Example sentences of "be [verb] at least [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is important that at least three coats are applied and that the top and bottom edges are given at least one coat to prevent moisture being absorbed .
2 Campesinos flee into the controlled areas , find they are welcomed , incorporated into different areas of production and that both health and education needs are given at least minimal attention .
3 It is in the member 's interest that these materials are received at least 6 weeks before the programme begins .
4 He added : ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’
5 ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’
6 Its author , Roger Sedjo , argues that new temperate forests are absorbing at least 700 million tonnes a year , compared to the 1,000 million tonnes released annually as a result of tropical forest loss .
7 Simon Hayday , who 's in his early twenties , had been stabbed at least six times .
8 Peter Wickins had been stabbed at least four times in the chest .
9 For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ .
10 Well they 're expecting at least two cars .
11 Is it then to be concluded that the Cromer area has been downwarped at least 70 m since the Cromerian interglacial , or , if such an amount of downwarping seems to be excessive , that the sea level of the Cromerian interglacial was not as high as 70 m above the present ?
12 While the maximum that can be saved by an individual aged over 16 is £20 a month , more than one SAYE account can be held by the saver — provided they are held with the same institution and are opened at least one month apart .
13 Ursula works in a hospital where operations to correct hare lips are performed at least three times a week .
14 In Britain these surfaces are inspected at least quarterly for projections , cracks and rocking slabs , and the highway authority has a clear duty to maintain these facilities to provide unobstructed and free passage .
15 His car had been damaged at least six times and he 'd moved his double glazing factory because of three attempted robberies .
16 He estimated that the car must have been doing at least 18 miles per hour on the curve where it overturned .
17 North 's screen persona , which appeared suddenly to seize the country by the throat when he testified on television in July 1987 , had therefore been set at least seven months before .
18 Police are questioning at least three people after discovering a huge cache of semtex in a tea chest in East London .
19 We undertake to refund the deposit in full if you cancel because of redundancy , provided we are notified at least 8 weeks before departure and on receipt of confirmation from the employer concerned ( provided you have been in your current employment for the last 2 years ) .
20 The General Household Survey 's special analysis of carers in 1985 ( Green , 1988 ) suggested that : 1.7 million adults are caring for someone living with them ; 1.4 million are spending at least twenty hours per week doing so ; and 3.4 million are bearing the main responsibility for the care of someone .
21 It was an important administration and social centre and had been populated at least two thousand years BC .
22 And I 'm nursing at least one broken rib .
23 This might suggest that octreotide injections should be given at least 45 minutes after a meal .
24 He shows how the same events can be given at least three explanations , each related to different facts , or to the same facts differently interpreted .
25 New jeeps had to be modified for desert travel , a vast amount of stores had to be sorted out and the new recruits had to be given at least some elementary training .
26 In particular , every pupil should be given at least some experience of the plays or poetry of Shakespeare .
27 Fibre helps you slim ; and we should be eating at least 30 grams a day of it .
28 However , whilst asserting that the reporting accountant should already as part of his or her duties be auditing at least two reconciliations in detail they also argued that the process was ‘ highly unlikely to reveal a great deal that the reporting accountant would not otherwise pick up during the year-end work ’ .
29 Some of chef/owner Melvin Rhodes ' recipes are included in the Les Routiers Cook Book and he will be cooking at least one of these for the lunch .
30 A new act 's problem is that if they approach an established manager , he or she will already be representing at least one major act .
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