Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] at least [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reg looked at least three divisions better than anyone else on the park , and many of us thought it incomprehensible of ‘ Bencey ’ to literally drag him off after only five minutes . |
| 2 | Instability in Mali sent at least 15,000 Tuareg refugees fleeing into the southern Algerian departments of Tamanrasset , Adrar and Illizi . |
| 3 | Rain and flooding in the Danube basin in Germany and Austria killed at least nine people in early August ; flooding and tornadoes reported on Aug. 8 killed a further 27 people near the Soviet Black Sea resort of Sochi . |
| 4 | In some more recent translations of the New Testament , he is named as such , making it explicit , even to lay readers , that Jesus included at least one Zealot — one political extremist — among his immediate followers . |
| 5 | We know that Julian had at least two servants called Sara and Alice , who did her shopping and ran errands . |
| 6 | Arnold has hinted to pals that Mona 's friendship with David Mellor played at least some part in his marriage break-up . |
| 7 | Para-military police reinforcements were drafted into Calcutta after the explosion , just four days after a series of bombs in Bombay killed at least 250 people . |
| 8 | He and his wife Mary had at least seven children . |
| 9 | During the period 1617–30 Monteverdi composed at least eight operas or quasi-operatic works , nearly all for his old masters , the Gonzaga dukes of Mantua , and all destroyed when the Imperialist army sacked Mantua in 1630 . |
| 10 | Flash floods in the Afghan Hindu Kush mountains north of Kabul in early September killed at least 800 people , according to government officials and aid workers [ for floods in Pakistan see this page ] . |
| 11 | A gynaecologist who worked in the Maternity " Hospital in San Salvador saw at least five women every day who were suffering from serious complications after a badly performed abortion . |
| 12 | During the 1970s Lima had at least four times been the object of investigations by parliamentary commissions which had looked into his connections , as a member of local government , with the local construction sector in the 1960s . |
| 13 | ( Kilvert paid at least two visits to France and Switzerland , but neither of these is covered by the diary : in 1878 he was also offered the English chaplaincy at Cannes , but refused it . ) |
| 14 | Aaron had at least three sons , Elijah ( Elias ) , Haim ( Vives ) , and Isaac , and perhaps a fourth son , Abraham . |
| 15 | It was clear that he and Talbot had at least one thing in common — the wish that he remain aboard the Ariadne . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Elizabeth Nihell had at least one child . |
| 18 | The presence of troops and tanks on the streets , mainly at key intersections , caused minimal disruption to normal life and provoked no immediate public protests , although four major bomb attacks between April 8 and 14 by Sendero Luminoso guerrillas in Lima and its port Callao killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens more . |
| 19 | Odinga said on Dec. 18 that FORD needed at least six months to organize itself . |
| 20 | John had at least four sons and three daughters , probably all by his first wife . |
| 21 | Batchelors had at least one barge , the " British Oak " . |