Example sentences of "at [adv] [art] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But all at once the light-hearted feel to the conversation had flown .
2 Even though chronic hepatitis C appears to be an indolent disease in most patients , the observation that at least a fifth develop cirrhosis and as many as a quarter progress to liver failure indicates that chronic hepatitis C is not a benign disease .
3 The response by ’ tallies ’ as they like to be known was so good that at least a hundred had to be turned away .
4 Switchboard operator , who reckons she takes at least a dozen calls a day from France , has joined the classes .
5 But at least the young have education on their side .
6 Three points became one , but at least the faithful have something to cheer about and the revival might just be under way .
7 If that suggests an odd set of priorities in what is still quaintly called a players ' game , at least the 21 wore the familiar red jersey with the famous crest , white shorts and blue and green socks .
8 The server needs to be at least an 80386 machine running MS-DOS 4.0 up , any version of OS/2 from 1.3 up , Microsoft LAN Manager 2.0 or 2.1 or Manager Services for Macintosh 1.0 ; Novell NetWare NFS 1.1 , ODI-compliant network adaptor ( Token-Ring or Ethernet ) .
9 And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea .
10 We have already seen through looking at where the widowed lived that in England , as throughout the world , the family was the biggest single resource for older people in trouble .
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