Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | Virtually all the guards carried at least a side-arm and , usually , a semi-automatic rifle . |
2 | We are anxious that all industrial customers should have access to competitively priced electricity and I am pleased to say that an independent survey showed that in the first year after privatisation three quarters of those customers experienced at least a 10 per cent . |
3 | All the other girls had at least a best dress , and some of them were burningly anxious to display clothes bought by extravagant parents especially for the occasion . |
4 | These reports had at least a grounding in real events , or my memory of them . |
5 | An attempt was made , at least by de Gaulle , to link riots in Syria in May 1945 with what happened in Algeria on VE Day ; but the scale of the French reaction in Algeria to the murder of over a hundred European settlers and associated atrocities left at least a thousand and perhaps as many as six thousand Algerian dead . |