Example sentences of "[prep] least [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few had considered what to do about the care management-care programming interface but then this is at least partly a problem for health authorities . |
| 2 | Though this may apply to certain people , research findings indicate that suicide is at least partly a function of the availability of a lethal method of suicide . |
| 3 | But for everyone , rehabilitation is at least partly a learning process . |
| 4 | Some feminists argue that biology 's conservatism about gender is at least partly a matter of lack of feminist will . |
| 5 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 6 | ‘ Your hydra is at least partly a thing of the warp , is it not ? ’ |
| 7 | It may be at least partly an artefact of the methodology used to assign speakers to social classes . |
| 8 | When the name of a vulnerable elderly person has been passed to a social services department , that person becomes at least temporarily a client . |
| 9 | This bias was no doubt at least partially a reflection of the haphazard organization of policing in Britain itself at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Underneath it all , Seth was still at least partially a man . |
| 11 | At its most typical , this new form of innovation is at least primarily a marketing function , and this contrasts sharply with other kinds of innovation , which , governed by internal cultural purposes , often find themselves at the very margin of the market or indeed outside it altogether . |
| 12 | Each of these steps must be an improvement , or , bearing in mind the last section , at least not a deterioration . |
| 13 | Pediculus humanus corporis , the body louse , and Pediculus humanus capitis , the head louse , share with Phthirus pubis three pairs of legs , a predilection for man or the higher apes , and a dependence on fresh blood , to which they must have access at least twice a day . |
| 14 | His cellarman who had to make the journey to Culver Street at least twice a day was an ex-City Police Sergeant named Golding . |
| 15 | I ca n't really understand that , since I exercise regularly ( I walk to the sweet shop at least twice a day ) and I eat loads of fitness foods ( like Mars bars and Diet Coke for instance ) . |
| 16 | They were fed , cleaned out and exercised at least twice a day . |
| 17 | But though busy , there was time to swim at least twice a day in warm water , fanned by warm breezes , with an average temperature the year round of between 70° and 80° Fahrenheit , and always against a magical scenic backdrop that never ceased to enchant me . |
| 18 | When there are young in the nest — the clutch is usually two — the eagles have to catch fish at least twice a day . |
| 19 | Lyddy insisted on doing her hair over at least twice a day . |
| 20 | It will be played at least twice a day by the commercial station . |
| 21 | Your karate school is responsible for nominating you to the open ‘ B ’ or regional squad sessions which are normally held at least twice a year . |
| 22 | At this time Miller was acting in an advisory capacity , as recorded in the Memoranda Book of John , Fourth Duke of Bedford ( Woburn Mss HMC 62 , extract above ) : ‘ March 13 1740/1 agreed with Mr. Miller to pay him Twenty Guineas a year for inspecting my Gardens hot houses , pruning the trees , etc. and to come to Woburn at least twice a year and oftner if wanted , to be paid at Lady Day yearly . ’ |
| 23 | They require flushing at least twice a year . |
| 24 | Tony Chivers reported that a number of villagers had volunteered to be footpath representatives and had been allocated two paths each , which they had agreed to walk at least twice a year . |
| 25 | Over the years I have bought many Pearl recordings and although occasionally I find a particular passage hard to live with , I would find it difficult not to play any of the following at least twice a year : Otello with Martinelli/Tibbett ; Bruno Walter conducting Mahler in 1936 and 1938 ( Das Lied von der Erde and the Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 ) ; the pre-war Glyndebourne recordings with Busch ; the 1935 Vienna Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann and Gerhard Hüsch singing Schubert 's Winterreise and Die Schöne Müllerin . |
| 26 | It meets at least twice a year to decide the overall political and economic priorities of the EC , to resolve the most controversial outstanding issues within the Community and to discuss world affairs generally . |
| 27 | Remember that your toothbrush should be regularly replaced , at least twice a year . |
| 28 | They should be completely familiar with all exit routes and to this end should be exercised in evacuation procedures at least twice a year and more often if the contents of the warehouse are highly inflammable or explosive . |
| 29 | We dash abroad at least twice a year ( we dashed over to California last November ) and we dash down South to my daughter 's in Hampshire umpteen times a year and we dash seemingly everywhere in the wake of our grandchildren when on school holidays or visiting but I ( if not so much Bett ) also spend a heck of a lot of time just watching ( I prefer to call it scientifically observing ) the world around me and contemplating . |
| 30 | The foreign ministers shall meet at least twice a year . |