Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figures are sketchy but all these categories combined appear to total at least 100m , or over 9% of the Chinese population — nearly 20% of the adult population . |
| 2 | The result is that first-time buyers now have to find at least 6% of the valuation to put down in advance . |
| 3 | Commenting cautiously on the present situation for the newspaper Kultura , the Chairman of the Archaeo-Geographic Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Academician Sigurd Schmidt , has said that he is convinced that a library belonging to the Muscovite sovereigns does in fact exist , and that , wherever it may be located , it will be possible to find at least fragments of what is left . |
| 4 | It starts with about $380m over five years to help national authorities exchange information in areas such as taxes and export controls , says national governments would have to provide at least $6,700m over five years , it said , and wants another $7,900m or so over seven years to help all the Community 's backward regions to build up their telecommunications and computer infrastructures ; it says helpfully that loans will be available from the European Investment Bank to help with the effort . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | FERRANTI 'S shares return to active trading today after a three-week suspension and are expected to open at around 45p . |
| 7 | The government had to increase its grant to the Arts Council in order to replace at least part of the subsidies these county authorities had paid to support cultural activities . |
| 8 | For chunky knitting , a 90% Courtelle/10% Nylon Brushed Chunky has been introduced in five pale shades to retail at approximately £1.89 for a 100 gram ball . |
| 9 | In their 4-ply Bouncing Babes range , Spectrum have added a selection of ‘ spot dye ’ shades on 100 gram balls to retail at around £2.36 or less . |
| 10 | Cut the plastic to cover at least 75% of the tank 's base , cut one or two holes along the back for the uplift tubes to fit in tightly , either just pushed in or siliconed . |
| 11 | The Spanish government may , of course , be hoping in the long term to be able to buy at least part of this collection at favourable rates ; otherwise it must simply be gambling on the Thyssen collection being a sufficiently spectacular and alluring feather in the cultural cap of the capital over the next ten years to make its considerable investment worthwhile . |
| 12 | As I have a fairly tight budget I am looking to buy at around £6,000 to £7,500 , However , at this price the addition of VAT is a hefty extra . |
| 13 | The third sentence it 's beautiful to look at etc comment on Jemma 's version . |
| 14 | Oh it 's nice to look at though Ray . |
| 15 | Jay had taken up situationist sculpture , and eased herself half upright to look at yesterday evening 's achievement . |
| 16 | Conversely , IDC forecasts that the world market is set to grow at about 20% per year between now and 1996 , by which time it will be worth $58,600m . |
| 17 | When you buy your spur , also buy bolts sufficiently long to pass through both spur and post to leave at least 25mm ( 1in ) protruding . |
| 18 | You will also need to use at least part of this milk with your cereal breakfasts . |
| 19 | You may prefer to pay more for a course geared specifically to the needs of health visitors rather than something more general , and may be able to recoup at least part of the costs of attending a course from your local continuing education budget . |
| 20 | The market is now expecting pre-tax profits to emerge at about £70m this year , a far cry from the £138m taxable profits reported in 1988 . |
| 21 | Investors can take out a combination Pep , allowing them to choose the balance they want between the two plans , though they have to put at least £500 in each one . |
| 22 | If we wish to know why hysteria is now so rare and why modern forms of psychopathology in general seem so often removed from their classical , nineteenth and early twentieth-century manifestations , we may now be in a position to give at least part of the answer . |
| 23 | But from the very fact that a religious authority who was comparable with the Pope , and for whose position no precedent seems to have existed in the Ottoman state except , perhaps , in its earliest , almost legendary days , appears on the scene relatively suddenly in the time of Murad II , it seems possible to deduce at least part of the reason for the foundation of the institution . |
| 24 | Some of the Scourie trout , released into small lochs as tiny fish , have grown to enormous size and are known affectionately by name : Ethel , stocked by Stan Tuer when she was a modest girl of five inches , now estimated to weigh at least 5lb ; Arthur , estimated to weigh 6lb . |
| 25 | This involves a per unit price below average cost , plus a lump sum fee for the right to consume , which is of sufficient size to ensure at least breakeven . |
| 26 | Railfreight said all the physical difficulties could be overcome with investment , but all the options seemed to start at about £100,000 . |
| 27 | Today is Pentium launch day when the likes of NCR Corp , Unisys Corp , Compaq Computer Corp and some two dozen other companies take the wraps off their first Pentium machines , but there is not much point in their making too much noise about it — Intel Corp expects to ship only about 10,000 Pentium chips to customers through June ; machines are generally expected to start at about $5,000 , but the Wall Street Journal hears that Advanced Logic Research Inc will announce a basic Pentium box for about $3,000 ; Compaq also plans an $18,000 Pentium version of its SystemPro server . |
| 28 | You will have to budget at least £7,000 for the most basic DIP system , including hardware and software , and you could spend several hundred thousand pounds on a sophisticated networked system . |
| 29 | Repairs are expected to cost at least £4.5m and work is due to get under way in the next few weeks . |
| 30 | Construction of the dam , which is likely to cost at least $20 billion , will flood 600 kilometres of river valley and displace more than a million people . |