Example sentences of "of at least the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Outside Parliament , an all-party Children 's Minimum Campaign Committee had been formed in 1934 ‘ to ensure that no child shall by reason of the poverty of its parents be deprived of at least the minimum food and other requirements for full health ’ .
2 Mr Woodley said the ballot had already achieved its objection of bringing pressure on the receivers and the Government to sanction immediate payments of at least the minimum state redundancy payoff to the 1,600 workers who have already lost their jobs .
3 It was performance that drew applause from a press corps relieved to be approaching the end of at least the first election campaign this year , and brought smiles to previously glum ministerial faces .
4 The poor or null stabilizing effect of GpU indicated that , as it had been shown for the E.coli rrnB P 1 promoter ( 8 ) , the appearance of a complex stable to heparin challenge requires the formation of at least the first phosphodiester bond .
5 Full realisation of the meaning of the partial divergence in styles of appeal between parliament and country requires recognition of at least the limited equation of ‘ enthusiasm ’ with popular opinion .
6 But we need to have a degree of common ownership of at least the broad parameters of what the world may look like , and we then seek the whole time to simplify down and down and down .
7 The best way to start on this dis section of this discussion may be to erm express the observation that the county council and at least one of the local authorities which is Harrogate , erm are already engaged in have been engaged in for some time a very positive erm activity to try and attract to the county inward investment predicament that the economic development unit of the county council , the economic development of at of at least the one local authority that I have named and erm prospective developers such I 'm representing today , share common predicament , is that the existing structure plan constructs some obstructions , erects some obstructions to the attraction of inward investment into the county .
8 Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) .
9 A key to the realization of his assets in Spain was a perilous shipment to Peru ; the success of at least the outward journey meant financial relief , but it was not until the war with Spain ended in 1808 that Gibbs 's difficulties really began to abate .
10 In Freud 's terms , this becomes a joke when both teller and listener , writer and reader , share an appreciation of at least the potential value of that sexuality .
11 But there was still a estimated overspend of at least the same amount this year , on top of a deficit of £38 million last year , said BBC spokesman Will Wyatt .
12 Secondly , and a possible explanation for the first phenomenon , only those companies having on their own staff a group or individual of at least the same calibre and ability as the outside group are likely to achieve success in this type of collaboration .
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