Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Healing rates in ex-smokers who stopped smoking at least one month before the start of treatment , however , are similar to those in smokers , suggesting that smoking also has an indirect effect , associated perhaps with specific behaviour or personality characteristics . |
| 2 | At its official relaunch , the new party leadership promised to field at least 250 candidates , and to concentrate on " politically interesting " seats , although it admitted that it could not win any . |
| 3 | Of the carers in the 1985 GHS who were living in the same household as the person receiving care , 51 per cent of women reported spending at least fifty hours a week giving help compared with only 39 per cent of men . |
| 4 | Bull also continued the fight with greater subtlety through the Daily Telegraph : he wrote for the Telegraph regularly in 1917 , either directly as " our political correspondent " , or indirectly by feeding information on the Bill to the paper , and this helped to keep at least one part of the Unionist press briefed with the official party line . |
| 5 | Each time Celia re-entered the clinic he could not deny a feeling of overwhelming relief , although he still tried to spend at least one night at home mid-week , if only for the brief half-hour in the morning , which he was able to devote to Harry . |
| 6 | The Israeli-Syrian track got off to the fastest start last year , when the new Rabin government promised to trade at least some of the Golan Heights for peace . |
| 7 | Donald Mackay , aged 41 , was jailed for life at the Old Bailey — and recommended to serve at least 40 years — for the murder of a prostitute , Ann Petherick , and for assaulting another prostitute , Rosemary Saunders . |
| 8 | The opposition press also said he 'd pupped at least five children . |
| 9 | The victorious pensioners were backed by friends and relatives who 'd collected at least fifteen thousand signatures for a series of petitions . |
| 10 | Later , much later , when I 'd refused at least seventeen attempts to ply me with drink , I found myself sitting at dinner , attempting to charm the ruling monarch 's fourth child . |
| 11 | Every house seemed to have at least one , sometimes several , of the distinctive mud-baked nests under its eaves . |
| 12 | Not to be outdone , Dave Doyle claimed to have at least 108 , but they washed off in the shower . |
| 13 | Later on , when we distributed publicity or went door to door visiting , we never failed to draw at least one family to come and see this new thing which had come to pass . |
| 14 | According to Charles Rycroft , Artemidorus required to know at least six facts about a dream before it could be interpreted — " Whether the events depicted in the dream were plausible or bizarre ; whether they were approximately interconnected ; whether they were customary for the dreamer ; what events prior to the dream could have influenced it ; and the dreamer 's name and occupation " . |
| 15 | He needed to finish at least third to wrest the title from Niki . |
| 16 | At a meeting held in Tunis , the states undertook to devote at least five per cent of their territory to nature conservation . |
| 17 | The man they chose , John Frohnmayer , feels he managed to do at least that . |
| 18 | So the family , we as a family were better off than the majority of er of families er in so far that er er whilst we were a a fair sized family , we did have at least some income , in the form of unemployment pay er that my father received . |
| 19 | On leaving the squadron did take at least two of its old Hurricane Is with it . |
| 20 | The £100,000 initiative thought to be the first of its kind in Britain aimed to keep at least ten Darlington families from eviction . |
| 21 | As stout and weathered as an old vessel , it appeared to hold at least two of everything . |
| 22 | The government still intends to introduce Islam 's sharia law , but only once the people have been ‘ educated ’ , a process expected to take at least three years . |
| 23 | It must , however , be remembered that in all the studies he reviewed , all the employees had completed at least primary education . |
| 24 | From 1833 , when he obtained his first two commissions including the period of his partnership with Moffatt between 1839 and 1845 , Scott had completed at least 167 new buildings and 65 restorations . |
| 25 | By six the same evening the route had received at least five repeat ascents , and because of its relatively modest grade should stay very popular . |
| 26 | A total of 169 ( 93% ) had received at least two hospital outpatient consultations in connection with the condition causing their disability , of whom 25 ( 15% ) had also required inpatient admission . |
| 27 | In order to be sure that our data would be as reliable as possible a decision was made to report only on those countries from which we had received at least three questionnaires among which there was a high level of agreement . |
| 28 | Complete results of the July 29 elections were not available as of mid-August , but according to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Aug. 16 the MPRP had received at least 60 per cent of the votes and had won over 340 of the 430 seats in the People 's Great Hural . |
| 29 | Seventy-five per cent said they had received at least 3 days notice of the visit and 94% were happy with the amount of notice . |
| 30 | Paula had told her there were twelve models in the show and each of them had to wear at least ten outfits . |