Example sentences of "[vb -s] at [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their debts are now more than £6.5m and chairman Sir John Hall says he needs at least a week to draw up another rescue package before he and his fellow directors will be in a position to open talks with Kevin Keegan about the vacant manager 's position . |
| 2 | The Combsburgh High School stages a Christmas pantomime in which every young Jack and Jill ( or Wayne and Tracy as they are all called today ) has at least a walk-on part . |
| 3 | VMS also offers the best clustering facilities and host functionality , and has at least a measure of openness with the addition of VMS Posix compliance . |
| 4 | She has at least an hour a day on it . |
| 5 | ‘ Every client I treat usually loses at least an inch — so it 's ideal if you 're going out for the evening and want to wear a specially tight outfit . ’ |
| 6 | In particular , Germany can be expected to become more outspoken in its demands that Britain surrenders at least a part of its ‘ budget rebate ’ , finally clinched by Mrs Thatcher in 1988 . |
| 7 | It employs at least a quarter of a million people , in operations large and small . |
| 8 | It takes at least a couple of seconds before I recognize the last straw . |
| 9 | It takes at least an hour to get the system clear and dry again , and is a very frustrating problem , particularly if it occurs in a competition . |
| 10 | Either tactic offers at least a chance of keeping trouble to the minimum . |
| 11 | Since the acquisition of premises ( other than where the entrepreneur purchases the premises as a going concern and merely takes over an existing catering enterprise ) normally involves at least a change of use and often the development of the premises , planning permission is required . |
| 12 | Any mention of radiocarbon dating necessarily involves at least a reference to dendrochronology , and the basic principles of this powerful technique are therefore also outlined ( see p.125 ) . |
| 13 | So one may take it that everyone receives at least a smattering ; and more flexible A-level and university courses make it possible for people to combine more advanced science with arts subjects in a way that was virtually impossible in my day . |
| 14 | Chapter 5 ( " Word Play in Action " ) promises at least a look at the socio-linguistic context of jokes , with particular emphasis on , and analysis of , real joke-capping sessions ; and Chiaro is to be commended for tackling an interesting aspect of joke-telling , in relation to discourse analysis , that has generally been neglected in book-length studies . |
| 15 | Psychoanalysis provides at least a language for talking about these matters , and contains useful speculative hypotheses . |