Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | I must have at least a dozen dresses made before I can shew my face in town . |
2 | I could point to quite a few leaders about whom I am not enthusiastic but I will refrain from naming them , and concentrate on those I like . |
3 | ‘ I 'd say at least a dozen . ’ |
4 | Yeah more than that I 'd say at least a decade . |
5 | No it did n't come anywhere near the performance I would expect from even a 25MHz 486 but it was nevertheless fast . |
6 | He said fierce fighting was taking place near Bahdu and insisted I would need at least a hundred soldiers if I went there . |
7 | I will wear at least a strap now . |
8 | " Oh , I think I can count on about a hundred , " said the bear . |
9 | I believe that you will be well able to represent the views of the members of this mailing list so there is not much I can add except perhaps a comment , that with all the transfers at the club in the recent past , that the team is perhaps unsettled and that gaining the championship this season seems difficult . |
10 | There are plenty of theories , and plenty of assumptions , many of which may have at least a part of the truth . |
11 | This interpretation was supported by the fact that a committee which might consist of only a few members could not , however honest and conscientious , assess impartially the value of its work or that of its individual members . |
12 | He switched on the radio and learned that temperatures of minus 6 were expected tonight ; the forecaster believed they were due for a ‘ cold snap ’ which could last at least a week . |
13 | The term " Unusual Attitudes " is taken to mean that the aircraft has adopted an attitude which could result in either a stall , spin or spiral dive . |
14 | Issues to be considered include the use of water , water disposal and atmospheric emissions — in fact anything which could impinge on how a field may be developed . ’ |
15 | But now only the grim reality of a rebuilding task , which could take at least a generation , occupies the minds of those struggling to put their newly independent countries on their feet . |
16 | There was an immediate countermove , however , by a group of deputies representing Estonia 's large Russian minority , who announced the establishment of a committee " for the defence of Soviet power " which would work for either a restructured Soviet federation or else for the creation of a new " state territorial formation " for Estonia 's Russians ( i.e. separating from Estonia those areas of the republic with a majority Russian population ) . |
17 | Wycliffe decided to call off the search which would release at least a dozen men to return to normal duties . |
18 | Answer guide : The answer should point out that a cost can be incurred which will result in both an asset , i.e. something that has a future benefit , or an expense , i.e. something where the benefit has been used up . |
19 | This is something that you may feel a need to be sure of , and it is quite possible to devise tests which will give at least a good indication of the likely impact of the ad in these terms . |
20 | You must you must get at least a ball a pioneer ball near your next two |
21 | You should save at least a third on the cost of an equivalent conventionally built house . |
22 | The files tend to be very large , so you 'll need at least an 80Mb hard drive . |
23 | Sighing , she looked around the elegant hallway , drastic cuts would have to be made but she could manage with just a cook and a maid , the others would have to be paid off . |
24 | This time she could drink with scarcely a tremor . |
25 | Non-swimmers wore coloured bathing hats ; those who could swim at least a length wore white hats , those who had passed the bronze medal wore black caps , and a very few wore silver for the silver medal . |
26 | It 's argued that you 'd need at least a force of eighty thousand troops , that 's in Bosnia . |
27 | So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping . |
28 | ‘ But does he look the sort of person who 'd sign with just an initial ? ’ |
29 | To make the best use of Windows you will need at least a 386SX based computer with as much memory as you can afford . |
30 | To use VidiPC you will need at least a 286 AT computer with 640Kb of RAM and a hard disk with enough room to store several images . |