Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at least " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its official relaunch , the new party leadership promised to field at least 250 candidates , and to concentrate on " politically interesting " seats , although it admitted that it could not win any . |
| 2 | Bull also continued the fight with greater subtlety through the Daily Telegraph : he wrote for the Telegraph regularly in 1917 , either directly as " our political correspondent " , or indirectly by feeding information on the Bill to the paper , and this helped to keep at least one part of the Unionist press briefed with the official party line . |
| 3 | Each time Celia re-entered the clinic he could not deny a feeling of overwhelming relief , although he still tried to spend at least one night at home mid-week , if only for the brief half-hour in the morning , which he was able to devote to Harry . |
| 4 | The Israeli-Syrian track got off to the fastest start last year , when the new Rabin government promised to trade at least some of the Golan Heights for peace . |
| 5 | Donald Mackay , aged 41 , was jailed for life at the Old Bailey — and recommended to serve at least 40 years — for the murder of a prostitute , Ann Petherick , and for assaulting another prostitute , Rosemary Saunders . |
| 6 | Some of the Scourie trout , released into small lochs as tiny fish , have grown to enormous size and are known affectionately by name : Ethel , stocked by Stan Tuer when she was a modest girl of five inches , now estimated to weigh at least 5lb ; Arthur , estimated to weigh 6lb . |
| 7 | Every house seemed to have at least one , sometimes several , of the distinctive mud-baked nests under its eaves . |
| 8 | Not to be outdone , Dave Doyle claimed to have at least 108 , but they washed off in the shower . |
| 9 | Later on , when we distributed publicity or went door to door visiting , we never failed to draw at least one family to come and see this new thing which had come to pass . |
| 10 | According to Charles Rycroft , Artemidorus required to know at least six facts about a dream before it could be interpreted — " Whether the events depicted in the dream were plausible or bizarre ; whether they were approximately interconnected ; whether they were customary for the dreamer ; what events prior to the dream could have influenced it ; and the dreamer 's name and occupation " . |
| 11 | He needed to finish at least third to wrest the title from Niki . |
| 12 | At a meeting held in Tunis , the states undertook to devote at least five per cent of their territory to nature conservation . |
| 13 | The man they chose , John Frohnmayer , feels he managed to do at least that . |
| 14 | Many employers ‘ contracted out ’ of the Graduated Pension Scheme and agreed to pay at least the same amount as their employees would have received from the State under the graduated scheme , from their own occupational scheme . |
| 15 | The £100,000 initiative thought to be the first of its kind in Britain aimed to keep at least ten Darlington families from eviction . |
| 16 | As stout and weathered as an old vessel , it appeared to hold at least two of everything . |
| 17 | These were also powerfully promoted by domestic service at a time when even the meanest clerk expected to employ at least a resident maid-of-all-work . |
| 18 | The government still intends to introduce Islam 's sharia law , but only once the people have been ‘ educated ’ , a process expected to take at least three years . |
| 19 | Were he to be called in the immigration debate Joshua would most certainly abandon the bookshop where he planned to spend at least part of the morning . |
| 20 | The newcomers were not able to brush aside the native Carib population with quite the contemptuous ease with which the Spaniards had conquered the mainland ; attempts to settle in earlier years had been resisted successfully and in some islands the English settlers had to remain at least as careful about the risk of native attack as any community in North America . |
| 21 | Paula had told her there were twelve models in the show and each of them had to wear at least ten outfits . |
| 22 | To have a drink on a Sunday , he had to be a ‘ bonna-fide traveller ’ , and had to go at least three or four miles before he would be served . |
| 23 | Finally , resolved to find at least a change of heat , I went on to Khartoum , which had the merit at least of being dry in contrast to the swelter up north . |
| 24 | I had to install at least another four in the kitchen in my present home , to cater for all the electrical appliances . |
| 25 | They had to serve at least two years as trainees in one of the main deaf centres before sitting for examinations and , if successful , being awarded a diploma . |
| 26 | But Einstein had shown that you could n't use a very small amount of light ; you had to use at least one packet , or quantum . |
| 27 | There was no " hurdle " to surmount if representation were to be won ( in West Germany parties had to poll at least 5 per cent of the vote to enter parliament ) . |
| 28 | We had to keep at least ten feet from each other . |
| 29 | By a special act of Parliament every railway company had to run at least one train each day for which the fare was one penny a mile . |
| 30 | As the Welsh had been written off even by their most loyal supporters , the French media was at pains to try to explain to their bemused readership the concept of points differential , in other words point out that in order to win the cup France had to score at least as many points as England had in Dublin . |