Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crops can be safely cocked or loaded onto tripods at least a day before they are fit to bale or cart : a most important factor in unsettled weather conditions . |
| 2 | Under these circumstances at least a gesture towards listening to the local people has been made . |
| 3 | Thus mild steel structures , for instance , can generally put up with cracks at least a metre long without breaking . |
| 4 | Mr Ramsay said sorting out Mr Bond 's finances would take a team of accountants at least a year , with the investigation stretching around the world . |
| 5 | His announcement implies that he had made pendulum clocks at least a year before then . |
| 6 | The little terraced houses , with gardens front and back , that Loudon advocates have now doubtless been demolished as substandard , for each floor could measure as little as 12 feet by 12 feet ; but they were not only a great advance on the slum housing in industrial towns ; they provided interiors that could give the domestic virtues at least a chance of growth . |
| 7 | I 'm not bothered about them you 've got tre you can go in the countryside and see that you 've got trees at well a lot of us have got them outside our own houses . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ The babies are sold on and shipped round the world as soon as they are weaned from their mothers at about a year or 18 months . |
| 9 | There is a new requirement that people organising demonstrations and processions in the streets should tell the police at least a week in advance , which is a good thing . |
| 10 | The experience he has gained in the mines at immediately a man g a man who has been in the mines goes down there again his er n er he gives himself away , because , just because of the experiences . |
| 11 | Furthermore there was in many of these activities at least a hint of some of the better cultural values . |
| 12 | He could tell them little about the enemy , save that his party , coming here , had crossed the tracks of a great host in the Kilsyth area of Strathkelvin , by the horse-droppings at least a day old . |