Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everything was in ruins : rising through the rubble were banks of communications and control consoles , housed in cabinets with flowing , plastic lines that must have been designed at least a century previously . |
| 2 | He must have come at least a mile across the fields and climbed over a stock-proof fence . ’ |
| 3 | To offer such intercession is considered at least a presumption and at worst occultist , using the magic of candles . |
| 4 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 5 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 6 | In the past , many of those with a responsibility for encouraging good governance have shown at least an absence of discouragement to management excesses . |
| 7 | Shildon-born Mr Jackson said : ‘ To be a good instructor you must have had at least a season 's skiing on snow and if you want to get basic qualifications you would be charged around £3,000 . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 9 | He 's a good motivator , has endeared himself to the players and if they 're on your side as a manager you 've got at least a fighting chance . |
| 10 | I imagine we 've got at least an hour before any more humans come , and it 's not a lot different to a truck . ’ |
| 11 | Any baby soother should be played at least a couple of feet away from her head . |
| 12 | In the modern world , sport has become at once a symbol of supposed supremacy , a means of keeping healthy , an opiate for the hopeless and the unemployed , an excuse for jingoism , and perhaps most of all , a source of considerable income . |
| 13 | This brief survey has provided at least a taste of current applications of mathematics and computers in the service of museums and archaeology . |
| 14 | Although she was two or three inches shorter than Charlie , she must have weighed at least a stone more than he did ; a genuine heavyweight . |
| 15 | In the face of this varied sense of internal malaise , the return of the Thatcher government , with its young-Turk generation of monetarists and entrepreneurs , marked at least a change of gear , even if the privatization of publicly-owned enterprises was a very minor feature of the Conservative manifesto in 1979 . |
| 16 | All have spent at least a year abroad in France or Germany , usually as assistants . |
| 17 | We only had two days on Fregate and I could easily have spent at least a week . |
| 18 | And it can be done on the morning after the end of the previous month , whereas manually our gentleman on the tall stool might have spent at least a week preparing it , and getting them out , and that 's a week that you have n't got your money in . |
| 19 | Size of establishment was once again significant ( see Table 21 ) indicating that all but two ( 13% ) of the large libraries allocated at least a quarter of a specified staff member 's time to training . |
| 20 | The journey was meant to last three hours , but the train always left at least an hour late . |
| 21 | She was surprised that they had n't sent at least a detective . |
| 22 | ‘ I have kept at least a score of them during my life here , till each decayed in turn . |
| 23 | Today , no reputable historian or biblical scholar would deny that the earliest of the Gospels was composed at least a generation after the events it describes . |
| 24 | It is difficult to identify farms inside these settlements , while related field systems have been suggested at only a handful of sites , including the presumed Romano-British fields at Braintree and the sequence of enclosures at Brampton . |
| 25 | I saw a lot of old friends , and wore a dashing outfit purchased at perhaps an extravagance in a London second hand shop — but from the compliments , I feel now it was worth it and that , feeling good in it , I will wear it quite a lot . |