Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] at [adv] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | But even so there is a limit to the number of owls that can be packed into an area ; each pair probably insists on at least 20 hectares . |
2 | The uni-male harem occurs in at least three kinds of population dispersion pattern . |
3 | It is in three parts and the main physical bulk takes up at least three metres of shelf space , in addition to which there may be one metre of reference books and some local information on file or cards . |
4 | Written knowledge of contraception and abortion , some of it potentially effective like coitus interruptus and vaginal sponges and spermicides , goes back at least two millennia ( Himes 1936 , McLaren 1990 ) . |
5 | The tradition , which goes back at least 2,500 years , continued until the early part of this century . |
6 | The party was founded in June 1989 but Green activity in Slovenia goes back at least 20 years , centring on issue-oriented protests , notably over the nuclear plant at Krsko . |
7 | er it goes back at least 300 years er possibly longer than that , it may be that when they finish the tar they had services up there to celebrate it or to remember one of the benefactors . |
8 | Send your invitations and gift lists out at least six weeks before the wedding |
9 | ‘ The average train may leave 10 minutes late , but it has been proved that the average car journey sets off at least 40 minutes after the announced time . ’ |
10 | The history of milling at this site is almost as ancient as the village itself and dates back at least 900 years . |
11 | It pulls together , with impressive clarity , the tangled story that started at Chilhac , in the Auvergne , where a group of five hand-worked pebbles demonstrates that human habitation in Europe dates back at least 1,800,000 years . |
12 | Half of all animal extinctions have occurred this century and it is believed that another one million species could be lost by the year 2000 , which works out at over 270 extinctions every day for the next ten years . |
13 | The planners cheerfully calculate that this works out at only 60 cents a day per person — and that this cost will be offset by people having to spend less on doctors and medicines . |
14 | Keep it short is one obvious piece of advice — the SHE-Pandora short story competition has an upper limit of 5000 words , which works out at roughly 15 pages of A4 typed with double spacing . |