Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daytime fishing entails at least twenty hours , probably more , to fish the best times . |
| 2 | What could entice an FE college principal to spend at least one day per week out of college between Easter and summer 1990 , at a time of year always administratively active and this year particularly critical with the preparation and prospect of delegation schemes and new College Councils ? |
| 3 | An earthquake in Mexico City kills at least 2,000 . |
| 4 | The IBM employee gets at least five days training every year . |
| 5 | Thus was it possible for one new Sprinter vehicle to replace at least two old DMU coaches . |
| 6 | The court will then fix a directions appointment giving at least two days ' notice to the parties . |
| 7 | Violent anti-government demonstrations on Feb. 7 in Karachi , the capital of Sind province left at least 60 people dead and over 100 injured . |
| 8 | But I would suppose that the Home Office has at least some information as to the judges ' tariff , and probably a great deal . |
| 9 | A secret report by the UK Atomic Energy Authority ( AEA ) has warned that the UN Coalition left at least 40 tonnes of depleted uranium on the Gulf War battlefield in Kuwait and southern Iraq . |
| 10 | The Middle East International of Jan. 24 reported that three guerrillas died in the raid , and also that Israeli rockets hit a nearby shanty town killing at least nine women and children . |
| 11 | Every bream water has at least one set of imaginary tram-lines which a shoal of bream — or the tram , to maintain the metaphor — follow religiously . |
| 12 | Watford Tackle Lady Chapels on the Grand Union Canal came out of its recent dolddrums and gave almost half the field in the Watford Tackle midweek Open at least one chub . |
| 13 | The CEGB already has one nuclear power station at Sizewell , as well as planning permission to build at least one more . |
| 14 | On the material before me I think I should infer that the district judge attached at least some weight to the debtor 's arguments based on section 69 . |
| 15 | An adult tiger stands at least 3 ft ( 90 cm ) high at the shoulder . |
| 16 | CITY OF EDINBURGH women stayed on top of the Scottish League first division yesterday with a 99-48 win over an Edinburgh Royals side containing at least four players who have represented Scotland . |
| 17 | The new law immediately sparked off a political crisis as hardline Slovak nationalists began demonstrations and a hunger strike in protest against a clause allowing the official use of minority languages in towns or villages where the minority nationality formed at least 20 per cent of the population ( a large ethnic Hungarian minority , concentrated in southern Slovakia , was increasingly the target of nationalist hatred ; there were also Polish , Ukrainian and Gypsy communities ) . |
| 18 | This is an important topic since 95 per cent of rural households in the USA consume only groundwater , while half the US population consumes at least some groundwater ( Merchant et al. 1987 ) . |
| 19 | With a typical conveyancing transaction taking at least two months , thanks to the archaic system of conveyancing prevalent in England and Wales , borrowers will be lucky to have the benefit of the fixed rates for more than three months . |
| 20 | A PLEA for renewed export attacks on the North American food market left at least two substantial sectors of the Scottish food industry relatively unmoved last week . |
| 21 | The results presented above show that the 80 bp promoter fragment binds at least two different factors and that it is able to modulate transcription in both homologous and heterologous constructions . |
| 22 | The latter should include an ‘ A ’ level pass in a Mathematics subject containing at least fifty per cent Pure Mathematics or an ‘ AS ’ level pass at grade C or above in an approved Mathematics examination . |
| 23 | Although the government had suggested that anyone who applied would be permitted to make a visit , the Justice Ministry banned at least 42 dissidents from leaving South Korea on the grounds that their visit would " severely hurt national interests " . |
| 24 | Market research shows at least 3,500 practices plan to computerise in the next 12 months , and this is almost certainly a conservative figure . |
| 25 | A spokesman for the Amsterdam Fire Brigade said at least 30 flats had been destroyed . |
| 26 | Industrialised countries with a market economy possess at least some basic similarities and common elements of importance which allow comparative examination . |
| 27 | After the cover had gone to press , the piece was dropped because we felt , on reflection , that the Maxwell family deserved at least one week of post-mortem respite . |
| 28 | Although only one sequence for MUP and A2U is shown the urinary proteins are encoded by a gene family expressing at least seven closely related forms of the protein . |