Example sentences of "must [verb] [vb pp] at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have stood at least two inches over six feet , and his obvious physical strength caused an unfamiliar quivering to start up deep inside her . |
| 2 | For the next few years American audiences were shown aspects of their society that they could never have expected to have encountered at the movies and it must have struck at least some members of the public that film-going had become a more serious business . |
| 3 | It must have represented at least three weeks wages for the average man in the village . |
| 4 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |
| 5 | J. says I must have eaten at least three of the pounds myself , but that 's just his usual exaggeration . |
| 6 | They must have gone at least three miles along the Atherton Road already . |
| 7 | Where the employee works less than 16 hours , but more than eight hours , a week , her continuous employment must have begun at least five years before the qualifying date . |
| 8 | Jumped ‘ The gunman got out of a window and must have jumped at least 25 feet to the ground . |
| 9 | Thus , after two days in which a negotiated settlement to the original squabble seemed possible , an ultimatum to the Vietminh to clear out of Haiphong in two hours led to a bombardment which must have killed at least 1,000 people , many if not most of whom would be described as innocent civilians . |
| 10 | They must have drawn at least 2 games then . |
| 11 | We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject . |