Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undercutting , polishing and pitting up to about 3 m ( 10 ft ) confirms that wind has played at least an important part in their development , while their restriction to areas of erodible sandstone providing a large amount of material for sand blasting also strongly suggests the part played by the wind . |
| 2 | Naturally , the brighter the white , the more it will suit pictures with a modern style , so consider choosing at least an off-white , if not a cream , for pictures with an antique flavour . |
| 3 | Poll tax payers in Hambleton will have to find at least an extra £25 after district councillors yesterday set the rate at £210 for the area 's 60,000 payers an increase of 13pc . |
| 4 | It must have taken Summerchild at least an extra minute in each direction ; as I recall it from those evenings fifteen years ago , he walked at a much more reflective pace , as if slowed by some inner weight . |
| 5 | The terminal explosion over Tunguska is typically estimated to have occurred at roughly an atmospheric scale height H 8.4km . |
| 6 | The revitalised company that started life building its own 16-bit minicomputers , ultimately plunged into bankruptcy and returned from the dead as a library automation systems specialist , may make two more acquisitions this month , president and chief executive Stephen Sadler told the Toronto Society of Financial Analysts — and it expects to make at least an acquisition a month for the rest of the next 12 months . |
| 7 | I imagine we 've got at least an hour before any more humans come , and it 's not a lot different to a truck . ’ |
| 8 | In the past , many of those with a responsibility for encouraging good governance have shown at least an absence of discouragement to management excesses . |