Example sentences of "[verb] at [adv] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | A body needs at least two people to carry it any distance from a car , and it 's not easily disguised . |
2 | Remember that this type of filter needs at least 5 cm ( 2″ ) of gravel . |
3 | An adult tiger stands at least 3 ft ( 90 cm ) high at the shoulder . |
4 | Kent police say at least ten people have been killed and a further two are believed to have died in a coach crash on the M two near the Faversham turn-off . |
5 | Anyone dropping into the church any time , any day , during the sorting period would have been sure to find at least 10 people working ( ‘ sustained solely by lemon barley water ’ ) . |
6 | McCallen had problems with the carburration and as a result he never really got into the final practice but unofficially he lapped at over 119 mph only three seconds behind the overall leader Carl Fogarty . |
7 | With the standard deviations being relatively high ( in the order of 8.0 to 12.0 ) , clearly a much larger data sample is needed ( to provide at least 100 data points , i.e. 25-30 sentences ) . |
8 | * Western countries need to provide at least another £4.1 billion to make former Soviet-bloc pressurized water reactors safe , according to the head of the German Siemens group energy division . |
9 | For that to begin to come about , a challenger would need to attract at least 70 MPs to vote for him or abstain . |
10 | The region 's 600 clerical staff want at least another £700 a year . |
11 | If SCO lets its MIPS development ride , one reason is certainly Intel 's efforts to pump up the performance — now reported at over 100 MIPS — and accelerate delivery schedules for the P5 . |
12 | She says one was driving at about 70 mph and could have hit her . |
13 | She says she was only driving at about 25 mph . |
14 | The next day , after sporadic incidents , violent disorder erupted at about 7.00 p. m . |
15 | They believed at least 5 percent of the people would vote for a cleaner , safer and kinder future . |
16 | Largen found the rate of feeding to peak at around 20–22 ° C and fall steeply to zero at 25 ( Fig. 4 ) . |
17 | Conducted by Justice Richard Goldstone , the inquiry found that the force used by policemen was " quite immoderate and disproportionate to any lawful object sought to be obtained " , that the police had killed at least 11 people by opening fire on a protest march , and that they had shot at least 127 people who were trying to run away . |
18 | The igneous complexes described have been dated at c. 2200 m.y . |
19 | On two occasions during this period he told at least four people that money had been found by her body . |
20 | It has been shown conclusively in the south-east of England that a marked terrace of early Pleistocene age with beach deposits in some localities occurs at about 195 m ( 650 ft ) OD ( Wooldridge and Linton , 1955 ) . |
21 | The first EISA-based Alpha AXP personal computers , which include a minitower and a desktop , are expected to offer better price/performance than systems based on Intel 's Pentium processor — the superscalar Alpha executes 300 MIPS at 150MHz where Pentium is rated at over 100 MIPS . |
22 | But in the last few days the food supplies from CARE alone have fed at least 150,000 people . |
23 | Watertown , Massachusetts-based American Superconductor Corp signed a joint development agreement with Hoechst AG on techniques for making superconducting wires : American Superconductor will get $1.8m from Hoechst over 18 months to speed development and manufacture of high temperature superconductor wires and the German will invest at least another $2m on the programme at its own plants in Frankfurt ; the US firm will also contribute $2.5m of assets to the joint venture and will retain all manufacturing and marketing rights in North America and Mexico ; in Europe , the two will establish operations for joint manufacture and marketing of wires . |
24 | Determinations were made at approximately 50–100 ft ( 15–30 m ) intervals from top Carboniferous to TD in each sampled well ; the minimum amount of section over which measurements were made was 18 ft ( 6 m ) and the maximum was 11240 ft ( 3425 m ) . |
25 | It stated that anyone who moved into a property valued at less that £10 a year could be sent back to the place where he or she was last legally settled if they were likely to become chargeable to the poor rates . |
26 | They should also be run in a special armoured cable ( or PVC cable in a conduit ) and buried at least 450 mm ( 18 in ) underground . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Watford Tackle Lady Chapels on the Grand Union Canal came out of its recent dolddrums and gave almost half the field in the Watford Tackle midweek Open at least one chub . |
29 | A letter to the council from Bowhill Construction , of Middleton St George , claims the hospital would employ at least 80 people and could be open by September 1993 . |
30 | A letter to the council from Bowhill Construction , of Middleton St George , claims the hospital would employ at least 80 people and could be open by September , 1993 . |