Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

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31 UN forces always come with at least a dollop of moral authority .
32 Curran said : ‘ I 'm convinced that to finish top of the table we must win our remaining two home games with at least a victory and a draw needed in the away ties .
33 But there is a reverse to this , for wider security concerns require that neighbourhood men accomplish community policing equipped with at least a side-arm , sometimes more , flak jacket and baton , as well as personal radio .
34 The first priority tomorrow must be to come away from the game with at least a point .
35 He had to reach the President 's cabin with at least an hour of daylight in which to plan his defence and with time to get through to Caspar on the President 's radio .
36 After coming up with at least an estimate of your starting point , you need to decide where you want to go .
37 Put the phone down we 'll call you back in in just a second because i , we ca n't really make out what you 're saying .
38 Mr we will show the jury in in just a moment but could you just tell us first of all what the card says , in general terms .
39 And if in fact we have n't got anything and we 've advertised in the Yellow Pages , Evening Press , we 've advertised in in quite a number of other er bridal magazines , but have we got information as to the the the benefits derived from each one of those ?
40 He bolted up by five lengths ( could have been 20 ) at Kelso last time , and is very well in on just a 10lb higher mark .
41 He needed the run when not disgraced in a valuable handicap last time , and is well in on just a 5lb higher mark than when impressively landing the Mildmay Of Flete at the Cheltenham Festival in March .
42 John Webber 's gelding is well in on just a 5lb higher mark than when landing the Mildmay Of Flete at the Festival in March .
43 This improving sort is well in on just a 5lb higher mark than his recent two-length success , and clearly has the beating of Fu 's Lady on that form .
44 The hearing will take place in Ipswich on April 6 , but a final decision is not expected until at least a month later .
45 This supports the hypothesis that H pylori colonisation is a dynamic process with an active phase of infection and subsequent elimination of the bacteria in at least a proportion of infected people .
46 The most important evidence relating to such differences has come from CT brain scans ( computed tomography ) , which have shown appearances suggestive of slight cerebral atrophy in at least a quarter of schizophrenic patients in varying diagnostic subgroups and at varying stages of the disorder .
47 These sweeps nearly always result in at least a warning from the referee .
48 Er through to quite a lot of of violent crime .
49 And er I so so I brought her and her three friends that she 'd run , chummed about with them and I give them a good talking to for about an hour .
50 He had had barely a glimpse of what the Ping Tiao hierarchy were up to for almost a week now .
51 The creation of some form of consultative body had been promised since at least a year earlier .
52 This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby .
53 In actual fact in later times erm , possibly when that er when this was no longer in use , erm they er put five , instead of two or three coal rails , on the bunker , erm they put five on at least a couple of the engines .
54 On at least a morning a week at ‘ family specialist ’ hotels , children are collected , given breakfast and taken on a trip or entertained for a few hours so their parents can enjoy a morning on their own .
55 However , many of the seemingly-barren rocks carry a sparse flora of algae or lichens , and few damp crevices or patches of soil are without at least a microflora of algae , bacteria or fungi .
56 A certain self-reflexiveness even finds its way into otherwise realistic novels , such as Anthony Burgess 's Earthly Powers , as if no contemporary novel could quite be complete without at least a moment of creative hesitation and self-examination .
57 The sample was obtained by selecting one in five of the 42 per cent of people who left school in Scotland in 1977–8 with few or no qualifications ( i.e. without at least a grade O in the Scottish Certificate of Education ) .
58 Indeed , there is a time lag in the uptake of many research ideas of up to at least a decade in some instances ( 18 ) .
59 Succeeding chapters will therefore address themselves to at least a beginning attempt at this task .
60 It was films depicting behaviour which seemed perverse or deviant which were seen as more suitable for private therapy than for public consumption , since the possibility of harm to at least a proportion of the wider public could not be ruled out .
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