Example sentences of "[prep] least a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though chronic hepatitis C appears to be an indolent disease in most patients , the observation that at least a fifth develop cirrhosis and as many as a quarter progress to liver failure indicates that chronic hepatitis C is not a benign disease . |
| 2 | This would suggest that around 30 per cent of the " living-out " labouring classes were to some extent skilled , but if living-in servants of all classes are included the proportion would shrink to a quarter and if unskilled " manufacturers " are removed , we can conclude that at least a fifth of the men of the labouring classes of the eighteenth century were more or less skilled , that is had something other than " common " labour power to offer on the labour market . |
| 3 | be at least a fifty fifty |
| 4 | The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland , formed at the time of the abolition of the Stormont parliament , represents those catholics , protestants , and others who disavow the twin alliance of Ireland but retain at least a practical attitude on sovereignty . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the concept of a belt in which the signs of Variscan compression rapidly die out northwards is , if neither scientifically correct nor consistent , at least a practical one and firmly entrenched , and it is in this general sense that the term is used in this paper . |
| 6 | At least a million people of working age migrated to the the South East during the inter-war period , and Wales , as a whole , lost both its natural increase in population and an actual loss of about 450,000 people . |
| 7 | There are perhaps 36 skulls in all and there were at least a million Armenian dead . |
| 8 | This should not happen for at least a million years … but there is an outside chance that it could happen tomorrow . ) |
| 9 | Vega-built B–17G N3509G had undergone an intensive maintenance and restoration programme at World Jet Inc in Florida and looked at least a million dollars , but the bidding slowed at $900,000 . |
| 10 | Unemployment remained high , and it was estimated that at any one time at least a million men were without work . |
| 11 | Where revolutionary committees existed much of their impetus reflected the organizing ability of the party which , by capitalizing on the natural and man-made disasters of flood and terrible famine which may have left at least a million dead , and on Vietminh seizure and distribution of rice from guarded granaries , was able to discredit existing authority , both French and Japanese . |
| 12 | But that is nothing compared to the inflation that seems to have occurred in the early universe : an increase in size by a factor of at least a million million million million million times in a tiny fraction of a second . |
| 13 | The probability of a quark gaining sufficient energy is so low that one is likely to have to wait at least a million million million million million years ( 1 followed by thirty zeros ) . |
| 14 | genetic engineering and spare-part surgery — is beginning to offer hopes of , if not immortality , then at least a major extension of lifespan . |
| 15 | I , I used to drive Sheena , but I can safely say that I live on the A seventy seven , aggression is equally as bad as drinking driving , because you see it happening on that road every day , aggression they cut out they cut in , you do n't know where their coming from , er at least a drunken driver tries to go straight and make 's the mistake |
| 16 | His training schedule includes at least a two to three mile run every night , when he pounds the streets around his home in Penkull |
| 17 | They needed at least a two goal win to reach the international stages of the competition . |
| 18 | However , at least a new generation of diesel unit was in mind . |
| 19 | They seized the opportunity for independence or at least a new bargain with Moscow — regardless of whatever views might be held by the silent masses . |
| 20 | Likewise , ‘ moral rectitude , social conformity , clean living , and a clean rent book on occasion seem to be essential for eligibility for at least a new house ’ ( Central Housing Advisory Committee , 1969 , p. 32 ) — qualifications that a woman left on her own with dependants on a low income or social security benefit may well find hard to fulfil . |
| 21 | Suddenly I wanted freedom … or at least a new master to serve . |
| 22 | All regions have now drawn up at least a first round of projects for inclusion on the shopping lists . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , several of the experimental novelists mentioned above actually began their careers in the 1930s ; Samuel Beckett , Lawrence Durrell , Malcolm Lowry , Flann O'Brien and Jean Rhys each having published at least a first novel by the time Finnegans Wake appeared in 1939 . |
| 24 | Yet it also represented at least a first step towards an institutional framework for dialogue between State and commoners . |
| 25 | TRADITIONAL Commonwealth growers of bananas in the Caribbean and their importers , such as Fyffes and Geest , will breathe at least a temporary sigh of relief after the European Commission finally made up its mind to extend the present quota-based system in the single market next year . |
| 26 | Progress becomes slower as the front face of the square-cut buttress is neared , and the though provoking and insecure terrain usually brings at least a temporary halt to the proceedings . |
| 27 | Literally hours before the Shah was about to be bundled off to South Africa , the Rockefeller-Kissinger connection had finally found him at least a temporary haven — the Bahamas . |
| 28 | In initiating my original purchase I incur an obligation to make a payment in money , but I in turn have to have a source from which I can acquire the money in the first place , and this will , directly or indirectly , put me into at least a temporary relationship with a great variety of people , including the reader who purchased this book from a bookstall and paid out money , some small fraction of which will eventually find its way back to myself . |
| 29 | Research institutes seem to have found at least a temporary solution to their problems . |
| 30 | Towards the end of the century the bourgeoisie discovered at least a temporary formula for combining getting and spending , cushioned by the acquisitions of the past . |