Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at least " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up until this time , the horse will need to have its teeth checked at least every six months . |
| 2 | We shall also see that certain syntactic rules appear at least to be sensitive to implicature , and that implicature puts interesting constraints on what can be a possible lexical item in natural languages . |
| 3 | Third , I think there are good reasons to encourage at least one food supermarket in the city centre . |
| 4 | The officers estimate touts made at least £138,000 profit from fans at Wembley for the Liverpool-Sunderland final , with an average mark-up of £115 per ticket . |
| 5 | It might not be the most original football song but , given the dearth of lyrical ability on today 's terraces , it was reassuring to h ear Portsmouth 's fans singing at least something on Saturday . |
| 6 | However , about a third of compounds owned at least one mango tree , and about 10% one or more pawpaw ( papaya ) trees . |
| 7 | The federal government had proposed that enactment of its September 1991 constitutional reform proposals [ see p. 38429 ] should depend on approval by seven provinces representing at least 50 per cent of Canada 's population , and the NDP could thus have an unexpected degree of influence over their fate . |
| 8 | Masking is such a common operation that many computers provide at least one arithmetic or logical instruction which can specify a mask as well as the primary operands . |
| 9 | All parties gaining at least 10 per cent of electoral support in each of the nine regions would send an equal number of representatives to an upper house . |
| 10 | Farmers in the past , just as now have had to weigh their goods somewhere , but it seems a curious activity to carry out in the middle of a field and down through quite a number of generations ( the weights span at least two centuries ) . |
| 11 | Although wishing to increase membership , Council was anxious that direct entry was not seen as an easy option and instructed the M&R Committee to apply rigorously the requirement that the candidates demonstrate at least five years ' experience at senior level in credit management and to raise to 30 years the minimum age . |
| 12 | Marxists face at least two major problems . |
| 13 | That most schools give at least lip-service to the importance of this fact is obvious in the development of courses variously titled " study skills " , " library skills " , " information skills " and so on . |
| 14 | In the second set of interviews , by contrast , when asked , five out of six informants recall at least one grandparent . |
| 15 | Even among subjects examined at least three years after successful treatment of H pylori infection , the extent of gastric metaplasia did not change significantly . |
| 16 | The words implied at least one something else , if not more . |
| 17 | However its significance may gradually have been more fully appreciated in the 1960s as a series of papers and books provided at least four ingredients which emphasized the necessity to consider man in physical geography . |
| 18 | A further 100 seats were set aside for members to be appointed proportionally among political parties winning at least 5 per cent of the vote , including 20 reserved for overseas Chinese . |
| 19 | For instance , did you know that on average they have increased spending on books and equipment by ninety percent and that sixty percent of schools employ at least one more teacher and many employ more classroom support staff and that morale among teachers is widely reported to be higher , even where before those teachers opposed grant maintained status . |
| 20 | The law envisaged presidential elections held over two rounds , between candidates aged at least 40 and of the Moslem religion . |
| 21 | ( 3 ) All speakers recognise at least two distinct codes , " Creole/ Patois " or " Black Talk " and London English ( usually called just " ordinary English " ) . |
| 22 | Seats* Percentage Proportional Constituency Total of vote** representation seats BSP 47.15 97 114 211 UDF 37.84 75 69 144 BZNS 8.03 16 0 16 MRF 6.03 12 11 23 Fatherland Union *** 0 2 2 BSDP 0.05 0 1 1 Fatherland Party of Labour *** 0 1 1 Independents *** 0 2 2 Others 0.90 0 0 0 Total 200 200 400 *Only parties receiving at least 4 per cent of valid votes in all multi-member constituencies could win seats on a proportional basis ( although other parties could and did win direct election ) . |
| 23 | The latest government survey , published in November 1988 , shows that a quarter of all homes require at least £2,200 spending on them , and that many have potentially serious structural faults which could cost thousands of pounds to put right . |
| 24 | Virtually all the guards carried at least a side-arm and , usually , a semi-automatic rifle . |
| 25 | They found that in 1988 , over 98 per cent of all US homes had at least one television . |
| 26 | Although all the words have at least one sense bearing the property for which the root was originally selected , it must be noted that to locate all words bearing a particular semantic feature must involve the careful selection of several roots ( e.g. to find nouns with a [ +female ] feature , sprouts should begin from ’ female ’ , ’ woman ’ , ’ girl ’ and possibly ’ wife ’ ) . |
| 27 | It is generally conceded that such words have at least a Component of meaning that resists truth-conditional treatment ( Grice , 1975 ; Wilson , 1975 ; Levinson , 1979b ) . |
| 28 | Most computers have at least two representations for numeric data , for example a fixed-point binary format in which arithmetic is performed , and a character string format used by transput devices . |
| 29 | Most shops have at least one windsurfing enthusiast , who should be happy to advise you further since you could become a future customer . |
| 30 | Male canaries sing at least in part to make females prepare for reproduction . |