Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initial deliveries are expected to go to at least the other announced PowerPC allies , Groupe Bull SA , Thomson-CSF , Harris Corp and Tadpole Technology plc , with Apple taking the lion 's share . |
| 2 | I mean there 's no earthly use doing a beautiful piece of evaluation erm which no-one wants to know about at the end , or publishing something that has no affect . |
| 3 | Not something I want to talk about at this moment . |
| 4 | Who wants to listen to at the Gates of Dawn ? |
| 5 | It 's feared that the death toll in the Cairo earthquake has risen to at least a thousand . |
| 6 | For instance , if an economy grows at 5 per cent per year following a two-year disbursement of a structural adjustment loan , if the international price for the country 's commodity exports has risen by at least 5 per cent in the same period of time , can the loan be regarded as justified ? |
| 7 | Whether or not there is a bust this year , in the long term China 's prospects are excellent , which could prove the best economic news the world has had for at least a century , and the best news China 's people have ever had . |
| 8 | There is now a glimmer of hope … this is the first reasonable amount of water a pond in Blewberry has had for at least two years . |
| 9 | To that same end , the female , it follows , is programmed to stay at home with the tiny disco-dancers , wondering where the hell the father has got to at three in the morning . |
| 10 | A marked contrast in behaviour would be expected during continental collision between the very thick crust of the Andes , where relatively rapid subduction has occurred throughout at least the Cenozoic , and the Alpine region where the closure of the ocean separating North Africa and southern Europe has been more gradual . |
| 11 | The case will resume tomorrow and is expected to last for at least two weeks . |
| 12 | The ban followed the Chernobyl accident , and was expected to last until at least the end of the century . |
| 13 | THE FUNERAL PROCESSION WAS REPORTED TO STRETCH FOR AT LEAST 2 MILES . |
| 14 | Set against this is the felt reality ; the constraining influences of the number of individuals a person has to interact with at any one moment and the problem of time . |
| 15 | We want to reduce by at least one dress size if not two ! |
| 16 | began his career with in June 1950 as a maintenance electrician and over the years he has worked for at Wallingford , at Newark and from 1987 for at Gainsborough . |
| 17 | This has happened in at least two cities , Halle and Karl-Marx-Stadt , where young party leaders have replaced their ‘ old guard ’ predecessors . |
| 18 | ‘ The current central London labour force needs to expand by at least 15% for the capital 's vacancy rates to be manageable , ’ says Mr Erdman . |
| 19 | This is something everybody has to think about at some time and , if you have any special wishes , it is better to let others know . |
| 20 | The formula for both these jocular comments is similar : in the midst of a conversation which has continued for at least two turns in London English , a speaker introduces a turn which ends in Creole ( typically such turns are at most one sentence long , and wholly in Creole ) . |
| 21 | There is no mention of the military exclusion zone which has existed for at least two years , for anything up to seven days a week , around the highest Eildon . |
| 22 | ‘ The bank account in question has existed for at least 40 years . |
| 23 | This work will not be done in a vacuum , but for a problem that has existed for at least a lifetime a few more months of thought might lead to better outcomes , and ones that will be more readily accepted . |
| 24 | Line 90 stops the time being printed unless it has changed by at least one second . |
| 25 | This strange kind of polygyny has accounted for at least nine different hypotheses attempting to explain the birds ' bizarre mating system . |
| 26 | Only 10 per cent of the 1940–4 birth cohort of women ( now aged 45–50 ) remained childless ; this figure is expected to rise to at least 15 per cent and possibly 20 per cent for the 1960–4 birth cohort ( Werner 1986 , OPCS 1989a , figure 4.9 ) . |
| 27 | In India alone the number of confirmed HIV-infected cases , currently totalling 11,000 , was expected to rise to at least 50,000 by 1995 . |
| 28 | The number of jobless , already at a record 3.1m ( 10.7% of the workforce ) , is expected to rise by at least 340,000 by the end of the year . |
| 29 | By the year 2020 the number is expected to rise by at least the same amount to reach nearly 100 million over-60s in the 12 member states . |
| 30 | So deviation is a matter of degree , and at some indefinite point it becomes significant not that a writer has chosen x rather than y or z , but that he has chosen x at all . |