Example sentences of "[vb past] at least [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | On two occasions during this period he told at least four people that money had been found by her body . |
| 2 | On the day after his inauguration the new President ordered at least 162 people — including his immediate predecessor Ertha Pascal-Trouillot and her entire Cabinet — not to attempt to leave the country for one month . |
| 3 | Bosnian leaders , however , accused the FRY of attempting to deny responsibility for Serb attacks , such as the June 23 shelling which killed at least 14 people in Sarajevo city centre , which was crowded with people after an apparent lull in the fighting . |
| 4 | A HUGE bomb killed at least 45 people in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta early today , four days after a series of explosions tore through Bombay on the west coast . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A bomb explosion at Algiers 's Houari Boumedienne airport on Aug. 26 killed at least nine people and injured 128 . |
| 8 | Le Monde of Feb. 6 reported that the quake had caused floods which killed at least 200 people in the south-west of the country . |
| 9 | They said the part was not on the Boeing checklist , even though it has been widely blamed for the crash , which killed at least 43 people . |
| 10 | APOWERFUL bomb killed at least 40 people and wounded 350 in Bogota yesterday when it wrecked the headquarters of the Department of Administrative Security , the government agency charged with bringing Colombia 's drug dealers to heel . |
| 11 | A mujaheddin rocket attack on Kabul on Feb. 29 killed at least 21 people . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | APOWERFUL bomb killed at least 50 people and wounded 500 in Bogota yesterday when it wrecked the headquarters of the Department of Administrative Security , the government agency charged with bringing Colombia 's drug dealers to heel . |
| 15 | An earthquake in April 1991 [ see p. 38142 ] killed at least 50 people , injured hundreds more , and caused widespread devastation to homes , businesses and the infrastructure . |
| 16 | POLICE hunting bombers who killed at least 250 people in a Bombay bloodbath yesterday found an unexploded bomb intact on a stolen motorcycle . |
| 17 | POLICE hunting for bombers who killed at least 250 people in Bombay got their biggest break so far yesterday when they found an intact bomb inside a stolen motorbike . |
| 18 | A few hours earlier two more big bombs were found as the country 's commercial capital went determinedly back to work three days after the blasts that killed at least 250 people . |
| 19 | The blast follows a series of bomb attacks that killed at least 250 people and injured about 1,200 four days ago in Bombay , India 's commercial and banking centre . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the early nineteenth century , the area — whose most celebrated son was the Rev Sabine Baring-Gould , composer of the hymn ‘ Onward Christian Soldiers ’ — supported at least 100 people . |
| 22 | In the latest food poisoning epidemic , which made at least 30 people ill in a private West Country hospital two weeks ago , sandwiches are the prime suspects . |
| 23 | Violent anti-government demonstrations on Feb. 7 in Karachi , the capital of Sind province left at least 60 people dead and over 100 injured . |
| 24 | In total the floods left at least 137 people dead or missing and some 160,000 homeless . |
| 25 | And since there were nine provinces , each political secretary had at least 100 people reporting directly to him , many times what the doctrine of the span of control would allow . |
| 26 | Unconfirmed reports said at least six people were killed and 15 wounded . |
| 27 | One member of the crowd said at least 30 people had been arrested . |