Example sentences of "it [vb past] at least [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been up there for years , it weighed at least 14 carats and sat like a throbbing lime fruit pastille on the back of my unmoving hand . |
| 2 | Political violence was rampant , and still is : it cost at least 3,000 lives in 1990 . |
| 3 | Now it seemed at least twelve feet in height , roughly humanoid in shape and wearing what looked like a plastic bucket on its head . |
| 4 | Incidentally , the golden eagle which I mentioned last week did not reappear in Yorkshire 's Nidderdale where it spent at least five days , but it was finally relocated . |
| 5 | Even in the 1780s travel was difficult and on foot or by horse — it took at least four days to get from Edinburgh to London . |
| 6 | So it took at least four men . |
| 7 | The sensitivity of the initiative is underlined by the fact that it took at least five months for Unix Labs and Santa Cruz to agree on a basic specification drawn up by UK firm IXI Ltd and edited by Unix Labs . |
| 8 | With brute strength ( it took at least ten horses to shift even one medium field gun ) , the Germans eventually moved their guns forward but the delays involved meant that many of the deadly 21Os , so essential a part of the German offensive technique , were hors de combat over long periods of the battle during its most critical phase . |
| 9 | As in the case of Sugar , the ORB 's of both of these Squadrons are incomplete regarding ED888 , but it is fairly certain that it completed at least 140 operations . |
| 10 | She looked it over , saw that it had at least two exits , and gave him a cautious yes . |