Example sentences of "had [prep] least " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember feeling really happy when I was told I had at least six or seven years to live . |
| 2 | A deliciously dotty old lady afternoon : the three other researchers there had at least two hundred and fifty years of living between them . |
| 3 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 4 | In their villages of origin the women had been regarded as contributing less to the economic position of the family than the men , but they had at least been recognised as crucial to the economic life of the community . |
| 5 | If they never gave their children another thing , they had at least endowed them with names usually reserved to the upper classes . |
| 6 | Mr Forte said the present trading difficulties had at least one benefit — in drawing the Government 's attention to the industry . |
| 7 | The weary visitor would sigh with relief that the production had at least been cut to two hours , and head for the nearest library where she might enjoy reading about the buried feminine aspects of the play . |
| 8 | If the people of Antigua had not seen the victory they wanted , they had at least enjoyed some good fighting cricket . |
| 9 | She was only twenty-two , so had at least fifty years of boring other people before her . |
| 10 | At long last , it was all over , and Jane was glad to hear that people , and especially children , had at least enjoyed themselves . |
| 11 | His predecessor , Sir William Heseltine , had at least been fresh blood . |
| 12 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 13 | For various reasons they were wrong ; but illusion of continuity was easily available because they had at least some of their kinsmen at close quarters , met them and socialized with them each day . |
| 14 | Immediate adult royal relatives had been embarrassingly scarce ; but there was usually a queen mother , who had at least personal legal rights as tutrix of her son . |
| 15 | Feeling pleased that I had at least negotiated the day 's essentials , and the afternoon being well advanced , I thought it would be good to have a more leisurely look round Wenceslas Square and find somewhere to eat . |
| 16 | The famously awful Labour manifesto of 1983 had at least a certain integrity . |
| 17 | Each of the four full-time farmers had at least one personal specialised enterprise ; for example , one combined farming with tourism , with holidaymakers buying the homemade dairy products . |
| 18 | In a similar 1984 incident , phenol polluted 2 million peoples ' water on Merseyside , and although the public were told it was safe , a subsequent study found 40 per cent of consumers had at least one symptom of poisoning . |
| 19 | The first of several , annual Parliamentary ladies ' golf matches , between lady relations of Members of the Houses of Lords and Commons , were reported on as Henley had at least two ladies who were eligible to play — Mrs. Kate Fleming , wife of the Club President and Henley 's M.P. , Mr. Valentine Fleming , and Mrs. Cecil Norton . |
| 20 | Eventually we began to feel that the Inspector had at least some leanings towards our point of view . |
| 21 | Clearly , then , Professor Usher remains convinced that the baby had at least an 80% chance of survival , and that Leonard Arthur did prescribe the drug with the intention of causing the child 's death , especially in view of Dr Arthur 's comments on his philosophical attitude to this type of situation . |
| 22 | It is unlikely that either side in this arrangement had much hope that it would last , but it had at least enabled the government of Louis-Philippe to avoid an embarrassing public debate , which a trial might well have become . |
| 23 | Nicholson failed to make a name for himself once again , though because of some inspired controversy he had at least achieved a wider circle of critics . |
| 24 | This was due , no doubt , to the fact that though I motored further and further from the house , I continued to find myself in surroundings with which I had at least a passing acquaintance . |
| 25 | Most of the dives that week had at least 10 metres . |
| 26 | The ambiguities and sub-clauses to be found in much of the press coverage during 1980–1 had at least acted as a countervailing tendency against the more extreme forms of discourse which blamed the riots completely on black people . |
| 27 | Jacky Lee , it seemed , had arrived in time , as an eighteen year old , to be part of Peter Thomson 's British Open swansong , but seven years later , Queenslander Thomson decided he had at least one more British Open title to win in him . |
| 28 | But He had at least one advantage over Colbert . |
| 29 | By this time , all provinces except Zambezia had at least 40 per cent female enrolment . |
| 30 | I reckoned that I had at least one brigade of white cells on the start line with other brigades available as required . |