Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] least an " in BNC.
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1 | I would like to be able to find at least an oddment of eroticism . |
2 | Poll tax payers in Hambleton will have to find at least an extra £25 after district councillors yesterday set the rate at £210 for the area 's 60,000 payers an increase of 13pc . |
3 | It is possible that in the course of time scientific advance will be able to offer at least an hypothesis which will throw some light on the mystery of the origin of the universe and give substance to the belief that life , in some form or other , does have an ineradicable and eternal place in the universe . |
4 | If each of these requirements were to be implemented , it was , he said , necessary to have at least an organized labour-market , though much more would be needed . |
5 | They all have interest in the scheme so that we would believe the thing to do would be to have at least an equal number of employer appointed trustees and employee appointed trustees and the employee in this , I 'm using it globally , so it does cover all three groups and we also believe it would be advisable because er inevitably the e er members er probably would n't know a lot about pensions themselves to have an independent trustee from an independent company who specialises in pensions and pensions laws and could a advise them on exactly what the law says and what they they 're legal duties etcetera are . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The revitalised company that started life building its own 16-bit minicomputers , ultimately plunged into bankruptcy and returned from the dead as a library automation systems specialist , may make two more acquisitions this month , president and chief executive Stephen Sadler told the Toronto Society of Financial Analysts — and it expects to make at least an acquisition a month for the rest of the next 12 months . |
8 | Whether they knew George Pittendrigh or not they felt a need to be solemn , to show at least an awareness of mortality . |