Example sentences of "by at least [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | What it means as I said before , is that ten or fifteen years ago , that number of people got infected , so now ten fifteen years on , we usually multiply by at least a hundred , so we 're really talking about thousands of people living with H I V , and probably unaware of the fact that they have it . |
2 | His position was already improved by at least a 100 per cent . |
3 | Even if lead levels in the atmosphere do not bother you , I am sure you will find the fact that unleaded petrol is 15p cheaper , and that diesel fuel boosts mpg by at least a third , most interesting . |
4 | These provide weedkillers , insecticides and fungicides to control weeds , pests and diseases which otherwise would damage crops and reduce their size by at least a third . |
5 | If all long term care was to be given within the NHS the number of beds would have to be expanded by at least a third and probably nearly doubled if , as is often the case , those in residential homes require nursing care . |
6 | Yes , you can reduce the annual cost of your hot water by at least a third , if you switch to Economy 7 . |
7 | The Select Committee suggested that these costs might actually be too high and it is true that if our ‘ Safestore ’ strategy is adopted we will be able to reduce the liability by at least a further £500 million . |
8 | The contains no explicit stipulation that the muderris should also act as mufti of Manisa — or , alternatively , that the mufti of Manisa should act as muderris — but it would appear that by at least a few years before 944/1537–8 , if not earlier , such had become the practice . " |
9 | We were awakened the next morning by Sir Henry Bowyer 's rough arrival accompanied by at least a dozen likely-looking rogues . |
10 | It would thus seem that something very like the provisions of the Kanunname were in operation by at least the early sixteenth century ; and if the sources are not sufficiently detailed to confirm the operation of the provisions of the Kanunname in every detail , at the same time they do not cast doubt upon any detail . |
11 | This fashion of dimidiation was abandoned by at least the late fourteenth century and replaced by the style of compressing each set of armorial bearings onto one half of the shield — the husband 's being placed on the dexter and the wife 's on the sinister . |
12 | Consumption of the Nazca Plate along the nascent Peru-Chile Trench had begun by at least the Late Triassic — Early Jurassic and marked the conversion of the previously ‘ passive ’ continental margin ( see Chapter 4 ) of western South America to an active convergent plate boundary ( Fig. 3.13 ( A ) and ( B ) ) . |
13 | Only give these drinks with meals and dilute the juice by AT LEAST the same amount of water . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | You will need a strip of paper to equal this length by at least the desired depth of your pelmet . |
16 | By at least the eighteenth century , the Albanians were in a majority . |
17 | The iconography of a state 's coinage viewed over a period of time can reveal a certain amount of information about the aspirations of that state , since the choice of designs will normally reflect the matters considered important by at least an influential body in that state and will present these important matters in a particular way . |
18 | Minimum requirements for run-time systems are a standard Stride board and renderer hosted by at least an 80386 machine with co-processor . |