Example sentences of "[to-vb] at least [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , I think there are good reasons to encourage at least one food supermarket in the city centre . |
| 2 | In January 1991 the Supreme Court ruled that the adjournment was in breach of the Constitution ( which contained an obligation for the legislature to meet at least three times a year ) , causing Namaliu to announce that the legislature would reconvene in May . |
| 3 | Anyone dropping into the church any time , any day , during the sorting period would have been sure to find at least 10 people working ( ‘ sustained solely by lemon barley water ’ ) . |
| 4 | But another federal appeals court struck down an Ohio law requiring a doctor to inform at least one parent before performing an abortion on a teenager , on grounds that it infringed Roe v Wade . |
| 5 | With the standard deviations being relatively high ( in the order of 8.0 to 12.0 ) , clearly a much larger data sample is needed ( to provide at least 100 data points , i.e. 25-30 sentences ) . |
| 6 | After two months in kennels they move on to the dog supply unit for 11 months , during which time they will be required to train at least six dogs up to the blindfold standard , and pass the guide dog trainer examination . |
| 7 | For that to begin to come about , a challenger would need to attract at least 70 MPs to vote for him or abstain . |
| 8 | Those with no record of social security contributions , in other words new entrants to the labour market , have to work at least 26 weeks if they are to be eligible for Unemployment Benefit when they lose their jobs . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | Full-time students are required to pass at least 7 modules in the first year of Stage II , their second year , to satisfy the requirements of a full-time year of study . |
| 11 | To maintain satisfactory progress , a part-time student has to pass at least one course each year . |
| 12 | er , that in future , said conference would be able to pass at least one motion to the T U C Congress elect delegates to the same . |
| 13 | Over the next 12 months he expects the three to sell at least 10 systems solutions n the UK . |
| 14 | Sega boss Nick Alexander , who hopes to sell at least 275,000 Game Gears this year in the UK , says : ‘ I think that hand-helds are really fashion items . |
| 15 | Start drinking plenty of bland liquids such as water , milk , weak tea or orange squash ( not orange juice or carbonated drinks ) , and aim to drink at least eight pints a day . |
| 16 | His pulse and blood pressure were recorded regularly and he was encouraged to drink at least 2 litres of fluid a day . |
| 17 | People are likely to create at least one piece of paper when making an agreement of sufficient complexity to incorporate expert determination . |
| 18 | They had to serve at least two years as trainees in one of the main deaf centres before sitting for examinations and , if successful , being awarded a diploma . |
| 19 | Mrs Buttafuoco , 39 , begged the court to order her attacker to serve at least 7½ years . |
| 20 | Osborne , a 20-year-old crane driver of Leicester , was recommended to serve at least 10 years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Taking account again of the public concern about violent crime , in future I intend to exercise my discretion so that murderers of police or prison officers , terrorist murderers , sexual or sadistic murderers of children and murderers by firearm in the course of robbery can normally expect to serve at least 20 years in custody ; and there will be cases where the gravity of the offence requires a still longer period . |
| 23 | Power companies are under an obligation to install at least 100 megawatts of wind power capacity by the end of the year under contract to the government . |
| 24 | It is suggested that the UK 's existing LFA is assessed in order to define at least 3 zones of natural handicap within it , viz : — |
| 25 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |
| 26 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |
| 27 | What the model does is to suggest at least two things that need to be examined critically . |
| 28 | Chapters can be quite long , and that means I need enough of a working memory in the computer gubbins itself to handle at least 6,000 words at a time . |
| 29 | The initial requirement is for nine user terminals , although it is essential that it be possible to expand the system to handle at least twenty terminals should they be needed later . |
| 30 | The radial Spanish trunk network had to contend with one of the most difficult geographies in Europe , which means that most routes from Madrid to the coast have to cross at least one mountain range , while in Britain the major centres are connected across relatively easy terrain . |