Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] at [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figures are sketchy but all these categories combined appear to total at least 100m , or over 9% of the Chinese population — nearly 20% of the adult population . |
| 2 | I have observed that brichardi left with their parents stop growing at about 1¼″ — in the confines of an aquarium they are likely to be killed if they grow any larger . |
| 3 | Organisers hope to raise at least £5,000 for Help the Aged . |
| 4 | More specifically , we have found that there are adaptive reasons that seem to explain at least part of the variation that Lewontin cites in each of his examples . |
| 5 | Set to operate at around 60°C to 65°C |
| 6 | SCO claims 28% of all Unixes sold on all platforms against SunSoft 's 25% , though Open Desktop sales remain stuck at around 35% of its business instead of the 60% it envisaged at the launch of Open Desktop 2.0 this time last year . |
| 7 | The rich countries reckon to have at least 95% of their adults literate . |
| 8 | The guests are legless anyway ; they 've paid at least £75 per head and shelled out for the tombola , raffle and auction . |
| 9 | He declined to discuss the price , which some have pegged at over $1 million . |
| 10 | The result is that first-time buyers now have to find at least 6% of the valuation to put down in advance . |
| 11 | ASSURED TENANCIES — residential tenancies in properties that are newly built or have had at least £5000 spent on improving them in the two years before they were first let . |
| 12 | Investors can take out a combination Pep , allowing them to choose the balance they want between the two plans , though they have to put at least £500 in each one . |
| 13 | And we 're also having a sponsored Tree Best , where we 're hoping that lots of children will come along dressed up as trees , and have raised at least £10 sponsorship each and we 're having performances on a rainforest theme , and a dancer who will be doing a dance for rainforest , and there 's some rainforest type music and things like that , and there 'll be prizes and certificates for the children who are trees , and there 'll be an exhibition that head office are launching . |
| 14 | So far , 97 operations due to have been performed early this week have been cancelled , 80 out of the 200 national health service beds in the hospital have been rendered unusable and damage totalling at least £250,000 has been caused . |
| 15 | Most GCE entrants have attained at least grades A , A , B. |
| 16 | RECENT floods in southern Iran have caused at least $300 million of damage , destroying more than 130,000 houses , Tehran Radio has reported . |
| 17 | Professional investors have put at least $5 billion to work on the short side of the market . |
| 18 | We need to raise at least £50,000 to put our plans into effect . |
| 19 | Now I think that the concern that erm I have , and it 's shared by colleagues I have to say at both County and at er District Council level , is that none of those will really fully provide a proper strategic planning service and therefore the , the , the threat to proper forward planning of a coordinated nature across a wider area of land such as is er currently taking place in Sussex , West Sussex and other counties and which is desperately needed as we 've seen in the context of the flooding that we 've just been talking about , that is in er great danger of being undermined and the alternatives that the government is , is putting forward would in my view not go anywhere at all towards meeting the needs of strategic planning . |
| 20 | Nor are Northern industries profiting : they have forfeited at least $30 billion in exports every year since the debt crisis erupted in 1982 . |
| 21 | Inevitably the national selectors are able only to select from those players who have achieved at least county level . |