Example sentences of "[det] [verb] at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This recommended at least perpetual peace between England and Scotland , and even a single monarchy . |
| 2 | ( The housing charity , Shelfter , says that this represents at least 420000 people . ) |
| 3 | This involved at least 1000 colliery and ‘ temporary ’ dwellings and was achieved without any of the controversy associated with the Category D policy in County Durham ( see Blackman , 1987 ) , largely because residents got good modern dwellings close to their original homes . |
| 4 | This shows at least 520 territorial groups recognized as administrative districts ( volosti ) , which in some cases corresponded to true consanguineous clans , but in many other cases were merely ‘ clans ’ of convenience , rather arbitrarily designated by the Russian authorities . |
| 5 | This means at least 70 per cent of people attending fertility clinics will feel they are failures — not only for having to attend the clinic , but also for not having succeeded with treatment ; they may also feel they have failed the clinic and the doctor , as well as themselves , their partners and families . |
| 6 | For the driver , this means at least 120 lb torque on call from 2550rpm , with a peak of 135 lb ft at 3500rpm . |
| 7 | If you are breastfeeding this means at least four to five feeds . |
| 8 | This gives at least some indication how multimedia databases can be constructed . |
| 9 | This suggests at least some role for the right hemisphere in certain language functions . |
| 10 | Two salient age groups can be distinguished : the 16–30 age group , which contains all ages comprising at least 1 per cent of the users ( 92 per cent of all users ) ; and the 18–22 age group , which contains the five ages which each comprised at least 5 per cent of the users ( 56 per cent of all users ) . |
| 11 | Even when answers start to emerge , it will be some time before those who depend on the industry for a livelihood — and that includes at least 100,000 Scots — will know whether or not he has sent the right signals in a climate of fierce international competition for scarce oil industry investment funds . |
| 12 | Nondeterminism within the process , and the many choices open to the environment , mean that any mixture of these containing at least one of unc is possible . |
| 13 | In the top drawer of the desk I found some more photocopies and these had at least some notes scribbled in red ink in the margins . |
| 14 | They could all ride now — after a fashion — and stay on over their modest course of jumps ( built of railway sleepers ) ; they could all swim at least three lengths and run a mile without stopping to fall in a heap every hundred yards , not very fast perhaps , but improving all the time . |
| 15 | Support to schools in terms of materials and equipment , extra tuition and advice and assessment , all seemed at least adequate whereas in-service opportunities were limited . |
| 16 | We can all expect at least one announcement along this line in the next six months , followed by another two or three by the year-end , Burton said . |
| 17 | The latter included at least six mosaics from Aldborough ; five from York ; five from Rudston , East Yorks. ; four from Winterton , Lincs. ; and four from Brantingham , Humbs . |
| 18 | The polymers he tried all took at least three days to form an adequate surface layer . |
| 19 | Of the children at the copper works it is not indicated precisely how many attended at least some form of educational establishment , though of course many did . |
| 20 | On March 7th , against Wales at Twickenham , we all witnessed at least two acts of complete thuggery when not only were English players stamped on but it was their heads which came in for rough treatment . |
| 21 | It is a common fallacy to assume that all blown trees die ; on the contrary , those retaining at least 25 per cent root contact with the soil may well continue to grow , albeit with a shorter life expectancy . |
| 22 | Under the traffic restrictions , only taxis , buses , foreign cars and those carrying at least four people were permitted to travel in the central part of the city . |
| 23 | In this report , we show that the basal level transcription of the histone H1 gene in F9 cells is mediated by an 80 bp DNA sequence situated 450 nucleotides upstream of the transcriptional start point , that does not enclose the RARE sequence , and that binds at least two specific trans-acting factors . |
| 24 | Now lawyers for Asda supermarkets have realised it can be sold at any time by the case — that means at least nine litres of wine or 20 litres of beer . |
| 25 | The 22 areas each employ at least one training officer who is mainly responsible for planning a training programme for the bureaux in the area and for training further trainers who will collaborate more closely with workers in their bureaux and help implement the plan . |
| 26 | That is enough to make at least one bomb . |
| 27 | That left at least forty-eight hours from Angela Morgan 's disappearance when , as far as the forensic evidence went , she could have been alive . |
| 28 | That makes at least 5 gallons each way , or £20 for the return journey . |
| 29 | A particularly influential way of studying them was outlined by Ninian Smart , one of the first members of the Shap Working Party which has been campaigning for this approach since the early 1970s : religions each have at least six dimensions : doctrinal , mythological , ethical , ritual , experiential and social . |
| 30 | You both took at least ninety minutes for lunch . |