Example sentences of "[prep] least a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment remained high , and it was estimated that at any one time at least a million men were without work . |
| 2 | Vega-built B–17G N3509G had undergone an intensive maintenance and restoration programme at World Jet Inc in Florida and looked at least a million dollars , but the bidding slowed at $900,000 . |
| 3 | At least a million people of working age migrated to the the South East during the inter-war period , and Wales , as a whole , lost both its natural increase in population and an actual loss of about 450,000 people . |
| 4 | This should not happen for at least a million years … but there is an outside chance that it could happen tomorrow . ) |
| 5 | They needed at least a two goal win to reach the international stages of the competition . |
| 6 | By 1958 , both the United States and the Soviet Union had carried out test explosions with single bombs at least a thousand times more deadly . |
| 7 | For example , polonium-210 concentrates at least a thousand times in fresh fish and more in shellfish . |
| 8 | In fact the possession of a high work of fracture — at least a thousand times higher than the free surface energy — is an essential characteristic of all safe and practical structural materials which are used in tension . |
| 9 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies perhaps and even larger and larger growth and more and more specialised information , which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 10 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies and even larger and larger growth in more and more specialised information which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 11 | Afterall a good horse will cost you a fortune to buy … and then having it trained and ridden by the best will set you back at least a thousand pounds a month … |
| 12 | For a good chance of a safe landing , the ground must be seen from at least a thousand feet so that there is time to select a field and assess the wind . |
| 13 | Mankind had , after all , turned from hunting to farming as a way of life at least a thousand years before this date , by which time both goats and sheep were already domesticated . |
| 14 | However , while you have been reading the book , you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered energy , in the form of food , into disordered energy , in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat . |
| 15 | Walton ( 1985 ) claims that at least a thousand plants in America have transformed their workforce strategy in an attempt to move from an organizational culture of control to one based on commitment , although only a few have a comprehensive commitment strategy . |
| 16 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
| 17 | He said fierce fighting was taking place near Bahdu and insisted I would need at least a hundred soldiers if I went there . |
| 18 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
| 19 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 20 | You 're being silly , she told herself ; a man as attractive as Luke Denner would be bound to have many women in his life , any number of girlfriends ; had n't she schooled herself into thinking this at least a hundred times — ever since that very first meeting , ever since he had dragged her unceremoniously into that small , chaste bedroom , ever since he had made love to her ? |
| 21 | The most exciting part of all , though , came with the discovery that the puppy was the one Farmer Bolsover had lost and that it was a pedigree sheepdog worth at least a hundred pounds . |
| 22 | Herein lies the problem : the wood needs to be of a species for which there is a ‘ master chronology ’ ( see p. 125 ) and there must normally be at least a hundred tree rings in the sample to be dated to ensure a unique match with the master pattern . |
| 23 | During the millions of years since they first made their appearance , at least a hundred species of Proboscidea have come and gone . |
| 24 | Violet , watching the tall negress , a bold haughty bearing ; she appeared the star attraction out of all the women — and there must , all smoking , posing , rude as the renaissance , be at least a hundred whores — wondered ( such a rate , turnover ) at the money in her handbag . |
| 25 | Sometimes conditions could be even worse : Godwin , for example , describes a London court where ‘ the basement story of nearly all the houses was filled with foetid refuse , of which it had been the receptacle for years ’ , and one water barrel of 50 to 60 gallons is intended to serve two houses , containing between them at least a hundred people . |
| 26 | ‘ Lee , nobody who has n't known you for at least a hundred years is going to appreciate oblique and esoteric … ’ |
| 27 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 28 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 29 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 30 | Do n't you realise it 's taken at least a hundred years for that to grow ? |