Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] least [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hand , the same one he injured in April last year , needs at least two weeks ' rest , but he should be back in the ring in February . |
| 2 | His hand , the same one he injured in April last year , needs at least two weeks ' rest , but he should be back in the ring in February . |
| 3 | Each year four million cervical smears are taken , and each one needs at least five minutes to check for the signs of disease . |
| 4 | From a crazy catholic mixture of grape varieties ( Cabernet Sauvignon , Malbec , Merlot , Syrah , Cabernet Franc , Pinot Noir and Tannat are all in the '90 ) , Guibert of Mas de Daumas Gassac produces a spectacular red that needs at least 10 years ' cellaring . |
| 5 | A vineyard needs at least 400–500 millimetres of water per year : in Champagne the vines receive an annual average of 662 millimetres of rain over 176 days . |
| 6 | HIT always needs at least three arguments ( the hitter , the person hit , and the thing used to hit — we might call these the AGENT , the ACTED-UPON and the INSTRUMENT ) . |
| 7 | Automatic crystallisation is not a term of art but covers at least two situations which at first blush appear dissimilar ; one is where the charge is made to crystallise on the happening of an event provided for in the charge without there being any need for a further act by the chargee and the other is where the charge is made to crystallise on the serving of a notice of crystallisation on the company . |
| 8 | Most are in the US , but Europe has at least 10 facilities . |
| 9 | A B-tree is said to be of order m when every node has at least m/2 children , and at most m children , except the root and the leaf nodes . |
| 10 | In the decoding direction , hard has at least two senses : one which is the opposite of " easy " , and another which is the opposite of " soft " — in other words , hard is ambiguous or polysemous . |
| 11 | First is the mosaic from building XII , 2 , Cirencester ( Neal 1981 , no. 28 ) which has at least two panels of four-swastika arrangement ( and which , incidentally , belongs to the same building as another labyrinth design : Neal 1981 , no. 27 ) . |
| 12 | Thus the general pattern is that any place in England and Wales ( other than the London Boroughs and some Metropolitan Districts ) has at least two councils and possibly three , a situation which many consider to be wasteful in terms of administrative costs . |
| 13 | Under an agreement which has at least two years to run , Nestle has a 49 p.c. interest in the holding company which owns L'Oreal with the rest in the hands of the founding family . |
| 14 | A woman who has at least two years ' service as at the beginning of the eleventh week prior to the expected week of confinement qualifies for maternity leave . |
| 15 | The root has at least two children , unless it is a leaf . |
| 16 | Hinting perhaps of bringing subtle pressures to bear , Watkins reminds us that SunSoft has at least 1,000 engineers working full-time on its Unix implementation , many more than USL has in its entire organisation . |
| 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 | The bad news has at least three components . |
| 20 | The variable-reluctance stepping motor has at least three phases , but the phase currents need only be switched on or off ; the current polarity is irrelevant to torque production . |
| 21 | The workers feel the package is derisory , particularly as they have accepted minimum wage rises over the past few years and Yarrow has at least three years ' work on its books . |
| 22 | THE ONLY known surviving image of a fast-bowling legend as a boy : as a man he has at least 307 reasons to remember a glittering Test career . |
| 23 | India has at least 20 languages in common use and many others are widely spoken . |
| 24 | Avoid scanning photographs if at all possible but if you must then use a scanner that has at least 64 levels of grey and is capable of outputting TIFF format files . |
| 25 | His promotion of mathematics illustrates at least two senses in which the interests of the natural sciences could be subordinate to those of theology . |
| 26 | The case of a force fit of pin to block can be recognized as the intersecting domain contains at least two pairs of intersecting surfaces ( see Figure 3.11 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It contains at least 40 stars , but binoculars show it only as a dim , slightly elliptical object of low surface brightness . |
| 29 | Ad she wants at least sixteen leafleters this weekends . |
| 30 | Mine starts at least two weeks before I begin fishing and continues , albeit less frequently , for as long as I am fishing that water . |