Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wherever you are grabbed , you can not be stopped using at least some of these weapons , and every time one hits home , the attacker 's pain will increase until he or she is forced to loosen the grip . |
| 2 | To maintain satisfactory progress , a part-time student has to pass at least one course each year . |
| 3 | The problems of the British social formation were sufficiently pressing to demand at least rhetorical radical solutions from the parties ( Wilson 's ‘ planning ’ , Heath 's ‘ free market ’ ) , and governments ' failures to match their promises were of sufficient concern to the people to breed a serious disillusionment with party politics , yet I submit that for most people of all classes the problems were not considered so urgent as to demand a really radical questioning of existing social relations , with all the risks that would entail . |
| 4 | For that to begin to come about , a challenger would need to attract at least 70 MPs to vote for him or abstain . |
| 5 | Gold/silver medallions are awarded to the candidates who gain First and Second Place in each country in each Second and Third Level subject for which the country has presented at least 200 candidates . |
| 6 | Gold/silver medallions are awarded to the candidates who gain First and Second Place in each country , in each Second and Third Level subject for which the country has presented at least 200 candidates . |
| 7 | Osborne , a 20-year-old crane driver of Leicester , was recommended to serve at least 10 years . |
| 8 | This has saved at least 200 deaths and 7000 serious injuries each year . |
| 9 | The JAA has stipulated at least ten medicals a year . |
| 10 | Healing rates in ex-smokers who stopped smoking at least one month before the start of treatment , however , are similar to those in smokers , suggesting that smoking also has an indirect effect , associated perhaps with specific behaviour or personality characteristics . |
| 11 | Even the figure-drawing class , ( which seems to me the dreaded end , and the model has n't even got a beautiful figure ) has produced at least one lovely charcoal drawing . |
| 12 | This preference has produced at least two problems . |
| 13 | The fact that the law is not well documented , however , has produced at least three unfortunate effects . |
| 14 | Use this where your employee is leaving and has had at least four days ' SSP in the last eight weeks of the contract . |
| 15 | Anyway , ’ he told her , ‘ anyone who learns to sail has to experience at least one ducking . |
| 16 | According to the draft rules , a candidate would need to win at least 200 out of 300 votes to secure election in the first round or in a second round five days later . |
| 17 | Mr Gandhi needs to win at least 200 seats nationally to be reasonably certain of being called on to form the next government . |
| 18 | Plastic containers , cans and trays line our shop shelves and we have come to expect at least two-fold wrapping and a carrier bag to boot . |
| 19 | Saatchi has made no secret of his admiration for the work of the German painter Sigmar Polke , yet he has sold at least 17 works by the artist in his collection , including what many regard as Polke 's finest work , Paganini ; according to three separate sources of information , Saatchi has only one Polke left in his collection . |
| 20 | Specifically , LIFESPAN is designed to avoid at least two fundamental problems : |
| 21 | At its official relaunch , the new party leadership promised to field at least 250 candidates , and to concentrate on " politically interesting " seats , although it admitted that it could not win any . |
| 22 | The first few weeks always included a number of experiences designed to undo at least some of the damage done to sensible language learning by our schools and universities . |
| 23 | — The public inquiry is expected to last at least two months and three pre-inquiry meetings have been held two in Northallerton and one in Marton , Middlesbrough . |
| 24 | The inquiry runs from Tuesday to Thursday ( 10am-4.30pm ) and Friday ( 10am-2pm ) each week and is expected to last at least two months . |
| 25 | The conference is expected to last at least three months — but by the end of it the Department of Transport may have a publically acceptable solution to Hereford 's traffic jams . |
| 26 | Now , by Planck 's quantum hypothesis , one can not use an arbitrarily small amount of light ; one has to use at least one quantum . |
| 27 | Of the carers in the 1985 GHS who were living in the same household as the person receiving care , 51 per cent of women reported spending at least fifty hours a week giving help compared with only 39 per cent of men . |
| 28 | But he has found at least one surprising thing . |
| 29 | Bull also continued the fight with greater subtlety through the Daily Telegraph : he wrote for the Telegraph regularly in 1917 , either directly as " our political correspondent " , or indirectly by feeding information on the Bill to the paper , and this helped to keep at least one part of the Unionist press briefed with the official party line . |
| 30 | Assuming that a target company is confined to an authority of 10 per cent it will be seen that the directors of the target and their concert parties will need to hold at least 27 per cent before the buy-in to hold 30 per cent afterwards and thereby trigger a Rule 9 obligation . |