Example sentences of "least [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Sussex William Earnley was the son of the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; in contrast to most of his colleagues , who had at least £40 a year with an average of £100 , he had only £26 produced by a medley of very small properties , in addition to which he leased Cakehan manor from the bishop of Chichester . |
| 2 | Half of them would gain at least £10 a week and another quarter at least £20 a week . |
| 3 | Cost : at least £15 an hour . |
| 4 | Half of them would gain at least £10 a week and another quarter at least £20 a week . |
| 5 | A : I would earn at least £10 an hour there . |
| 6 | Badger damage to wheat crops costs Tony Berry at least £1000 a year , yet he can not see any legal way of preventing it . |
| 7 | Concentrating services at the Chest Hospital would save at least £50,000 a year . |
| 8 | It will cost at least £1.00 a day to feed , needs some companionship from you throughout the day , and all sorts of other commtments from you which , on consideration , you may not be prepared to make . |
| 9 | His son , Archdeacon Grantly , inherited well and received at least £3,000 a year . |
| 10 | He gave figures for four farmers who took part in an NFU lobby on the issue , showing that each would be getting at least £3,000 a year more . |
| 11 | To catch up with its rivals , UK industry must , the CBI believes , achieve productivity increases of at least 5% a year through the rest of the decade , double investment in plant and machinery per employee , and capture an extra 1% of world trade , worth £10bn a year . |
| 12 | The rise in oil prices towards $19 a barrel yesterday indicated that some traders are taking seriously the latest efforts by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries to trim output in an attempt to achieve a target level of at least $21 a barrel . |
| 13 | And they will make every individual employee on earnings up to at least £22,000 a year better off . |
| 14 | The report added that President Rafsanjani had estimated that it would cost Iran at least $500,000,000 a month to care for the refugees . |
| 15 | Mr Vernon Malcolm , managing director of the company which supplies parts for Nissan , said most of his employees were paid at least £3.40 an hour , but he needed to be able to set his own rates of pay rather than having them imposed by government . |
| 16 | Even if he was still paying off a mortgage , he had to be making at least £2,500 a year out of us , not counting the fact that the property had quadrupled in value . |
| 17 | Panda Drinks will be raising at least £30,000 a year to be spent on our highest priority conservation projects . |
| 18 | The voluntary levy has raised £2m so far and unions have pledged a further £7m to enable payouts of at least £100 a week to be made to those called out on strike . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's a fraction of the cost of sending teachers in to an island paying at least £50 a shot . ’ |
| 20 | At least £30 a week is put aside for food . |
| 21 | The £304m five-year football package is mind-boggling , with each club guaranteed at least £1.5m a year for five years . |
| 22 | For instance Chambers Development , a waste-management company from Pittsburgh , has guaranteed Charles City county in Virginia a host fee of at least $1.14m a year to open a landfill . |