Example sentences of "[vb past] at least [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political violence was rampant , and still is : it cost at least 3,000 lives in 1990 . |
| 2 | Yet , however extended , the basic process of writing and printing retained at least some elements of mediation . |
| 3 | Levi ( 1987 ) found that commercial fraud recorded by the London fraud squads represented nearly three times the total cost of all property crimes in London , and that 40 per cent of companies in the survey reported at least one fraud costing over 50,000 . |
| 4 | Table II shows the death rates for trials that reported at least one death . |
| 5 | Young led , in terrace parlance , the steaming in , which at one stage involved at least 10 players with punches appearing to be thrown . |
| 6 | The Board itself involved at least three meetings a year , plus briefings with the secretary , membership of ad hoc meetings and working parties , and the preparation and conduct of visits ( as Chairman he initially went on all visits ) . |
| 7 | This involved at least 1000 colliery and ‘ temporary ’ dwellings and was achieved without any of the controversy associated with the Category D policy in County Durham ( see Blackman , 1987 ) , largely because residents got good modern dwellings close to their original homes . |
| 8 | But nor had she been allowed to use the telephone or leave the office , except for one visit to the toilet down the corridor accompanied by a sour-faced secretary who weighed at least twelve stone and insisted she leave the door ajar . |
| 9 | It must have been up there for years , it weighed at least 14 carats and sat like a throbbing lime fruit pastille on the back of my unmoving hand . |
| 10 | Comparison of ‘ To Lucinda ’ with the first publication of ‘ The Rural Maid 's Reflexions ’ shows that Browne , for whatever reason , changed at least one title , though he may have been returning to the original . |
| 11 | As discussed in section 3.2.1 , there is much debate as to when people first colonised the Americas but it occurred at least 12 kyr BP and there is evidence ( section 3.3.1 ) that some early plant and animal domestications occurred in Central and South America . |
| 12 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 13 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 14 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 15 | They believed at least 5 percent of the people would vote for a cleaner , safer and kinder future . |
| 16 | If Levitation dropped at least three songs from their set tonight they could have been dynamically interesting instead of sparsely tedious , but at least they would n't get invites to a House Of Love musical appreciation party . |
| 17 | In the ‘ particularly brutal ’ murder , the victim suffered at least 16 blows to her head from a lump hammer , Mr Kallisher told the jury of seven women and five men . |
| 18 | The majority of cases were dealt with in a routine , bureaucratic fashion and suffered at least one adjournment . |
| 19 | After the cover had gone to press , the piece was dropped because we felt , on reflection , that the Maxwell family deserved at least one week of post-mortem respite . |
| 20 | On Aug. 5 security forces shot and wounded at least three supporters of Halidi who allegedly disturbed a meeting of government sympathizers in Mutsamudu , Nzwani ( formerly Anjouan ) island . |
| 21 | In nearby Bhaktapur , traditionally a communist stronghold , police killed five demonstrators and wounded at least 20 others . |
| 22 | On two occasions during this period he told at least four people that money had been found by her body . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It became subsequently a very celebrated and gallant defeat indeed , as the subject-matter of the great Anglo-Norman epic of the Chanson de Roland , composed at least 300 years after the event . |
| 25 | Margaret , the charming supervisor , became a great favourite of CBC staff and artists over the years , for most of us ate at least one meal a day in that friendly oasis . |
| 26 | Now it seemed at least twelve feet in height , roughly humanoid in shape and wearing what looked like a plastic bucket on its head . |
| 27 | Although all but 20 library authorities noted at least some courses offered by central units , not all of these libraries perceived central training staff as having any responsibility for their staff . |
| 28 | For this reason ( among others ) families directed at least one son into the Church . |
| 29 | Arnold has hinted to pals that Mona 's friendship with David Mellor played at least some part in his marriage break-up . |
| 30 | Most people who have looked at the matter have concluded that deterrence played at least some part in the process . |