Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's feared that the death toll in the Cairo earthquake has risen to at least a thousand . |
| 2 | For instance , if an economy grows at 5 per cent per year following a two-year disbursement of a structural adjustment loan , if the international price for the country 's commodity exports has risen by at least 5 per cent in the same period of time , can the loan be regarded as justified ? |
| 3 | Whether or not there is a bust this year , in the long term China 's prospects are excellent , which could prove the best economic news the world has had for at least a century , and the best news China 's people have ever had . |
| 4 | There is now a glimmer of hope … this is the first reasonable amount of water a pond in Blewberry has had for at least two years . |
| 5 | To that same end , the female , it follows , is programmed to stay at home with the tiny disco-dancers , wondering where the hell the father has got to at three in the morning . |
| 6 | A marked contrast in behaviour would be expected during continental collision between the very thick crust of the Andes , where relatively rapid subduction has occurred throughout at least the Cenozoic , and the Alpine region where the closure of the ocean separating North Africa and southern Europe has been more gradual . |
| 7 | Set against this is the felt reality ; the constraining influences of the number of individuals a person has to interact with at any one moment and the problem of time . |
| 8 | began his career with in June 1950 as a maintenance electrician and over the years he has worked for at Wallingford , at Newark and from 1987 for at Gainsborough . |
| 9 | This has happened in at least two cities , Halle and Karl-Marx-Stadt , where young party leaders have replaced their ‘ old guard ’ predecessors . |
| 10 | This is something everybody has to think about at some time and , if you have any special wishes , it is better to let others know . |
| 11 | The formula for both these jocular comments is similar : in the midst of a conversation which has continued for at least two turns in London English , a speaker introduces a turn which ends in Creole ( typically such turns are at most one sentence long , and wholly in Creole ) . |
| 12 | There is no mention of the military exclusion zone which has existed for at least two years , for anything up to seven days a week , around the highest Eildon . |
| 13 | ‘ The bank account in question has existed for at least 40 years . |
| 14 | This work will not be done in a vacuum , but for a problem that has existed for at least a lifetime a few more months of thought might lead to better outcomes , and ones that will be more readily accepted . |
| 15 | Line 90 stops the time being printed unless it has changed by at least one second . |
| 16 | This strange kind of polygyny has accounted for at least nine different hypotheses attempting to explain the birds ' bizarre mating system . |
| 17 | So deviation is a matter of degree , and at some indefinite point it becomes significant not that a writer has chosen x rather than y or z , but that he has chosen x at all . |
| 18 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 19 | and then other , like this morning I woke up about quarter to seven , well I 'd been awake a while but I thought I 'd came to at quarter to seven I went down and make some tea and having breakfast |
| 20 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 21 | I think it was his grandfather 's name that he 'd er , he 'd acquired at at that at that time . |
| 22 | She had always had to share with at least two other people until the day she came to Lisbeg . |
| 23 | This option was never seriously considered , since the fees , already at £732 a year , would have had to rise by at least £100 simply to cover the increased running costs . |
| 24 | MOST ordinary investors in water shares will have to wait for at least another week — and probably until after Christmas — before they can sell . |
| 25 | But most ordinary investors will have to wait for at least another week — and probably until after Christmas — before they can sell . |
| 26 | Hereford and worcester will have to wait for at least five years to see if the local government review will split it back into seperate counties , but Gloucestershire may benefit before then , as avon looks like being abolished in two years time . |
| 27 | Had it been accepted , the District would have been confined to only three centres in Norfolk — Norwich , Great Yarmouth and King 's Lynn and would have withdrawn from at least ten other centres at which WEA branches had existed , some from the early twenties . |
| 28 | ‘ In all honesty we should have won by at least 15 points , ’ Brian Nicholas , the Bridgend coach , said . |
| 29 | They still might have won by at least two goals , but it was never to be . |
| 30 | And any hope Laura might have had of at last having that ‘ long talk ’ which Ross had so faithfully promised her had been dashed on opening the front door of the apartment . |