Example sentences of "would take at least [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Slovene President Milan Kucan estimated that the process would take at least six months , and he promised that during that time Slovenia would negotiate with the federal government to avoid financial and administrative conflicts .
2 The government had provoked opposition protests by twice extending the current parliamentary session by two months , in early February and again in early April , ostensibly because it would take at least six months to complete the registration exercise for a new electoral roll .
3 Initial estimates that it would take at least two years to extinguish all the fires proved pessimistic as the teams rapidly gained experience in the task .
4 Initial estimates that it would take at least two years to kill all the fires proved pessimistic as the teams rapidly gained experience in the task .
5 And here 's a simple sum : they reckon 700 visitors an hour could visit Canary Wharf though it would take at least 200 MILLION visitors to meet the development 's £600 million debts .
6 Otherwise , the fact that nothing can travel faster than light means that the round trip to the nearest star would take at least eight years .
7 On average , it would take at least five or six genetic changes to turn a crop into a dangerous weed .
8 A UN report published on May 2 estimated that the process of reconstruction would take at least 10 years [ see pp. 37987 ; 38118 ; 38166 ] , and that the Iraqi occupation had cost Kuwait US$8,500 million .
9 Frank Rubino , Noriega 's chief defence lawyer , described himself as " shocked " by the judge 's suggestion , having previously estimated that it would take at least nine months before the case would be ready for trial .
10 We knew the train would take at least four hours to cover the sixty kilometres from Raxaul to Dhang .
11 Even with a computer , it was reckoned it would take at least four years , and the chances were very high that one would make at least one mistake , probably more .
12 It would take at least another seven or eight years to turn her into a recognizable human being .
13 It was recognized by all concerned that it would take at least three and more likely five years for any of the Brabazon types to come into production , so work also proceeded on interim types that could hold the gap until the newer types were in service .
14 Curt Wozniack , Sun 's vice president , engineering said it would take at least three to four years to understand and productise the technology , incorporating it into existing SBus or new hardware products .
15 In the past this exercise would take at least three man days and , due to the " five bar gate " method of data collection , was certainly inaccurate .
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