Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] least " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it then to be concluded that the Cromer area has been downwarped at least 70 m since the Cromerian interglacial , or , if such an amount of downwarping seems to be excessive , that the sea level of the Cromerian interglacial was not as high as 70 m above the present ? |
| 2 | For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 5 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 6 | If he had grown opium on his half acre , he would have been guaranteed at least 20,000 rupees . |
| 7 | Not everything was in ruins : rising through the rubble were banks of communications and control consoles , housed in cabinets with flowing , plastic lines that must have been designed at least a century previously . |
| 8 | He estimated that the car must have been doing at least 18 miles per hour on the curve where it overturned . |
| 9 | It is also necessary for all breeding stock to have been graded at least ‘ very good ’ by two different judges at official shows . |
| 10 | Pitmen in Northumberland and Durham were working six or seven hours in 1765 but seem to have been working at least eight by the end of the century , as Whitehaven 's colliers had already been doing in 1765 . |
| 11 | Benjamin 's case , though , was subtly different : for the most part family emigration seems to have been prompted at least as much by the need or the desire to leave one place as it has been by the yearning to live somewhere else . |
| 12 | Peter Wickins had been stabbed at least four times in the chest . |
| 13 | Simon Hayday , who 's in his early twenties , had been stabbed at least six times . |
| 14 | The usefulness of having voice-parts in score , so that they could be played on a keyboard instrument ( as distinct from the highly embellished transcriptions ) or used ‘ for the study of counterpoint ’ , had been recognized at least as early as 1577 , when Gardano published two such volumes , one of Rore 's four-part madrigals , the other of miscellaneous pieces . |
| 15 | An inquest in the town was told yesterday that Swales , who had drunk six pints , had been seen at least once before trying to beat trains over the unmanned crossing . |
| 16 | Twenty-four theses from data set C recorded no consultations , but had been cited at least once . |
| 17 | In 1983 , despite the evident risks , and with claims that Kharg Island had been destroyed at least once , loadings continued . |
| 18 | Despite the restriction of the survey to schools which had been scheduled at least to have made a start on the review , only four-fifths of the teachers included actually had . |
| 19 | His car had been damaged at least six times and he 'd moved his double glazing factory because of three attempted robberies . |
| 20 | It was an important administration and social centre and had been populated at least two thousand years BC . |
| 21 | At the time of the explosion , he had been trapped at least by the legs in a corner where his shoes were found and some debris had fallen on him . |
| 22 | To a certain extent , age was an important factor in that the older user was more likely to have reached the stage in his or her career where all the other options had been tried at least once . |
| 23 | The conference had been postponed at least twice since November reportedly for " logistical reasons " . |
| 24 | Although during the winter there had been no running water this had been restored at least in the centre of the town . |
| 25 | We 've been taking at least one call a day for more than a year . ’ |
| 26 | Cos we 've been talking at least there . |
| 27 | Of the 307 theses in data set C , 230 ( 75% ) have been consulted at least once . |
| 28 | All the Okapi work has been done on systems which have been developed at least to a point where they are reliable and complete enough to be installed in a library unattended . |
| 29 | Do you know that two-thirds of obstetricians in the States have been sued at least once in their lives ? |