Example sentences of "[verb] by at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They still might have won by at least two goals , but it was never to be . |
| 2 | ‘ In all honesty we should have won by at least 15 points , ’ Brian Nicholas , the Bridgend coach , said . |
| 3 | Local observers think that interest rates may fall by at least another percentage point . |
| 4 | If an individual is nominated by at least two others , then this is taken as confirmation of this individual 's existence in the network . |
| 5 | This resulted in a total of 163 unique individuals who were all nominated by at least two other persons amongst the snowball group . |
| 6 | At present , such guidelines require that options may not be exercised until at least five years from their date of grant and then only if over a five year period following the date of grant the Company has achieved growth in earnings per share which exceeds the growth in the Retail Prices Index by at least ten percentage points . |
| 7 | Only valence shell MOs that are occupied by at least one electron can be studied by photoelectron spectroscopy ( PES ) , but for these we can deduce the binding energy and also in some cases the bonding or anti-bonding character of the orbital . |
| 8 | Rostov was not sure what purpose his stateroom had served previously but it was obvious that it had been occupied by at least four persons , all of whom had been possessed of diverse tastes with regard to the minimal decoration which was permissible aboard a ship designed for deep space exploration . |
| 9 | Flintshire must win by at least five wickets to snatch second in the four-strong group and thus qualify for the semi-final knockout stage . |
| 10 | ‘ Business re-engineering ’ or ‘ process re-engineering ’ is the latest example ; a concept whose paternity is claimed by at least two management consultants , chiefly an American called Michael Hammer , author of Re-engineering the Corporation . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) A document which bears to have been executed by the Funding Council in accordance with sub-paragraph ( 2 ) above shall , in relation to such execution , be a probative document if the subscription of the document bears to have been attested by at least one witness . |
| 12 | The eruption itself was preceded by at least two major earthquakes , which seem to have scared off the inhabitants , since they stripped the town of all movable objects and fled — no bodies have been found in the ruins . |
| 13 | Left-hand gloves are folded neatly over hip pockets , every stricken shot is preceded by at least three practice swings , and plumb bobbing is done on most greens , although , were the players challenged , most would be unable to explain why they were dangling their putter between thumb and index finger , and closing one eye , usually the wrong one . |
| 14 | The company says it will accelerate job cuts this year with its worldwide workforce shrinking by at least 3,400 people . |
| 15 | More than 100 items will be slashed by at least one-third with many at half price . |
| 16 | There was one lone man at the back of the bar fortyfivish reading a newspaper — but a real surveillance should be done by at least three people the A-B-C method although not all would come into a bar perhaps only one … |
| 17 | Any meeting attended by at least 20 per cent of the parents may pass resolutions which the head teacher , the governors and the local education authority must consider . |
| 18 | This leaning tree should be combined with a general silhouette of trees which is disturbed by at least one palm that outstrips the others to enhance the pattern of the whole . |
| 19 | Almost all people , atheists and believers alike , will admit to being spontaneously moved by at least some of it . |
| 20 | It was wispy and very feminine , a dress she had bought for a party that had in the event been missed by at least three months . |
| 21 | However , in the current economic climate it is only major corporates that will find demand for their SCP , and only then if it is rated by at least one of the rating agencies such as Moody 's or Standard and Poors . |
| 22 | Anyone who switches from the existing bus service to the new service must therefore value time saved by at least 36 pence per hour saved . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | Since negotiation implies movement in order to achieve agreement , it is likely that concessions will be made by at least one party during the bargaining process . |
| 25 | And at the National Enquirer in the US , the paper which broke the story and published artist 's impressions of the pictures , insiders said the pictures had been seen by at least one member of staff . |
| 26 | In the potential risks condition the number given in brackets after the total is the number of those potential risks which were matched by at least one description in the same five second section . |
| 27 | If you want to sell any item , have it valued by at least two reliable dealers . |
| 28 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
| 29 | No one had investigated inner-city language in this way before , so for all we knew there might have been no significant differences at all , and we were told by at least one colleague — not very encouragingly — that ‘ Broad Belfast ’ dialect was all very much the same . |
| 30 | Palau 's constitution bans nuclear activity unless agreed by at least 75 per cent of voters . |