Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , I think there are good reasons to encourage at least one food supermarket in the city centre . |
| 2 | However , about a third of compounds owned at least one mango tree , and about 10% one or more pawpaw ( papaya ) trees . |
| 3 | The federal government had proposed that enactment of its September 1991 constitutional reform proposals [ see p. 38429 ] should depend on approval by seven provinces representing at least 50 per cent of Canada 's population , and the NDP could thus have an unexpected degree of influence over their fate . |
| 4 | Masking is such a common operation that many computers provide at least one arithmetic or logical instruction which can specify a mask as well as the primary operands . |
| 5 | All parties gaining at least 10 per cent of electoral support in each of the nine regions would send an equal number of representatives to an upper house . |
| 6 | Farmers in the past , just as now have had to weigh their goods somewhere , but it seems a curious activity to carry out in the middle of a field and down through quite a number of generations ( the weights span at least two centuries ) . |
| 7 | Although wishing to increase membership , Council was anxious that direct entry was not seen as an easy option and instructed the M&R Committee to apply rigorously the requirement that the candidates demonstrate at least five years ' experience at senior level in credit management and to raise to 30 years the minimum age . |
| 8 | Marxists face at least two major problems . |
| 9 | In the second set of interviews , by contrast , when asked , five out of six informants recall at least one grandparent . |
| 10 | Even among subjects examined at least three years after successful treatment of H pylori infection , the extent of gastric metaplasia did not change significantly . |
| 11 | However its significance may gradually have been more fully appreciated in the 1960s as a series of papers and books provided at least four ingredients which emphasized the necessity to consider man in physical geography . |
| 12 | A further 100 seats were set aside for members to be appointed proportionally among political parties winning at least 5 per cent of the vote , including 20 reserved for overseas Chinese . |
| 13 | For instance , did you know that on average they have increased spending on books and equipment by ninety percent and that sixty percent of schools employ at least one more teacher and many employ more classroom support staff and that morale among teachers is widely reported to be higher , even where before those teachers opposed grant maintained status . |
| 14 | The law envisaged presidential elections held over two rounds , between candidates aged at least 40 and of the Moslem religion . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) All speakers recognise at least two distinct codes , " Creole/ Patois " or " Black Talk " and London English ( usually called just " ordinary English " ) . |
| 16 | Seats* Percentage Proportional Constituency Total of vote** representation seats BSP 47.15 97 114 211 UDF 37.84 75 69 144 BZNS 8.03 16 0 16 MRF 6.03 12 11 23 Fatherland Union *** 0 2 2 BSDP 0.05 0 1 1 Fatherland Party of Labour *** 0 1 1 Independents *** 0 2 2 Others 0.90 0 0 0 Total 200 200 400 *Only parties receiving at least 4 per cent of valid votes in all multi-member constituencies could win seats on a proportional basis ( although other parties could and did win direct election ) . |
| 17 | They found that in 1988 , over 98 per cent of all US homes had at least one television . |
| 18 | Although all the words have at least one sense bearing the property for which the root was originally selected , it must be noted that to locate all words bearing a particular semantic feature must involve the careful selection of several roots ( e.g. to find nouns with a [ +female ] feature , sprouts should begin from ’ female ’ , ’ woman ’ , ’ girl ’ and possibly ’ wife ’ ) . |
| 19 | Most computers have at least two representations for numeric data , for example a fixed-point binary format in which arithmetic is performed , and a character string format used by transput devices . |
| 20 | Most shops have at least one windsurfing enthusiast , who should be happy to advise you further since you could become a future customer . |
| 21 | This is to portray extremes ; most clergy have at least some musical skill , and a good proportion of church musicians have some theological knowledge . |
| 22 | Unless hens have at least 800 square centimetres they will not be able to perform simple preening and stretching movements . |
| 23 | Make sure your paragraphs have at least one clear line space between them and that there are consistently 1 , 2 or 3 character spaces after a full stop , a question mark and an exclamation mark . |
| 24 | Try to select material which uses pictures to tell at least some of the story and then make sure that you exploit this in your use of it in the language class . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Third , much of the construction industry depends on formal companies subcontracting at least half of a total work programme to informals , many of whom in turn use tools produced by other jua kali artisans . |
| 27 | This disclosure only applies to : public or special category companies or subsidiaries of such companies , or companies satisfying at least two of the following criteria : |
| 28 | These finds suggest at least two methods of fishing , with line and net , and there may have been others . |
| 29 | All entries will be examined by a panel of judges containing at least one independent member , and their decision will be final . |
| 30 | In his speech , De Michelis urged EC countries to devote at least 0.25 per cent of their gross national product ( GNP ) towards investment in the Maghreb countries where demographic pressures were rendering them vulnerable to the forces of Islamic fundamentalism and encouraging mass migration to Europe . |