Example sentences of "[num] [prep] least [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If the public were schooled to discriminate between the germane and the irrelevant , the authentic and the phoney , and the reality and the appearance , nine-tenths at least of the advertising industry would be out of work .
2 They included gross and shifting uncertainties about money , great division of counsel in the General Assembly of the Company , fundamental differences of opinion between two at least of the engineers called on to survey the route , James Barnes and Thomas Telford , and , above all , the engineering of a very difficult route .
3 Two at least of the features — consciousness and conspiracy — are difficult to operationalise and rarely demonstrated satisfactorily by empirical means ; direct empirical evidence for common objectives and awareness of group consciousness is not easy to envisage , because of the nature of the referents , and it is not surprising therefore that elite theorists such as Wright Mills have tended to use their sociological imagination to provide a plausible construct of indirect evidential demonstration .
4 Such reaction gave birth to two at least of the names applied to architectural styles .
5 The professor shall lecture , or hold classes , in two at least of the three university terms and shall give at least thirty-six lectures or classes in all and not less than twelve in each of two terms , of which not less than sixteen must be lectures .
6 The professor shall lecture , or hold classes , in two at least of the three university terms and shall give at least twenty-eight lectures or classes in all and not less than twelve in each of two terms .
7 Two fifty for a telly , a hundred for a , a , a hundred at least for a microwave .
8 These emissaries often bore gifts as well as eloquent words : since at least the early thirteenth century royal pensions were granted to promising or influential cardinalsto eighteen at least of the seventy-two who there were between 1305 and 1334 , to six alone in 1309 when the royal mission secured papal backing for Gaveston 's recall .
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