Example sentences of "[conj] at [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst of the unrest occurred in Uttar Pradesh , Bihar , West Bengal and Punjab where at least 100 people died in election-related violence . |
| 2 | With military-style precision , one gunman stayed to guard the man 's family , while the other took him to the Banque de France where at least four others were waiting . |
| 3 | The Army and police suppressed unrest in the refugee camps , where at least four Palestinians were killed . |
| 4 | The concept of political freedom , which is now so frequently bandied around by the coiners of political slogans , was , so far as we know , first developed in Athens in the fourth century BC where at least two-thirds of the population had the status of chattel slaves . |
| 5 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 6 | There are some indications that the population of Crete was rising significantly around 1550–1500 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) , with new settlements appearing in previously unpopulated areas such as the Zou valley to the south of Sitia and the south coast between Arvi and Myrtos , where at least five new settlements were founded in Late Minoan I. Meanwhile , the old established centres had expanded greatly . |
| 7 | And at 6.15 Miss Danziger entered the drawing-room , where at least eighteen of the guests were gathered drinking tea and eating from a selection of Danish pastries and pies , and talking with unusual excitement . |
| 8 | This will apply where at least two of the firms earn £170million or more of that turnover in the EC but do not earn more than two-thirds of their total turnover in a single EC country . |
| 9 | Mergers with a Community dimension are defined as those where the parties have an aggregate turnover in excess of ECU 5 bn , and where at least two of those parties have a Community turnover greater than ECU 250 m . |
| 10 | In the first round Havel received 79 votes in the 150-member Chamber of the People ( 11 votes short of the 90 required ) and in the 150-member Chamber of Nations ( where at least 45 votes were required from each of the Czech and Slovak groups in the Chamber , which voted separately ) he won 47 votes in the Czech and 22 in the Slovak part . |
| 11 | In the first round Havel received 79 votes in the 150-member Chamber of the People ( 11 votes short of the 90 required ) and in the 150-member Chamber of Nations ( where at least 45 votes were required from each of the Czech and Slovak groups in the Chamber , which voted separately ) he won 47 votes in the Czech and 22 in the Slovak part . |
| 12 | Police were reported on Dec. 15 to have adopted a shoot-to-kill policy following pre-election violence in Rift Valley Province , where at least 16 people were said to have died . |
| 13 | All three Welsh areas had a high number of family units where at least one member had attended formal training , whilst in Orkney and Wester Ross there was one and none respectively . |
| 14 | The ideal is to find a spot where at least one palm tree leans over the beach at a steep angle ( more about this in a later article ) . |
| 15 | They were all still at Chapman street in April 1818 , when Benjamin junior was baptised at St George 's , after which Elizabeth upped and left for Shoreditch and the parish of St Leonard 's , where at least one of her brothers was then living . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it is a substitution that can be made in a number of contexts where at least one of c and d is used for internal communication . |
| 17 | The following are examples from schools where at least one microcomputer is now permanently based in the school library . |
| 18 | Where at least six forms of entry ( i.e. 180 pupils a year ) could be secured , and where the right buildings were available , this solution was the ‘ simplest and best ’ . |
| 19 | The latest move from the forces of oppression is to restrict mountain bikes to surface roads only in the New Forest ( where at least some of the riders will doubtless be subject to severe injury and death from motor vehicles ) . |
| 20 | Such a site is Springhead between Rochester and London , where at least seven religious structures existed within a common temenos . |
| 21 | The worst incidents of fighting were reported from the provinces of Siirt and Hakkari , where at least 30 Kurdish guerrillas and nine soldiers , including a garrison commander , were killed in a week of intense fighting at the end of July . |
| 22 | Local authorities were to decide how the legislation might be applied in communities where at least 15 per cent of the inhabitants spoke one of the " minority languages " . |
| 23 | It can be simply introduced , either by supplementary licensing , with a daily charge to drive in certain areas or by applying more sophisticated under-street and on-vehicle technology that would allow ‘ fine-tuning ’ of the charge according to the need to reduce traffic in particular areas prone to jams or at particularly congested times of day . |
| 24 | The recognition that the assumption of the effectiveness of law may turn out to be false in all or at least specific areas does not mean that all legal activity in relation to international law is worthless . |
| 25 | Or at least all of my family . ’ |
| 26 | A widespread view amongst local law societies was that specific approval of accounting systems and satisfactory evidence of compliance with the rules should be required from all firms , or at least all new firms . |
| 27 | However , some sole practitioners indicated that they might accept the principle of prior approval if it were extended to all firms or at least all new firms in the process of setting up . |
| 28 | Cicciolina seems to capture — articulate , as Koons would say — the essence of sexual desire , or at least that intense moment before the body abandons itself to passion . |
| 29 | Or at least that is the ambition of the industrial development commission of a small Pennsylvania steel town . |
| 30 | Or at least that is why reliance on a voluntary obligation is justified reliance , which the person having the obligation has to respect . |