Example sentences of "to spend at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of their broad-based agreements with the IBA and the MU , ILR stations are obliged to spend at least 3 per cent of their net advertising revenue on live musicians . |
| 2 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |
| 3 | The vernacular of any way of life can only be absorbed ‘ through the skin ’ by immersing oneself in its people ; and to this end you would be foolish not to spend at least a year ( preferably two ) working on mixed farms in the district in which you hope to settle , making friends and winning the respect of the countrymen who will be your neighbours . |
| 4 | As part of the post-war baby bulge , I am confidently expecting to spend at least 20 years in retirement along with an unprecedented number of my peers . |
| 5 | The suggested version has similarities to Postman 's Knock , too , with a couple having to spend at least one minute observing before they are allowed back into the room . |
| 6 | Keegan said : ‘ If I sold him , I would only have to spend at least the same amount on a replacement . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was intending to spend at least one night mid-week at home . ’ |
| 8 | Each time Celia re-entered the clinic he could not deny a feeling of overwhelming relief , although he still tried to spend at least one night at home mid-week , if only for the brief half-hour in the morning , which he was able to devote to Harry . |
| 9 | I have only had the machine for six weeks now , but try to spend at least one hour every day with it . |
| 10 | This required every Elf to spend at least part of the year as part of a military force , and to provide wargear for himself . |
| 11 | Such women ( I include myself ) are probably a majority in the movement ( it was the sort of feeling that brought us into it in the first place , and anyway we have more time than mothers ) but not among women as a whole , most of whom appear to want to spend at least part of their lives having and raising children . |
| 12 | The Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) Education and Enterprise Initiative has set targets for ten per cent of teachers each year to be seconded to industry and for all school leavers to spend at least two weeks on Work Experience . |
| 13 | At the same time the Secretary of State gave notice that for certain categories of crime where life sentences had been passed , the offenders could expect to spend at least 20 years in prison . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | You should be able to spend at least two or three hours learning with Carrie . ’ |
| 16 | To complete our user records , which the EC Directive also obliges us to keep and up-date , could you please , as Horticultural representative on the Computing Sub-Group , co-ordinate a response from AD , GD and HD as to the names of all operators who are estimated to spend at least one hour per day working at a multi-user PC as part of their normal duties ( I 've already got user names for single-user machines ) . |
| 17 | Were he to be called in the immigration debate Joshua would most certainly abandon the bookshop where he planned to spend at least part of the morning . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But before he 's even fit enough to be flown home , doctors say he 'll have to spend at least a fortnight in hospital . |