Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] at least [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But each of their small squad of 12 won at least one medal in their final count of 16 golds , 13 silvers and nine bronzes the first time this has happened . |
| 2 | A bomb explosion at Algiers 's Houari Boumedienne airport on Aug. 26 killed at least nine people and injured 128 . |
| 3 | I finally ran a copy to earth , with some difficulty , at Penguin 's own bookshop in Covent Garden , and telephone enquiries to a selection of London 's larger booksellers indicated that two out of three had at least one copy on their shelves . |
| 4 | A mujaheddin rocket attack on Kabul on Feb. 29 killed at least 21 people . |
| 5 | Of the surviving compositors I interviewed , one was from a family of 9 children , another from one of 8 , one had at least three sisters , and the last was one of only two , whose father had died young . |
| 6 | Despite the two-child family becoming the average this century , most women married since 1930 have not had two children : three-quarters had at least one child more or less than the average . |
| 7 | Serious rioting in a Hispanic neighbourhood of New York City during the night of July 6-7 left at least one person dead and many others injured , including several police officers . |
| 8 | Throughout Brazil death squads operating against " marginal " members of society in the first half of 1989 killed at least 82 street children and adolescents , according to a survey conducted by IBASE , an independent research institute , and the National Street Children 's Movement welfare organization . |
| 9 | Floods in central and southern areas in late January 1990 killed at least 24 people , damaged over 14,000 houses and 3,000 km of roads , and destroyed bridges and railway lines estimated at millions of dinars . |
| 10 | Microsoft claims FoxPro 2.5 performed at least four times better than its closest rival , Borland 's Paradox 4.0 , in tests carried out by a third party consultant.FoxPro 2.5 will eventually be released for non-Windows DOS , Apple Mac and Unix platforms . |