Example sentences of "[pron] at least [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There was enough dirt on his knees to grow potatoes , and his short trousers obviously belonged to someone at least three years younger , but he gave her a toothless grin , slid back in his seat and picked his nose . |
| 2 | I agreed and I put him under training for Mosquito , and to the best of my knowledge ( and this is only a guess ) he did over 70 sorties , got himself at least one DFC , if not two , and became a very worthwhile member of the Pathfinder Force . |
| 3 | The French and Norman lands matter most to Waleran , who can wonder that he 's gone over there and made himself at least acceptable to Geoffrey , rather than risk being dispossessed . |
| 4 | Voting was accompanied by widespread electoral violence , in which at least 80 people died and hundreds were injured . |
| 5 | Fighting eventually broke out between the demonstrators and police in which at least 80 people were injured . |
| 6 | The global level of HIV infection was expected to rise to 15-20,000,000 by 2000 , of which at least three-quarters would be in the developing world . |
| 7 | The killings produced a sombre mood at an anniversary rally in which at least 100,000 people took part . |
| 8 | The amount which the schools are allocated is determined by a formula in which at least 75 per cent is based on pupil numbers ‘ weighted ’ by the age of those pupils . |
| 9 | of the shares [ of ] which are legally and beneficially owned by such persons and of which at least 75 per cent . |
| 10 | 1983 No. 482 ) , under which at least 75 per cent . |
| 11 | of the shares [ of ] which are legally and beneficially owned by such persons and of which at least 75 per cent . |
| 12 | Prime Minister Joseph Kokou Koffigoh was seized by rebel soldiers on Dec. 3 after an attack on his residence in which at least 17 people were killed . |
| 13 | Tie Rack opened nine stores and closed four in the first half , and plans to have opened another 14 by the year-end , of which at least five will be in the UK . |
| 14 | On Sept. 25 , Gamsakhurdia threatened to impose direct presidential rule , because of shooting incidents in Tbilisi on the night of Sept. 24-25 in which at least five people died . |
| 15 | According to their scheme each SMLA consists of an urban core together with a metropolitan ring comprising the local authority areas from which at least 15 per cent of the workers commute to the urban core , while beyond the SMLA is an outer commuting ring from which at least 1 per cent of workers travel daily to the core . |
| 16 | This genetic influence is most clearly seen in the case of identical ( monozygotic ) twins in which at least one of the pair suffers from the disease . |
| 17 | It has been increased by the huge numbers of break-ups among couples in which at least one partner has been married before . |
| 18 | We studied nuclear families in which at least one member had non-insulin dependent diabetes and in which both parents and their children were available for study . |
| 19 | These figures are plotted in Fig. 7.8 , where the shaded section shows the percentage of areas from which at least one record will overflow into the independent overflow area . |
| 20 | Part of the M-forty motorway in Oxfordshire is blocked tonight after a fifteen car pile in which at least one person has died . |
| 21 | Following the elections there were outbreaks of fighting between supporters of Fatah and Hamas and between Fatah and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) in which at least two people died . |
| 22 | The following work carried out ( or directly and actively supervised ) : ( a ) either at least 60 personal injury instructions in the 5 years prior to the application or at least 36 personal injury instructions in the 3 years prior to the application — in either case , no more than half of the instructions should be in medical negligence cases ; ( b ) at least one personal injury case where the award or settlement was approved by the court because the plaintiff was under a disability , eg a child ; and ( c ) at least ten cases set down and ready for trial , of which at least two must have involved a dispute over liability . |
| 23 | One of the worst incidents was an attack on a train near Ressano Garcia , 75 km north-west of Maputo , on Feb. 15 , in which at least 77 people were killed . |
| 24 | More recently he had been seen as an impediment to the resolution of the continuing ethnically based dispute with Senegal , in the course of which at least 40,000 black Mauritanian nationals had been forcibly expelled by the Mauritanian authorities [ see pp. 36579-80 ; 36840 ] . |
| 25 | After the oceans , porous rocks contain the Earth 's largest store of water ; one calculation puts the total at more than 50 million cubic kilometres , of which at least 4 million cubic kilometres is freshwater . |
| 26 | During 1990 AI recorded almost 1,000 death sentences , of which at least 750 resulted in executions . |
| 27 | Wednesday 's bloodshed follows a massacre of ethnic Vietnamese in the northwestern province of Siem Reap on 10 March in which at least 38 people died . |
| 28 | By 5th November , 1856 , 1,050 applications had been received ; g by 5th December , 1,628 sets of conditions had been despatched ; and two months later , four months after the start of the competition , Hall told the House of Commons that 1,791 had been despatched , of which at least 270 had gone to foreign competitors . |
| 29 | SEARCHERS have found a survivor a week after a horrific plane crash in which at least 30 people died . |
| 30 | They relate to a crackdown on a shipyard workers ' strike in 1970 in which at least 25 people died . |