Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at least [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important that at least three coats are applied and that the top and bottom edges are given at least one coat to prevent moisture being absorbed . |
| 2 | It is in the member 's interest that these materials are received at least 6 weeks before the programme begins . |
| 3 | Its author , Roger Sedjo , argues that new temperate forests are absorbing at least 700 million tonnes a year , compared to the 1,000 million tonnes released annually as a result of tropical forest loss . |
| 4 | Simon Hayday , who 's in his early twenties , had been stabbed at least six times . |
| 5 | Peter Wickins had been stabbed at least four times in the chest . |
| 6 | For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ . |
| 7 | Well they 're expecting at least two cars . |
| 8 | Is it then to be concluded that the Cromer area has been downwarped at least 70 m since the Cromerian interglacial , or , if such an amount of downwarping seems to be excessive , that the sea level of the Cromerian interglacial was not as high as 70 m above the present ? |
| 9 | While the maximum that can be saved by an individual aged over 16 is £20 a month , more than one SAYE account can be held by the saver — provided they are held with the same institution and are opened at least one month apart . |
| 10 | Ursula works in a hospital where operations to correct hare lips are performed at least three times a week . |
| 11 | His car had been damaged at least six times and he 'd moved his double glazing factory because of three attempted robberies . |
| 12 | He estimated that the car must have been doing at least 18 miles per hour on the curve where it overturned . |
| 13 | North 's screen persona , which appeared suddenly to seize the country by the throat when he testified on television in July 1987 , had therefore been set at least seven months before . |
| 14 | Police are questioning at least three people after discovering a huge cache of semtex in a tea chest in East London . |
| 15 | We undertake to refund the deposit in full if you cancel because of redundancy , provided we are notified at least 8 weeks before departure and on receipt of confirmation from the employer concerned ( provided you have been in your current employment for the last 2 years ) . |
| 16 | The General Household Survey 's special analysis of carers in 1985 ( Green , 1988 ) suggested that : 1.7 million adults are caring for someone living with them ; 1.4 million are spending at least twenty hours per week doing so ; and 3.4 million are bearing the main responsibility for the care of someone . |
| 17 | It was an important administration and social centre and had been populated at least two thousand years BC . |
| 18 | And I 'm nursing at least one broken rib . |
| 19 | This might suggest that octreotide injections should be given at least 45 minutes after a meal . |
| 20 | He shows how the same events can be given at least three explanations , each related to different facts , or to the same facts differently interpreted . |
| 21 | Fibre helps you slim ; and we should be eating at least 30 grams a day of it . |
| 22 | However , whilst asserting that the reporting accountant should already as part of his or her duties be auditing at least two reconciliations in detail they also argued that the process was ‘ highly unlikely to reveal a great deal that the reporting accountant would not otherwise pick up during the year-end work ’ . |
| 23 | Some of chef/owner Melvin Rhodes ' recipes are included in the Les Routiers Cook Book and he will be cooking at least one of these for the lunch . |
| 24 | A new act 's problem is that if they approach an established manager , he or she will already be representing at least one major act . |
| 25 | Budgets should be prepared at least two months before the start of the relevant period and normally ( but not invariably ) cover twelve months of operations . |
| 26 | They can be made at least two days before they are needed . |
| 27 | To become commercial , though , the magnets will have to be made at least two-three times more powerful and a good deal lighter than they are today . |
| 28 | Reservations should be made at least 24 hours in advance of travel at Travel Centres and large stations . |
| 29 | Exchanges must be made at least three days before the original date booked . |
| 30 | The advertisement is to be made at least three weeks before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the applications are to be considered ( subs . |