Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a survey of 1,800 working women in France might show that 38% read at least one magazine weekly , and a similar survey in West Germany of 940 working women showed that 47% of them read at least one magazine weekly . |
| 2 | During the warmer months I averaged at least 15 common carp in a five hour session but this winter two sessions were biteless . |
| 3 | It was obvious that to base it on a villa one would need to have full access to the whole site and many more seasons — I imagined at least 15 . |
| 4 | I counted at least 15 snippets of tunes in the half-hour slot and none resembled a conventional song , just a patchwork quilt of ideas . |
| 5 | I took at least two hours before reluctantly passing it over . |
| 6 | On each occasion I took at least half an hour to get ready , chose my clothes carefully , brushed my teeth , put my earrings in , wore bright-red lipstick . |
| 7 | I reckoned that I had at least one brigade of white cells on the start line with other brigades available as required . |
| 8 | I remember feeling really happy when I was told I had at least six or seven years to live . |
| 9 | ‘ I drank at least four litres during the canoeing , ’ Bramwell said . |
| 10 | I wanted at least one of them alive . |
| 11 | In the latest food poisoning epidemic , which made at least 30 people ill in a private West Country hospital two weeks ago , sandwiches are the prime suspects . |
| 12 | At a time when new stations elsewhere meant bus shelters , fine new stations which retained at least some of the spirit of the old were provided at Taita , Palmerston North , and Rotorua , among others . |
| 13 | Louth has its spire — the tallest and perhaps most beautiful parish church spire in England its King Edward school which educated at least three famous Lincolnshire sons : Alfred Lord Tennyson , Captain John Smith and Sir John Franklin . |
| 14 | So we stayed five days in this backpackers ' , had a look round Auckland , visited MOTAT the Museum of Transport and Technology , opened a bank account , sold the Krugerrands which had been left to us by my Mum and which financed at least half the trip , and recovered from jetlag by sleeping only at night . |
| 15 | Le Monde of Feb. 6 reported that the quake had caused floods which killed at least 200 people in the south-west of the country . |
| 16 | Bosnian leaders , however , accused the FRY of attempting to deny responsibility for Serb attacks , such as the June 23 shelling which killed at least 14 people in Sarajevo city centre , which was crowded with people after an apparent lull in the fighting . |
| 17 | They said the part was not on the Boeing checklist , even though it has been widely blamed for the crash , which killed at least 43 people . |
| 18 | After the business , and before refreshments , the Dolmetsch Ensemble provided members with a short concert , which included at least one item that will be heard at this year 's festival . |
| 19 | One of his assistants had worked slowly and laboriously through the records and come up with half-a-dozen prints which looked at least similar to the ones taken from Paula Wilson . |
| 20 | Thus from the start he was temperamentally disposed to look not only at strategies which promised to save money but also at those which offered at least some hope ( if not of winning the Cold War ) of making gains at the expense of the USSR . |
| 21 | In 1988 , over 120 million people were breathing air which exceeded at least one of the health-based air quality standards , that is , nearly half the population of the country . |
| 22 | Table 3.1 shows the intake of graduates in 25 subjects or subject combinations into types of work which absorbed at least 1 per cent of the total for that subject in one year ( permanent UK employment , 1986/87 ) . |
| 23 | The island of Kauai bore the brunt of the storm , experiencing wind gusts of up to 250 kph and six-metre waves which left at least 8,000 of the island 's 51,000 inhabitants homeless . |
| 24 | Cross sectional study of 101 adults of known birth weight from 47 families which had at least one member with non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 25 | The Press Trust of India news agency said as many as 12 people were feared killed in an explosion which destroyed at least five cars and blew out windows of surrounding buildings , including a five-star hotel popular with tourists . |
| 26 | Butler had shown a keen personal interest in the preparation of the White Paper which underwent at least four drafts before it reached the finished version . |
| 27 | The Board itself involved at least three meetings a year , plus briefings with the secretary , membership of ad hoc meetings and working parties , and the preparation and conduct of visits ( as Chairman he initially went on all visits ) . |
| 28 | But nor had she been allowed to use the telephone or leave the office , except for one visit to the toilet down the corridor accompanied by a sour-faced secretary who weighed at least twelve stone and insisted she leave the door ajar . |
| 29 | She told at least one of her oldest friends : ‘ That 's it . |
| 30 | It proves you spent at least three weekends together as man and wife in the Cotswolds . |