Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last sentence begs at least four questions , and will be analysed in some detail . |
| 2 | A SIMPLE ANATOMICAL weakness causes at least one in 50 men to suffer from inguinal ( groin ) hernias . |
| 3 | There is no cure for this , but fortunately it is usually found that such processes do not occur in some fraction of photoionization events , so that the observed spectrum contains at least some intensity in an unshifted line , accompanied by various ‘ satellites ’ corresponding to the energy loss processes . |
| 4 | These results show that tenascin has at least 16 consecutive fibronectin like type III repeats . |
| 5 | Managing a curriculum has at least three interlocking components : ( a ) a formal statement ( more or less detailed or precise ) ; ( b ) those who deliver ( teachers ) , and who enjoy more or less autonomy , responsibility , public confidence , etc ; ( c ) a hierarchy which monitors and supervises delivery , carries varying degrees of ‘ clout ’ vis-à-vis teachers , and operates at varying degrees of distance from the classroom . |
| 6 | Each yacht has at least one spacious bathroom complete with vanity unit , mirror and electric shower option . |
| 7 | Similarly , purposeful action involves at least implicit recognition of some future achievement , but a general sense of the future could not have resulted until man applied his mind systematically to the problem of future events . |
| 8 | This study goes at least some way towards overcoming the problems of other work discussed by Box and Hale ( 1986 , pp. 74–5 ) , in that it relies on self-reported victimisation rather than police figures on recorded crime , and it controls for other socio-demographic variables . |
| 9 | Labour has at least two good candidates : Mr Harold Walker , deputy to Speaker Weatherill , and Miss Betty Boothroyd , who has proved her competence in the chair and would be acceptable to all parties . |
| 10 | Market research shows at least 3,500 practices plan to computerise in the next 12 months , and this is almost certainly a conservative figure . |
| 11 | The IBM employee gets at least five days training every year . |
| 12 | Daytime fishing entails at least twenty hours , probably more , to fish the best times . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ To do all we need in order to deviate the lava means at least 30 working hours . |
| 14 | Which means that every E. coli gene of the E. coli genome traversing the human intestine mutates at least 2.5 x 10 8 times daily . |
| 15 | The largest user uses at least one of its eight services daily ; this is the department providing an information service to the company at large . |
| 16 | A recent survey by RoSPA has revealed that every British household has at least one dangerous home-fitted plug , while in most other European countries , the USA — and even Russia — electrical goods are sold with plugs fitted . |
| 17 | But Dr Sandler 's circuit has at least three problems . |
| 18 | The Queen has at least three palaces , two castles and several houses . |
| 19 | A. Every single working day , the machine undergoes at least one quality control test using a sample with a known quantity of cholesterol , and often a second sample at a different level . |
| 20 | Watson 's 1844 plan shows at least twenty-eight thatched buildings , but eleven years later the town had only two . |
| 21 | Only 48pc of the ballot papers sent out were returned to the Electoral Reform Society and , despite a 72pc vote against independence , the law requires at least half of all parents to take part before the result can stand . |
| 22 | The results presented above show that the 80 bp promoter fragment binds at least two different factors and that it is able to modulate transcription in both homologous and heterologous constructions . |
| 23 | Wounds only heal , and W loss is only stopped , if magical healing is used or if a character with the Heal Wounds skill spends at least 3 rounds attending to the bleeding character . |
| 24 | An adult tiger stands at least 3 ft ( 90 cm ) high at the shoulder . |
| 25 | There are more than 200,000 cubic millimetres of neocortex , and every cubic millimetre contains at least 50,000 neurons with 500 million synapses ; these figures may give you some idea of the complexity of the computer we have in our heads . |
| 26 | Usually each main point has at least one important detail . |
| 27 | A body needs at least two people to carry it any distance from a car , and it 's not easily disguised . |
| 28 | The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 allows local authorities to appoint assistants to political groups to help councillors in those groups with their duties as councillors , Each of the three largest political groups is allowed to make one such appointment , provided that the group contains at least one-tenth of the membership of the council . |
| 29 | ( ii ) the death of a member has left a recognised body with no member able to exercise voting rights in respect of at least one share in the body provided ( a ) that within three months of the death the recognised body has at least one member able to exercise such voting rights , and ( b ) that until proviso ( a ) has been fulfilled either at least one share in the body is beneficially owned by a solicitor or a recognised body or the only personal representative in respect of at least one share in the body is a solicitor or a recognised body . |
| 30 | He is especially proud of his large collection of hunting birds , which occupies a substantial mews and tends to spill out into the palace itself , so that every room has at least one large bird of prey on its perch . |