Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at least [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trial was expected to last at least a year . |
| 2 | These are so popular that you will need to book at least a couple of months in advance . |
| 3 | The clear inference must be that the average knight was expected to have at least the £120 a year postulated by Smith , and indeed the median of twenty-three in Buckinghamshire , Suffolk and Sussex in 1524–5 lay between £120 and £160 , while nationally the median of eighteen feodary surveys works out at £204 . |
| 4 | Well if we do a stall I would really like to have at least a leaflet on new recycling . |
| 5 | If they have n't remained constant over our sampling period , right , then there 's no point in making our sample predictions , alright , we 've got to have at least the confidence that our model is re relatively stable over our small sample , right , in order to make any sort of predictions about the behaviour of the dependent variable that we are looking at and the parameter of interest out of sample more often than not when we have parameter instability that does n't always signal a change in government policy , it often signals the fact that you 've got a very poor model , a model er is mis-specified and so if we detect a structural change in our model , we first of all try and explain why it may come about |
| 6 | " And I win over you in one way — I 'm going to have at least a weekend in Joanna . |
| 7 | He worked in a fair frenzy for two hours , making demands of the paint he 'd never made before , plastering it on with palette knife and fingers , attempting to capture at least the shape and proportion of the thing 's head and neck . |
| 8 | On the Saturdays I would scrub the kitchen floor , black and polish the kitchen grate , and polish the knives , so that my mother could have a little rest on her return from several hours cleaning , sometimes having to walk at least a mile to her regular place of work . |
| 9 | Well they 'll probably have to put at least the bone in there , it 's a bone graft . |
| 10 | Each tag will have to hold at least the information : This will mean that the few home addresses or home buckets which have large numbers of synonyms will have to allocate a lot of space for these tags . |
| 11 | HP seems to have at least a couple of options : an immediate Thunderbird response , levelling the playing field with Sun right now — with ships in October — or a big splash in the Autumn , with immediate deliveries . |
| 12 | B : There 's a yellow VW outside Sue 's house Here B 's contribution , taken literally , fails to answer A's question , and thus seems to violate at least the maxims of Quantity and Relevance . |
| 13 | But before he 's even fit enough to be flown home , doctors say he 'll have to spend at least a fortnight in hospital . |
| 14 | The development of a GIS capable of storing and manipulating the volumes of data required for a global research programme is still some way off , but smaller GIS have been used to attempt to provide at least a beginning . |
| 15 | The revitalised company that started life building its own 16-bit minicomputers , ultimately plunged into bankruptcy and returned from the dead as a library automation systems specialist , may make two more acquisitions this month , president and chief executive Stephen Sadler told the Toronto Society of Financial Analysts — and it expects to make at least an acquisition a month for the rest of the next 12 months . |
| 16 | Finally , resolved to find at least a change of heat , I went on to Khartoum , which had the merit at least of being dry in contrast to the swelter up north . |
| 17 | She had to get her hands back on the reins , had to re-establish at least a degree of control over her own life . |
| 18 | In the meantime , however , the Cubans sought to gain at least a breathing space by making a little known but highly significant approach to the United States . |
| 19 | ‘ You must have thought you 'd brought enough work to last at least a couple of days . |
| 20 | A master file record in a partially inverted file will always be required to hold at least the data on fields that are not inverted . |
| 21 | And this is why any new owner is strongly advised to have at least a safety inspection of the system carried out immediately on moving in . |
| 22 | The G M B and the trade union generally need to have at least the resources the management have . |
| 23 | Now if Hereford are to build on last week 's success they need to get at least a draw at Gigg lane . |
| 24 | It is not a place you can just go to for the day and therefore you need to spend at least a couple of days getting there overnight , coming back again and er , for a family of four I calculate that even taking one 's own car across the Channel , the average cost for a family of four , is of the order of five or six hundred pounds . |
| 25 | In particular consider time limits — both for enacting and for advising , perhaps the performers have to spend at least a minute improvising before they can request advice . |