Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at least [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the transactions are found to be lawful and enforceable and interest rates remain high , the council stands to lose at least £69.1 million - the estimated negative value of its portfolio in February . |
| 2 | Because brokers ' charges are high for small deals , you will need to invest at least £1000 in each . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You will also need to use at least part of this milk with your cereal breakfasts . |
| 6 | Repairs are expected to cost at least £4.5m and work is due to get under way in the next few weeks . |
| 7 | Andersen has a net book value of $14m , and the listing is expected to raise at least $25m , or approximately £17m at current exchange rates . |
| 8 | The compact disc is sponsored by the insurer Legal & General and the royalties are expected to raise at least £25,000 for the Aids charities and projects the Trust supports . |
| 9 | These rates are likely to be at least matched in the 1990s when , between 1987–8 and 1992–3 , the corporation plans to invest at least £600 million — half through land sales and half through central grant ( LDDC , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | But it began to look as though they were destined to attend at least part of the party . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Organisers hope to raise at least £5,000 for Help the Aged . |
| 13 | Typesetting software would expect to offer at least half-point setting increments and tenth-point line spacing . |
| 14 | Partners in the effort are thought to include at least Hewlett-Packard Co , IXI Ltd , Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc with IBM Corp said to be ‘ considering its position . ’ |
| 15 | In August , Dash , the leading UK leisurewear specialists launched a special range of " Meadowlands " clothing to help raise at least £25,000 for WWF . |
| 16 | More specifically , we have found that there are adaptive reasons that seem to explain at least part of the variation that Lewontin cites in each of his examples . |
| 17 | — In the past few weeks , Alan Butterfield and Fred Wilcoxson , members of the club committee have received Certificates of Merit from the CIU. — Darlington 's Hopetown and Whessoe Social Club is aiming to raise at least £1,000 for charity before Easter . |
| 18 | Unless the public tax bills goes up , the Treasury will have to borrow at least £40 billion next year , just to stay afloat . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ BHP should have used at least part of the money to invest in new technology and upgrade and improve its competitive standing in Australia . ’ |
| 21 | More than 3,000 consultants are backing the legal challenge , each having contributed at least £10 and guaranteed a further £100 towards the cost . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The maximum rebate you can receive is 80% of your community charge , since everyone who is not exempt will have to pay at least 20% of the community charge . |
| 24 | The rich countries reckon to have at least 95% of their adults literate . |
| 25 | At an extraordinary general meeting last Thursday , Spectrum 's shareholders agreed to form a consortium , Harmony Investments , which has pledged to inject at least £600,000 into the station to cover debts estimated at £450,000 . |
| 26 | A further 9 per cent of the people who died spent at least part of the last twelve months of their lives in such homes ; so almost a quarter , 23 per cent , were in residential homes at some stage in the last year of their lives . |
| 27 | They state that ‘ A reasonable target [ for CPE ] can be expressed as an average of 150 points year on year — with three points being recorded for each hour of structured CPE and one point for each hour of unstructured activity … members for whom CPE is compulsory should aim to achieve at least 40% of their CPE … through structured activities … |
| 28 | Although there is no minimum requirement for structured CPE , it is recommended that members for whom CPE is compulsory should aim to achieve at least 40% of their CPE ( 60 points ) through structured activities ( ie three days ) . |
| 29 | It must be pointed out that we had already hoped to make at least £1000 at the Annual Reunion so this means a bigger and better Christmas Fayre and a rise in the cost of tickets . |
| 30 | Brussels-based La Generale de Banque SA expects to save at least 50% on its yearly administrative costs once all of its telephone bills have been incorporated into the Electronic Data Interchange system it has been developing with state telecommunications operator Belgacom , says Thierry Gilmont , process manager at the bank . |