Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] at least [num] " in BNC.

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1 Osborne , a 20-year-old crane driver of Leicester , was recommended to serve at least 10 years .
2 Specifically , LIFESPAN is designed to avoid at least two fundamental problems :
3 — The public inquiry is expected to last at least two months and three pre-inquiry meetings have been held two in Northallerton and one in Marton , Middlesbrough .
4 The inquiry runs from Tuesday to Thursday ( 10am-4.30pm ) and Friday ( 10am-2pm ) each week and is expected to last at least two months .
5 The conference is expected to last at least three months — but by the end of it the Department of Transport may have a publically acceptable solution to Hereford 's traffic jams .
6 Last night , the League was expected to have at least 26 seats in the 315-seat Senate and at least 60 in the 430-seat Chamber of Deputies .
7 The levy , which would be effective until June 30 , 1992 , was designed to raise at least 20,000 million pesos in additional revenue .
8 Expected to take at least four years to achieve , these will see the creation of a wide range of specialised habitats salt marsh , sand dunes , mountain stream , moorland and wetland all with their associated tree and plant life .
9 The BNP was also expected to take at least 28 of the 30 reserved seats for women , to be elected by the Jatiya Sangsad in April .
10 They are expected to take at least 30 years to mature .
11 Although the Sardar Sarovar dam is only partly complete , the rise in water level caused by the forthcoming monsoon rains is expected to drown at least four villages .
12 Staff at executive and managerial level were expected to speak at least two foreign languages ; German and English or French ) .
13 IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year .
14 Small businesses were , however , specially protected from the effects of the squeeze , the domestic banks being instructed to reserve at least 20 per cent of their available credit for smaller commercial borrowers , with particular favour to be shown to those in eastern Indonesia .
15 X/Open in turn explained the inner working of its fast track process : a specification that 's very clean and well written takes at least six months , changes after review tack on another 10 weeks .
16 A hiatal hernia was considered to be present if during endoscopy gastric folds were seen extending at least 2 cm above the diaphragmatic hiatus during quiet respirations .
17 According to the state-owned newspaper L'Union , one soldier and one civilian died in the rebellion , and 52 people were arrested ; those arrested were thought to include at least 20 GPP supporters .
18 But it 's not just music that 's on offer at Lydiard. 50 000 litres of gas will be used to launch at least 100 hot air balloons … the climax , a Night Glow on Monday in which the balloons will be choreographed to music and fireworks .
19 Yet , if such all-male groups were to reproduce themselves as hunting groups and gain the immense adaptive advantages that situation bestowed , they would have had to institute at least one , and probably several , hunts against members of their own species — the primal fathers who , of course , monopolized all the females .
20 Write a short essay on reciprocal dumping because define what reciprocal dumping is you 've also got to give at least one example of reciprocal dumping , right , so you do n't have to give any detailed examples just erm E E C waste er food policy in these days reciprocal dumping would be subsidized after exports in order for America to sell its few exports it has to so it is best subsidised definition define what it is give application of concept erm if the concept involves measurement , say how it , how it can be measured say an effective protection trade , er say how it could , how it could be measured
21 Gas chromatography of MUP suggests that the principal component bound by MUP in vivo is 2- ( sec- butyl ) thiazoline ( Fig. 3 ) , although this may represent the major species of several present in the crystal , MUP has been shown to bind at least three different ligands in vivo and some or all of these may also be present at low occupancy .
22 Got to have at least two degrees , if not three kind of thing .
23 Since opening the new account I have had to make at least six unnecessary visits to the bank because the system was not working properly , thus wasting your time and mine .
24 Jupiter is now known to have at least sixteen satellites , though the remainder are much smaller than the Galileans .
25 " He has asked to do at least two details at night and if anyone falls sick he will ask to do a third and even a fourth .
26 During your course you will be asked to give at least one talk .
27 Doi was known to have wanted to field at least 180 JSP candidates but was opposed by many local party organizations on the grounds that having more than one JSP candidate in each of the country 's 130 multi-member constituencies might split the socialist vote and endanger the position of JSP incumbents .
28 Throughout the study subjects were asked to complete at least one seven point home blood glucose monitoring profile a week and to collect a series of capillary blood samples simultaneously with the home monitoring profile at least once a fortnight .
29 When auditioning for most schools you will be asked to present at least two contrasting speeches and possibly give some idea of your attitude to improvisation and , perhaps , to singing .
30 The frustrated Mersey manager has pledged to drop at least four of the side that lost at Sheffield United on Saturday for tonight 's vital Coca Cola Cup clash with Chelsea .
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