Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at least [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | However , about a third of compounds owned at least one mango tree , and about 10% one or more pawpaw ( papaya ) trees . |
2 | Even among subjects examined at least three years after successful treatment of H pylori infection , the extent of gastric metaplasia did not change significantly . |
3 | They found that in 1988 , over 98 per cent of all US homes had at least one television . |
4 | Although all but 20 library authorities noted at least some courses offered by central units , not all of these libraries perceived central training staff as having any responsibility for their staff . |
5 | Many are English , about which I have no objection , but it would be nice if more Scottish pubs had at least one tap for an indigenous product . |
6 | For this reason ( among others ) families directed at least one son into the Church . |
7 | Yet , because of a prevailing conservatism among the sport 's administrators , most of these changes took at least twenty years to come about . |
8 | Selecting only fathers and daughters described as " compositors " or " printers " , 52 families had a printer father and 38 families had at least one daughter described as " printer " or " compositor " ( 7 families had two daughters so described ) . |
9 | In total the floods left at least 137 people dead or missing and some 160,000 homeless . |
10 | Mr Forte said the present trading difficulties had at least one benefit — in drawing the Government 's attention to the industry . |
11 | The camps were Sabra and Chatila and the result was a massacre : Christian Lebanese militiamen let into the area by the Israelis slaughtered at least 400 men , women and children . |
12 | Overall , 17 of 18 patients survived at least 5 years . |
13 | All 26 patients completed at least one year of treatment , including 16 patients receiving cyclosporin and 10 patients receiving placebo . |
14 | Eighteen ( 75% ) patients who received chemotherapy and eight ( 67% ) symptomatically treated patients completed at least two questionnaires on quality of life , including one at baseline , and were thus considered evaluable . |
15 | The General Household Survey indicates that , nationally , about 58 per cent of households had at least one car in 1980 ( Central Statistical Office 1982 ) but that around 70 per cent of rural households have at least one car . |
16 | Altogether 118 ( 65% ) of the 181 patients smoked at least one cigarette a day , and the proportion of smokers in each of the histol0gical categories was similar : 10 ( 67% ) of the 15 without neoplasia , 12 ( 63% ) of the 19 with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade I , 18 ( 64% ) of the 28 with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade II , 71 ( 66% ) of the 108 with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade III , and 7 ( 64% ) of the 11 with microinvasive carcinoma . |
17 | We found that 65% of the patients smoked at least one cigarette a day , a proportion nearly twice as high as that in the general population . |
18 | If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts . |
19 | This guarantee applies only to confirmed bookings made at least 6 weeks before departure . |
20 | Almost half the colleges made at least some form of provision for a group of young people who up until 1971 had been considered ‘ ineducable ’ . |
21 | All words in these sentences were in the RM1 lexicon and most sentences contained at least two words present in the RM1 list of collocations . |
22 | Hezbollah forces launched at least three attacks in Israel 's " security zone " during early July . |
23 | 6 Colleges had at least three graduates in this area , but only 2 each of Universities and Polytechnics listed this number . |
24 | Consequently she never stopped bellyaching to Daisy about how all the other Pony Club members had at least three ponies , and how humiliating it was having to hack to meetings when everyone else rolled up either in the latest horse boxes with grooms , or driving Porsches with telephones . |
25 | Twenty six children received at least two courses of daily prednisone in the regimen described . |
26 | Police said at least two youths were involved . |
27 | Fontana et al showed that in the first three years of life 97% of helthy children had at least one vowel movement every other day and after the third year , 95% of the children had this pattern . |
28 | Pathologist Dr Chris Johnson told the court that the father-of-four grown-up children had at least seven pints of alcohol in his blood and had overdosed on 30 anti-depressant tablets . |
29 | All the large cities had at least two stations , the town and the cantonment . |
30 | But most of the groups had at least two members who were able to rectify the situation . |