Example sentences of "least two of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will apply where at least two of the firms earn £170million or more of that turnover in the EC but do not earn more than two-thirds of their total turnover in a single EC country . |
| 2 | At least two of the journalists seized at the Marriott hotel on Wednesday were still feared to be in pro-Noriega hands yesterday . |
| 3 | At least two of the centres are registered as charities , and can provide limited scholarships to offset the cost of tuition . |
| 4 | the Community-wide turnover of at least two of the undertakings must exceed 250 million ecu ( roughly £175 million ) ; and |
| 5 | I have an alibi for at least two of the previous killings . |
| 6 | In Britain , we now have three publishing houses committed to women 's writing and at least two of the large publishing companies now carry a separate list for books of special interest to women . |
| 7 | The remaining 16 occurrences are mostly combinations of at least two of the described problems . |
| 8 | The diagnosis of Crohn 's disease was based on the presence of at least two of the following four criteria : a history of diarrhoea lasting more than three months ; radiological findings of typical stenoses and prestenotic dilatation in the small bowel or segments with a cobblestone appearance in the large bowel ; histological findings of transmural lymphocytic infiltration or occurrence of epithelial granulomas with giant cells of Langhans ' type , or both ; and the occurrence of fistulas or abscesses , or both , in a region of intestinal disease . |
| 9 | At least two of the men mentioned above had links with the duchy . |
| 10 | According to this interpretation , at least two of the contexts for evaluation that we have identified become aspects of the same thing . |
| 11 | This disclosure only applies to : public or special category companies or subsidiaries of such companies , or companies satisfying at least two of the following criteria : |
| 12 | In order to qualify as a small or medium-sized company in respect of a financial year , a company must satisfy for that year and the preceding year at least two of the following conditions : |
| 13 | Mr. Diamond asserts that under the Visby Protocol tort liability would be precluded in at least two of the examples . |
| 14 | In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year . |
| 15 | I know that not all of it has gone into cricket , but as we know that the Prime Minister , the chairman of the foundation and at least two of the trustees are cricket fanatics , we can expect that perhaps £5 million has been granted to cricket . |
| 16 | In this class are included all shorelines which have an origin combining at least two of the preceding classes . |
| 17 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 18 | I anticipate that at least two of the EFTA countries will place their applications before the Community shortly and that it will be possible to begin examining them in early 1993 . |
| 19 | It applied only to mergers between companies whose combined worldwide turnover exceeded 5,000 million ECU ( approximately US$6,500 million ) and where the aggregate EC turnover of each of at least two of the companies involved exceeded 250 million ECU . |
| 20 | On March 20 members of the OMON opened fire with automatic weapons on a bus carrying members of the Lithuanian defence force , injuring at least two of the seven men on board . |
| 21 | The immediate problem of the DLP 's lost legislative majority was overcome by March 26 , when negotiations secured the support of at least two of the independents . |
| 22 | It is suggested that schools should arrange for each group of girls ( 12–16 per group ) to spend a minimum of 1 to 1 hours covering at least two of the workstations , preferably using the kind of equipment with which they are unfamiliar , although it would appear that whilst some of the equipment may be available in schools , girls commonly claim that it is only the boys who gain access to it ! |
| 23 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 24 | Normally courses in three subjects are taken in the first year and , commonly , these are followed by second courses in at least two of the subjects in the second year . |
| 25 | Sera were scored as positive for SMA-AA when at least two of the following reactivities were present : kidney peritubular and glomerular positivity , actin cables on HEp-2 cells , counterimmunoelectrophoresis with actin as antigen , positivity of phalloidin treated rat liver cell actin ( submembranous deposits of microfilaments at the sinusoidal and biliary portions ) . |
| 26 | A true positive was defined as a patient who had H pylori identified by at least two of the biopsy related tests ( histology , culture , and CLO tests ) , while a true negative was one who did not have H pylori diagnosed by any of these tests . |
| 27 | At least two of the men mentioned above had links with the duchy . |
| 28 | Active Crohn 's disease was defined as at least one of the following : abdominal pain causing severe limitation of activity , diarrhoea ( at least 3 loose stools/day ) , weight loss of more than 2 kg in the past month , or at least two of the following laboratory abnormalities : haemoglobin <12.5 g/dl in men ( <10.5 g/dl in women ) , erythrocyte sedimentation rate >20 mm/h , serum albumin <35 g/l . |
| 29 | If at least two of the three physicians assigned the death to the same category , it was taken as the cause , otherwise the cause was classified as ‘ unknown ’ . |
| 30 | Notwithstanding its critics , the continuum hypothesis has been an influential one in the study of Caribbean Creoles , and has formed the basis for significant studies of at least two of the Caribbean territories , Jamaica ( De Camp 1971 ) and Guyana ( Bickerton 1973 , 1975 ) Whatever the merits of the continuum hypothesis as a linguistic theory , its terms , " acrolect " for the local standard , " basilect " for the broad Creole , " mesolect " for the in-between varieties used mainly by the middle classes , have become widely accepted . |