Example sentences of "[vb pp] at least a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everything was in ruins : rising through the rubble were banks of communications and control consoles , housed in cabinets with flowing , plastic lines that must have been designed at least a century previously . |
| 2 | He must have come at least a mile across the fields and climbed over a stock-proof fence . ’ |
| 3 | To offer such intercession is considered at least a presumption and at worst occultist , using the magic of candles . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Under CA 1985 , s131(1) merger relief ( see para 23.1.5 below ) will be available " … where the issuing company has secured at least a 90 per cent equity holding in another company in pursuance of an arrangement providing for the allotment of equity shares in the issuing company on terms that the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided ( a ) by the issue or transfer to the issuing company of equity shares in the other company … |
| 5 | Finally , for all the majesty of his presidential rule , de Gaulle himself had undergone at least a partial " desanctification " in the years after 1962 . |
| 6 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 7 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 8 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire she sometimes uses the name Cindy and sometimes Linda . |
| 9 | As we 've just heard in the headlines Nottinghamshire police have taken the unusual step of releasing a recording of a girl they believe has made at least a dozen calls claiming she 's given birth . |
| 10 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire since reporting the birth at the weekend . |
| 11 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire since reporting the birth at the weekend . |
| 12 | Three out of four children are aware of cigarettes before they reach the age of 5 whether the parents smoke or not ; at 10 years old as many as 40% of boys and 28% of girls have had at least a few puffs of a cigarette [ 1 ] and about one third of those who become regular smokers have started before age 9 [ 2 ] . |
| 13 | If they had dominated I expect they would have had at least a few more ( in 20 mins ) . |
| 14 | Shildon-born Mr Jackson said : ‘ To be a good instructor you must have had at least a season 's skiing on snow and if you want to get basic qualifications you would be charged around £3,000 . ’ |
| 15 | He 's a good motivator , has endeared himself to the players and if they 're on your side as a manager you 've got at least a fighting chance . |
| 16 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 17 | Any baby soother should be played at least a couple of feet away from her head . |
| 18 | This brief survey has provided at least a taste of current applications of mathematics and computers in the service of museums and archaeology . |
| 19 | In the examination itself , divide up the time on the basis of how the marks are likely to be distributed ; if you run out of time for your first answer , quickly sketch a conclusion and move on to the next question , so that you have provided at least a general indication of work in all the questions . |
| 20 | Although she was two or three inches shorter than Charlie , she must have weighed at least a stone more than he did ; a genuine heavyweight . |
| 21 | In the face of this varied sense of internal malaise , the return of the Thatcher government , with its young-Turk generation of monetarists and entrepreneurs , marked at least a change of gear , even if the privatization of publicly-owned enterprises was a very minor feature of the Conservative manifesto in 1979 . |
| 22 | Research institutes seem to have found at least a temporary solution to their problems . |
| 23 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 24 | We only had two days on Fregate and I could easily have spent at least a week . |
| 25 | All have spent at least a year abroad in France or Germany , usually as assistants . |
| 26 | And it can be done on the morning after the end of the previous month , whereas manually our gentleman on the tall stool might have spent at least a week preparing it , and getting them out , and that 's a week that you have n't got your money in . |
| 27 | Size of establishment was once again significant ( see Table 21 ) indicating that all but two ( 13% ) of the large libraries allocated at least a quarter of a specified staff member 's time to training . |
| 28 | However , while you have been reading the book , you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered energy , in the form of food , into disordered energy , in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat . |
| 29 | Where revolutionary committees existed much of their impetus reflected the organizing ability of the party which , by capitalizing on the natural and man-made disasters of flood and terrible famine which may have left at least a million dead , and on Vietminh seizure and distribution of rice from guarded granaries , was able to discredit existing authority , both French and Japanese . |
| 30 | Do n't you realise it 's taken at least a hundred years for that to grow ? |