Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at least [det] " in BNC.

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1 The Israeli-Syrian track got off to the fastest start last year , when the new Rabin government promised to trade at least some of the Golan Heights for peace .
2 The man they chose , John Frohnmayer , feels he managed to do at least that .
3 So the family , we as a family were better off than the majority of er of families er in so far that er er whilst we were a a fair sized family , we did have at least some income , in the form of unemployment pay er that my father received .
4 Donna had managed to disguise the worst of the bruising on her top lip beneath some foundation cream and a little rouge had given at least some artificial colour to her cheeks , but as she pulled down the sun-visor on the driver 's side and peered into the mirror she realized she looked as tired as she felt .
5 I had to install at least another four in the kitchen in my present home , to cater for all the electrical appliances .
6 Perhaps it meant that Cindy Hill had revealed at least some of whatever it was that bothered her , which was a good thing , really .
7 And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) .
8 Few under 75 had spent any time in such homes but more than half those dying when they were aged 85 or more had spent at least some of the last year of their lives in one .
9 It is fairly clear that they had rediscovered at least some of Mendel 's laws before his work was known to them .
10 The scowl too had gained at least another twenty years of maturity .
11 Perversely , George Birkitt seemed to have lost his lines completely and had to take at least half a dozen prompts .
12 There was — a gulp and a yell and the rest of the glass ( he had drunk at least some ) flew up and out and on to the sanded floor of the dining area .
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