Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] at least " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , I think there are good reasons to encourage at least one food supermarket in the city centre . |
| 2 | Try to select material which uses pictures to tell at least some of the story and then make sure that you exploit this in your use of it in the language class . |
| 3 | Indeed , OSF expects sales of DCE licences to contribute at least $55m to its coffers in 1994 . |
| 4 | In his speech , De Michelis urged EC countries to devote at least 0.25 per cent of their gross national product ( GNP ) towards investment in the Maghreb countries where demographic pressures were rendering them vulnerable to the forces of Islamic fundamentalism and encouraging mass migration to Europe . |
| 5 | The Church praises the courage of a small number of press , radio and TV journalists who are risking their lives to maintain at least a few channels of information which are not controlled by the government . |
| 6 | If the Shipman 's Tale is a redaction of a dramatized fabliau of the same kind as the English Dame Sirith we can expect these opening lines to convey at least some particular characteristics of the fabliau as conceived and used by Chaucer . |
| 7 | The Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) Education and Enterprise Initiative has set targets for ten per cent of teachers each year to be seconded to industry and for all school leavers to spend at least two weeks on Work Experience . |
| 8 | For instance , the well-known Farmington Plan , which operated from 1948 to 1972 , was a voluntary agreement between 60 American libraries to acquire at least one copy of each new foreign publication that might reasonably be expected to interest a research worker . |
| 9 | She concluded that although her findings showed considerable improvement since previous studies , there were still problems and she made proposals to rectify at least some of them . |
| 10 | Planned tourist features like the Tees barrage , the Hartlepool marina and the Wynyard park business and leisure development were considered by Tees Valley 's board of directors , along with its existing achievements , strong reasons to retain at least some of its role in the future . |
| 11 | Planned tourist features like the Tees Barrage , the Hartlepool Marina , and the Wynyard park business and leisure development were considered by Tees Valley 's board of directors along with its existing achievements , strong reasons to retain at least some of its role in the future . |
| 12 | Environment Secretary , Chris Patten , has since tried to compensate for the ill-favoured move with assurances that the new bodies would have the resources to perform at least as well as the old NCC . |
| 13 | The madam might occasionally slap the girls or call them rude names , but in the end she wants the customers to buy at least one of them . |
| 14 | ‘ The rents-to-mortgage scheme would allow tenants to buy at least half their property from day one by paying the existing rent . ’ |
| 15 | The rents-to-mortgages scheme would allow tenants to buy at least half their property from day one , simply by paying the existing rent . |
| 16 | This time , the ITB expects the participating firms to score at least £5m in direct sales . |
| 17 | and then you can just when the teacher says that , you know what questions to ask at least . |
| 18 | Yet personal allowances should have been raised in line with last December 's inflation rate of 2.6 per cent , allowing taxpayers to earn at least an extra £90 a year before tax . |
| 19 | By abolishing the composite rate tax in his 1991 Budget his successor Norman Lamont enabled 15 million savers on low earnings to gain at least a quarter more interest on bank and building society deposits . |
| 20 | MIPS ' operations meanwhile , are slowly being dismantled by SGI : US reports suggest that 450 of the 685 jobs at MIPS are to go , although there are plans to redeploy at least 250 of those lost at other SGI sites . |
| 21 | The report also stated that there were longstanding moves to purchase at least three 400-600-megawatt reactors from the former Soviet Union , but that these had been subject to numerous delays . |
| 22 | The world 's dominant religions require members to worship at least once a week and to attend a major festival every three months . |
| 23 | Our President wishes divisions to hold at least one practical demonstration each year , with members of kindred organisations , ( funeral directors , doctors , nurses etc. ) being invited to attend . |
| 24 | Unless means can be found for experienced teachers to have at least the equivalent of a whole year studying for a Master 's level retraining , the partially sighted will be leading the blind . |
| 25 | The Bank sets itself exceptionally high standards that , inter alia , call for projects to deliver at least a 10% economic rate of return . |
| 26 | A boycott by conservationists of Alaskan tourism has forced the state to postpone plans to cull at least 300 grey wolves . |
| 27 | I always advise musicians to digest at least a certain amount of knowledge about their business affairs . |
| 28 | US senator Larry Pressler said on Dec. 1 that according to the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) Pakistan had the components to build at least seven nuclear bombs . |
| 29 | JOHN MAJOR sought to break the Cabinet deadlock over the pit closure programme yesterday as Conservative rebels piled pressure on ministers to save at least half the threatened collieries . |
| 30 | In the market , shareholders in one automobile firm can observe the profitability of the competitors to obtain at least a rough idea about the managerial quality of the given firm . |