Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] at least [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was taken to see the King , but had to wait for at least an hour while he struggled with a difficult mathematical question . |
| 2 | In a related development , agriculture minister Adam Tanski called on banks to suspend for at least a month legal proceedings against private farmers who were unable to pay back credit . |
| 3 | The tower , it was generally believed , was unlikely to fall for at least a century . |
| 4 | Nominations need to stand for at least a week , but MPs will not be at Westminster to vote . |
| 5 | Allow to set for at least a short while before serving garnished with lime wedges . |
| 6 | The strips were initially placed under 1.0 g resting tension and allowed to equilibrate for at least an hour before the start of experiments . |
| 7 | The elections in the Baltic republics , unlike in the rest of the Soviet Union , were held on a genuinely multiparty basis , constitutionally guaranteed Communist Party ( CP ) monopolies having been abolished in the past three months and new parties having been allowed to form for at least the past year . |
| 8 | The ban followed the Chernobyl accident , and was expected to last until at least the end of the century . |
| 9 | She would n't be fit enough to ride for at least a week , but she was able to organize the move to a new flat which Annie had found for her , situated just behind the saddler 's shop . |
| 10 | The medical , legal and local government discipline should have the facilities to enable their potentially bilingual students to study for at least an additional term in order to enhance their language and cultural knowledge to a defined level and to extend their professional expertise to accommodate the main different professional dimensions — such as Islamic matrimonial law and sickle cell anaemia . |
| 11 | Initial deliveries are expected to go to at least the other announced PowerPC allies , Groupe Bull SA , Thomson-CSF , Harris Corp and Tadpole Technology plc , with Apple taking the lion 's share . |
| 12 | She would need somewhere to stay for at least a night , and her closest friend in the town was herself an academic . |
| 13 | The travellers say they plan to stay until at least the weekend . |
| 14 | Once the fire is out , turn off the heat source and leave the pan to cool for at least an hour before attempting to move it . |
| 15 | By the year 2020 the number is expected to rise by at least the same amount to reach nearly 100 million over-60s in the 12 member states . |