Example sentences of "at [adv] one child " in BNC.

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1 Evidence that David Kirby was keen to show that L&SE was no longer a region-based organisation is to be found in the launch of Awayday , entitling an adult , if accompanied by at least one child , to purchase up to four additional tickets for adults or children at a flat fare of £1 each for use anywhere within the sector area .
2 According to the Dyslexia Institute , at least one child in 20 suffers from dyslexia , an inherited disability in the brain which affects their recognition and ‘ processing ’ of letters and symbols .
3 Yet every day in every school at least one child succeeds in the face of some formidable handicap to achieve almost unbelievable success .
4 Of those lone parents on income support , two thirds are divorced or separated and have at least one child under five years old .
5 ‘ Many children were weeping — in every single class at least one child has lost relatives , friends or neighbours . ’
6 This is paid to mothers with at least one child for whom they receive child benefit .
7 To return to characteristics of the sample : the forty women interviewed were all aged between twenty and thirty , were married , and the mothers of at least one child under five .
8 But once families are committed to at least one child and all the disruptions of career and household which inevitably follow , they are then inclined to have the second child that most expect , and are expected , to produce .
9 Despite the two-child family becoming the average this century , most women married since 1930 have not had two children : three-quarters had at least one child more or less than the average .
10 In Britain the prime consumer target is the housewife , particularly the housewife under 35 years of age and with at least one child under five years old .
11 Although one should not read too much into this , given that the families in the survey had at least one child in primary ( board ) school by definition , and therefore the oldest were sometimes the only ones of an age to be working , it can safely be said that the openings for girls in the printing trade must have been a godsend for low-income families with several children .
12 Frozen semen was used from donors aged between 25 and 45 years with proved fertility ( having fathered at least one child ) and with sperm properties satisfying the World Health Organisation criteria .
13 ( 5 ) Haskey found , for 1987–9 , that 53% of lone mothers with at least one child under the age of 16 were economically inactive .
14 Also , the proportion of households containing one person living alone increased between 1981 and 1991 from 22% to 26% , and the proportion of households containing only one adult and at least one child increased from 2% to 4% .
15 Boteler married sometime before 1646 Elizabeth Brooke of Great Oakley , Northamptonshire , by whom he had at least one child , a son .
16 Elizabeth Nihell had at least one child .
17 In several African countries in which marriage or first union takes place comparatively earlier in life , one half of the women bore their first child before reaching age 19 ; in Bangladesh , 50 per cent of the women had at least one child when they were 16.5 years old .
18 The inquiry follows from earlier longitudinal research begun in 1980 of working-class women with at least one child at home living in Islington , an inner city area of London where levels of social deprivation are high .
19 But again the suggestion through the media would be that in order to gain top priority you need to be a young single parent with at least one child .
20 Home-Start is available to any family with at least one child under five-years-old .
21 And the premium because they have at least one child is seven pounds ninety nine , ninety five .
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