Example sentences of "least [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New electoral rules will mean that at least part of Congress will be chosen by voters from all over the country , undermining the power of regional party bosses . |
| 2 | At least 80% of heart attacks in men under 45 are thought to be due to cigarette smoking [ 5 ] . |
| 3 | — In the past few weeks , Alan Butterfield and Fred Wilcoxson , members of the club committee have received Certificates of Merit from the CIU. — Darlington 's Hopetown and Whessoe Social Club is aiming to raise at least £1,000 for charity before Easter . |
| 4 | ‘ We need a medical box with other equipment in to take and it will cost us at least £1,000 in petrol to get to Albania . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , that is top class form and with at least 2st in hand over his two rivals , he should not be beaten . |
| 6 | At least 90% of lung cancers are due to smoking . |
| 7 | He passes speedily from the absurdities of haute cuisine to the shortcomings of folk cookery , and deals a swift right and left to those writers whose reverent genuflections before the glory and wonder of every least piece of peasant cookery-lore make much journalistic cookery writing so tedious . |
| 8 | At least 95pc of emergency calls were responded to within the agreed 19 minutes and the remaining 5pc were delayed due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 9 | Cover the top with a PVC sheet and surround the house with at least 225mm of soil , leaving the tunnel entrance clear . |
| 10 | The rowan tree , below which I know Grandad lies , a huge trout , at least 8lb in weight . |
| 11 | Some analysts in the Philippines reckon that if the project is successful it could account within five years for at least 10% of GNP . |
| 12 | ITV and Scottish Television have a contract for TV coverage , but the project needs to attract at least £15m in sponsorship and advertising of various kinds . |
| 13 | Each employee paid £3 to participate and was set a personal target of raising at least £10 in sponsorship , but most exceeded the target and many also paid for more than one go . |
| 14 | Faults need to be diagnosed quickly and efficiently since quality of steel is increasingly important and mill shutdown costs at least £10,000 per hour . |
| 15 | Cats ' alert : Fire caused at least £10,000 of damage to the first floor of a house in Pannal Avenue , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough last night . |
| 16 | One or more rapid ventilation openings ( ie windows or exterior doors ) with a total area of at least 1/20th of the room 's floor area , with some part of the opening at least 1.75m above floor level . |
| 17 | In many places there were at least elements of spontaneity and although Duiker compares it with Trotsky 's description of the Bolshevik revolution as , for the most part , being a ‘ revolution by telegraph ’ , Khanh says that most places acted without instructions from the Central Committee . |
| 18 | It correctly stated at least 3″ of strip glass was required , but did not say what thickness . |
| 19 | Paradox 4 will run on a 286 with a least 2Mb of memory ; even with all the tutorial stuff it occupies less than 4.5Mb of hard disk space . |
| 20 | He said that if the Government insisted on maintaining this levy for the year , it should raise the threshold to at least £245 per week , the weekly average industrial earnings . |
| 21 | In their defence the managers are entitled to protest that the pressure for success , or at least avoidance of failure , comes from the boardroom and ultimately the supporters . |
| 22 | " I do n't want you to do anything that might attract the least sort of suspicion to yourself , but could you , in the normal course of your work , make out a list of the voyages of your ships over the past year — just name of ship and masters , ports of call , and dates ? " |
| 23 | A reduction of at least 30% in child mortality due to diarrhoeal diseases has now been found by all trials that have found a significant effect on overall mortality and have also examined causes of death . |
| 24 | A good response to treatment was defined as restoration of continence or a decrease of at least 75% in frequency of incontinence . |
| 25 | The term abstraction , of course , covers a multitude of if not sins at least variations of severity , from the wholly recognizable to the utterly ‘ pure ’ ( one stroller to another recently on the Battery Park City esplanade in lower Manhattan , noticing R.M. Fisher 's fanciful gateway sculpture : ‘ Oh look ! |
| 26 | The cold feed to the cylinder and the vent pipe must be at least 22mm in diameter ; it is best if the hot water distribution pipes are 22mm as well — at least as far as the connection to the branch pipe for the bath . |
| 27 | The planned partial flotation of Optus Pty Ltd , Sydney , Australia — expected to raise about $100m and release at least 5% of equity in the company — has been deferred until at least late 1994 : the reason for the delay is said to be to gain more detailed information about market share splits between Optus and the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corp , says the Australian Financial Review . |
| 28 | Normally , this would have meant a day off work to attend a training session at a cost of at least £150 per head . |
| 29 | To be eligible for the free weekend runners must raise at least £150 in sponsorship . |
| 30 | And if , as seems extremely likely , Middlesbrough make it into next season 's premier league , an initial payment of at least £2m from television rights could be expected . |