Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In fact I tuned out altogether for at least a week , while John checked into the hotel and ran around town shuffling papers and permits and palmgrease and all the other shit you deal in when you 're firming up a fresh identity . |
2 | Charles will be away for at least a year . |
3 | Direct sampling of the dust at various landing sites has indicated that it extends downwards for at least a metre or so . |
4 | He wo n't be calling a meeting here for at least a fortnight . ’ |
5 | He is staying here for at least a year to make a television series with Roger Moore . ’ |
6 | It must have been there for at least an hour . |
7 | He said he and wife Brenda had been growing apart for at least a year . |
8 | The sample was obtained by selecting one in five of the 42 per cent of people who left school in Scotland in 1977–8 with few or no qualifications ( i.e. without at least a grade O in the Scottish Certificate of Education ) . |
9 | Package or turnkey software should have been proven in use , ideally for at least a year . |