Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] at least " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect everyone to go at least a second faster tomorrow , ’ said Mansell , who set the record in the penultimate lap of the session . |
| 2 | This line of thinking , however , seems to me to miss at least one major point . |
| 3 | My solicitor told me to expect at least four years because of my previous convictions : I 've got deception , deception , fraud , grievous bodily harm , assault , malicious wounding , drugs , deception and then again deception . |
| 4 | Chapters can be quite long , and that means I need enough of a working memory in the computer gubbins itself to handle at least 6,000 words at a time . |
| 5 | At three in the morning she went forlornly to bed , promising herself to get at least one room painted tomorrow . |
| 6 | John 's gruelling daily schedule requires him to walk at least 15 miles every day carrying a 40lb rucksack to maintain an average 154 miles per week . |
| 7 | He has not done enough to satisfy the hardliners in the City who wanted him to take at least £2.5 billion out of the economy in 1993-94 . |
| 8 | I was sure that my mother neither understood nor agreed with what Lili was saying , but the mention of these classic works of literature compelled her to reveal at least her knowledge of their existence . |
| 9 | At many clubs it is compulsory for everyone to have at least one dual flight at the beginning of the season before flying solo again . |
| 10 | I did choose it in my first book , The Selfish Gene , so I thought that here I would fly a kite for a somewhat less-fashionable theory ( although it recently has started gaining ground ) , which seems to me to have at least a sporting chance of being right . |
| 11 | Although the computer industry enjoys getting into a tizzy about the ever-increasing number of processors , anyone buying a 386SX 18 months ago would have wanted it to last at least three years . |
| 12 | You will see that we intend sending a leaflet to each member with the summer edition of Rural Wales , with the plea that they use it to recruit at least one new member . |
| 13 | I , I says , I 'll let you know sometime today or tomorrow and er anyway , he was expecting me to say at least two or three or four weeks you know er because I 'd put the situation I had no tools , no nothing and erm I er had a look at it and I thought what I could do , and I says I can let you have them in a week . |
| 14 | In response , a growing body of clergy and laity , on both sides of the Atlantic , are committing themselves to dedicate at least one hour a day to prayer for the renewal and growth of the Church and for the transformation of society . |
| 15 | However , he also pointed out that the government 's policy of combining " actions of immediate relief with medium-term rehabilitation " was starting to show results , the distribution of seeds and tools to displaced people allowing them to produce at least some of their own food . |
| 16 | None of the theories proposed for the phenomenon is wholly satisfactory but there is evidence that requires us to accept at least some aspects of several of them . |
| 17 | Both national survey data and smaller in-depth studies now enable us to document at least some of the financial effects of care-giving on women , although we still know very little about the consequences for women who begin or continue to give care in their own old age , or about the experiences of Black women carers . |
| 18 | And then lastly there is an obligation on us to review at least annually , the position of our advisors . |
| 19 | Will the Minister introduce in the near future proposals enabling us to have at least as many national holidays as other European countries ? |