Example sentences of "least a [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should not happen for at least a million years … but there is an outside chance that it could happen tomorrow . ) |
| 2 | ‘ Lee , nobody who has n't known you for at least a hundred years is going to appreciate oblique and esoteric … ’ |
| 3 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 4 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 5 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 6 | Do n't you realise it 's taken at least a hundred years for that to grow ? |
| 7 | Mankind had , after all , turned from hunting to farming as a way of life at least a thousand years before this date , by which time both goats and sheep were already domesticated . |
| 8 | These atoms , as we have seen , are spewed out from dying stars ; but it would take at least a billion years for a star to use up all its helium energy and explode , hence life could not exist in a universe consisting of the shortest-living stars , since the necessary elements such as carbon would not exist . |
| 9 | Both pictured a glamorous brunette , at least a dozen years older than herself . |