Example sentences of "they [vb past] at [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a survey of 1,800 working women in France might show that 38% read at least one magazine weekly , and a similar survey in West Germany of 940 working women showed that 47% of them read at least one magazine weekly . |
| 2 | ‘ The government clearly counts on the pleasure and prestige the jobs afford to keep them filled at fairly low cost , but this wo n't help if the best scholars are constantly tempted to go abroad ’ , says Kauffmann , ‘ and now , new appointments or those who change jobs by moving or by promotion no longer have the same job security ’ . |
| 3 | They believed at least 5 percent of the people would vote for a cleaner , safer and kinder future . |
| 4 | They arrived at ever decreasing intervals , always the same pale bewildered collection of strangers , always with new and astonishing stories of battle and the day-dream world . |
| 5 | He may end up with as many as sixty youngsters from several different broods which , because they hatched at slightly different times , are of several different sizes . |
| 6 | They lied at least four times last week as they tried to gloss over the seriousness of a plutonium spillage at the heart of their reprocessing operation . |
| 7 | In 1688 Townesend married Anne , daughter of Henry Brian , gentleman , of Witney : they had at least eight children but only a son John and a daughter survived their father , the former carrying on the business . |
| 8 | Nobody in the area was happy unless they had at least one feed . |
| 9 | They had at least one daughter and one son . |
| 10 | They had at least one son ( died 1970 ) . |
| 11 | They had at least one son and one daughter . |
| 12 | They had at least two sons , the elder of whom died in infancy . |
| 13 | They had at least two daughters and five sons . |
| 14 | They had at least three children — two sons , who died in infancy , and one daughter , Susanna , who married Thomas Stafford in 1627 . |