Example sentences of "[adv] at least [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put lots on and reapply at least every two hours , as sweat , water , wind and towel friction will wear it away . |
| 2 | He has a habit of playing in at least the inaugural event held on one of his lay-outs and in December 1988 fully intended to play in the Austrian Open of 1989 . |
| 3 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 4 | Each month cardholders can either pay off their whole bill , in which case they pay no interest charges and the credit is ‘ free ’ for up to fifty six days ; or they can pay off at least the minimum amount , which is usually 5% or 5 , whichever is the greater . |
| 5 | There were no juke-boxes or Coke machines , but there were many shelves of books around the room and a selection of magazines and newspapers ; there were also at least a dozen chess-boards . |
| 6 | All regions have now drawn up at least a first round of projects for inclusion on the shopping lists . |
| 7 | He ‘ established methods of work , and initiated courses of improvement ’ under which by 1890 the average general death rate of Liverpool was declared by Sir John Simon [ q.v. ] to have been reduced by ‘ probably at least a fourth part ’ of the rate which prevailed when he became medical officer of health . |
| 8 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for sorting out at least the hon. Gentleman 's mathematics with obvious skill and knowledge . |
| 9 | Afterall a good horse will cost you a fortune to buy … and then having it trained and ridden by the best will set you back at least a thousand pounds a month … |
| 10 | The story of how such a principle was accepted by a war-time coalition government and why it was implemented in the form that it was in advance of all the other social security changes , is a useful illustration of the ways in which particular problems gain the attention of governments and how one social policy can be seen and adopted as at least a partial solution to those problems . |
| 11 | And was partially at least the inevitable consequence of the fact that the Murphy brothers were being prosecuted at the same time as the complaint against the arresting officers was being investigated . |
| 12 | genetic engineering and spare-part surgery — is beginning to offer hopes of , if not immortality , then at least a major extension of lifespan . |
| 13 | So again can you see you have other people to consider if you 've partners , but that 's one of the difficulties of having a partner , but then again think , if you do n't have a partner , that 's worse cos you 've nobody to communicate with , nobody to shout at , nobody to organize or organize you , er nobody ready made to go out with , you 've got it all to do yourself because your number one requirement when you 're left on your own is to get the company and the activity , whereas if you , if you are er living with a person then at least a certain amount of that is ready to hand . |
| 14 | If Labour 's petit Bourbons fail to recognise at last that the division of the non-Tory vote has for two decades made majority Labour government impossible , and that the Liberal Democrats are not going to disappear , then at least a disunited rump of the UK will be consigned forever to that category . |
| 15 | There at least the ideological differences have not been obfuscated by national divisions . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , by the early 1950s the extremes of difference between working and middle class women 's experiences , which had been the result chiefly of poverty on the one hand , and a cloistered existence in a home where at least the heavy chores were performed by domestic servants on the other , had disappeared . |