Example sentences of "at least [adj] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 it 's not gon na give you any pleasure to say , oh well at least all the girls are alright .
2 I knew that the eyes of at least half the accountants and data-processors at the neighbouring tables were on her as well as my own .
3 I have no means of knowing where at least half the accounts are .
4 Bill will have spontaneously suggested at least half the criteria himself .
5 They provide that at least half the proceeds of surplus asset sales must go to reduce consumer bills and would affect the so-called ‘ K-factor ’ on which price rises are calculated .
6 Mr Sherwood has offered to raise $1.1billion from the sell-offs , and would use at least half the proceeds to buy back stock from shareholders at $70 a share .
7 And at least half the cases in the black community may go unreported , warns Padayachee .
8 He said Government restrictions meant that at least half the councils in Scotland would not be able to increase their spending by more than 2.25 per cent .
9 The debate came the day after Councillor Charles Gray , the president of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , gave warning that jobs and services were under threat and that at least half the councils in Scotland would not be able to increase their spending by more than 2.25 per cent .
10 According to the Siar Research International Corporation , the source of many of these facts , at least half the men in Kazakhstan shave every day .
11 It had shocked him to discover , while a student , that at least half the men in his year had had no love or emotional experience at all .
12 Everyone still standing , and that was at least half the passengers , did a little backwards dance and righted themselves by the simple expedient of taking hold of the person or object closest to them .
13 According to the report , 42 of the 56 mills investigated ( out of a total of 100 in Britain ) had exceeded their discharge limits at least once in the two years to March 1992 , and the eight worst offenders had done so on at least half the occasions when effluent was tested .
14 Hay was made on 91% of the farms in the survey , surprising Perhaps when one considered that at least half the units are in a high rainfall area .
15 At least half the children interviewed claimed to know people on drugs .
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