Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last sentence begs at least four questions , and will be analysed in some detail . |
| 2 | Yet , however extended , the basic process of writing and printing retained at least some elements of mediation . |
| 3 | A SIMPLE ANATOMICAL weakness causes at least one in 50 men to suffer from inguinal ( groin ) hernias . |
| 4 | There is no cure for this , but fortunately it is usually found that such processes do not occur in some fraction of photoionization events , so that the observed spectrum contains at least some intensity in an unshifted line , accompanied by various ‘ satellites ’ corresponding to the energy loss processes . |
| 5 | These results show that tenascin has at least 16 consecutive fibronectin like type III repeats . |
| 6 | Managing a curriculum has at least three interlocking components : ( a ) a formal statement ( more or less detailed or precise ) ; ( b ) those who deliver ( teachers ) , and who enjoy more or less autonomy , responsibility , public confidence , etc ; ( c ) a hierarchy which monitors and supervises delivery , carries varying degrees of ‘ clout ’ vis-à-vis teachers , and operates at varying degrees of distance from the classroom . |
| 7 | Third , I think there are good reasons to encourage at least one food supermarket in the city centre . |
| 8 | Each yacht has at least one spacious bathroom complete with vanity unit , mirror and electric shower option . |
| 9 | I make it a rule to go at least three times . |
| 10 | Similarly , purposeful action involves at least implicit recognition of some future achievement , but a general sense of the future could not have resulted until man applied his mind systematically to the problem of future events . |
| 11 | Schumpeter produces at least two definitions , closely similar in spirit to one another : ‘ Democracy means only that the people have the opportunity of accepting or refusing the men who are to rule them ’ . |
| 12 | By the end of 1908 Picasso owned at least five tribal objects and he went on to amass a large collection , much of it of very doubtful quality , although after the war when his own work was commanding large prices he occasionally exchanged a painting for a choice piece . |
| 13 | One of them Michael Huskison , who took photographs of the incident , said he saw the horse whipped at least 15 times . |
| 14 | This study goes at least some way towards overcoming the problems of other work discussed by Box and Hale ( 1986 , pp. 74–5 ) , in that it relies on self-reported victimisation rather than police figures on recorded crime , and it controls for other socio-demographic variables . |
| 15 | However , about a third of compounds owned at least one mango tree , and about 10% one or more pawpaw ( papaya ) trees . |
| 16 | There are enough members in the North-East to demand at least one visit a season from their team . |
| 17 | The federal government had proposed that enactment of its September 1991 constitutional reform proposals [ see p. 38429 ] should depend on approval by seven provinces representing at least 50 per cent of Canada 's population , and the NDP could thus have an unexpected degree of influence over their fate . |
| 18 | Masking is such a common operation that many computers provide at least one arithmetic or logical instruction which can specify a mask as well as the primary operands . |
| 19 | Everyone who has regular dealings with Brussels needs at least one such directory . |
| 20 | Labour has at least two good candidates : Mr Harold Walker , deputy to Speaker Weatherill , and Miss Betty Boothroyd , who has proved her competence in the chair and would be acceptable to all parties . |
| 21 | All parties gaining at least 10 per cent of electoral support in each of the nine regions would send an equal number of representatives to an upper house . |
| 22 | The rulers of Byzantium drew at least some of their supplies from India . |
| 23 | Farmers in the past , just as now have had to weigh their goods somewhere , but it seems a curious activity to carry out in the middle of a field and down through quite a number of generations ( the weights span at least two centuries ) . |
| 24 | If Levitation dropped at least three songs from their set tonight they could have been dynamically interesting instead of sparsely tedious , but at least they would n't get invites to a House Of Love musical appreciation party . |
| 25 | Although wishing to increase membership , Council was anxious that direct entry was not seen as an easy option and instructed the M&R Committee to apply rigorously the requirement that the candidates demonstrate at least five years ' experience at senior level in credit management and to raise to 30 years the minimum age . |
| 26 | Marxists face at least two major problems . |
| 27 | Market research shows at least 3,500 practices plan to computerise in the next 12 months , and this is almost certainly a conservative figure . |
| 28 | In the second set of interviews , by contrast , when asked , five out of six informants recall at least one grandparent . |
| 29 | On the day after his inauguration the new President ordered at least 162 people — including his immediate predecessor Ertha Pascal-Trouillot and her entire Cabinet — not to attempt to leave the country for one month . |
| 30 | CITY OF EDINBURGH women stayed on top of the Scottish League first division yesterday with a 99-48 win over an Edinburgh Royals side containing at least four players who have represented Scotland . |