or indirectly by feeding information on the Bill to the paper , and this helped to keep at least one part of the Unionist press briefed with the official party line . |