Example sentences of "have [vb pp] at [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jumped ‘ The gunman got out of a window and must have jumped at least 25 feet to the ground . |
| 2 | One must be conscious of the pressures under which local authority social workers operate , particularly in boroughs such as that with which this case is concerned , but nonetheless one might have hoped that the letter would have received at least some acknowledgement . |
| 3 | I might have travelled at almost eight thousand inches an hour if it had n't been for the stops . |
| 4 | But , such was her superiority over Good For The Roses and 17 others that she could have won at almost any distance . |
| 5 | There must be something spicy in that combination : Daine could have solved at least three quarters of the crimes in the City just by owning up . |
| 6 | The half-life is defined as the period during which half the number of atoms of an isotope will have undergone at least one disintegration . |
| 7 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 8 | Police believe his attackers may have robbed at least nine old people in the same area . |
| 9 | They must have drawn at least 2 games then . |
| 10 | The robbers would have needed at least 16 large suitcases to carry off the cash , said bank spokesman , Jean-Claude Bach . |
| 11 | We will have produced at least six criteria . |
| 12 | Rangers should have had at least one goal . |
| 13 | After four and a quarter years , some firms will already have had at least two visits and many in category 1 will be facing a second visit in the near future . |
| 14 | Speed could have had at least 3 goals , and Deane could have had 3 . |
| 15 | And I expect if your father had n't died she 'd have had at least twenty children ! |
| 16 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 17 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |
| 18 | You 'll have spent at least one day testing everything to see if it 's okay before you show it to the public . |
| 19 | We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject . |
| 20 | Although this would hardly seem fast enough to catch prey , the smaller reptilian and amphibious animals would also have run at similarly slower speeds . |
| 21 | They must have gone at least three miles along the Atherton Road already . |
| 22 | J. says I must have eaten at least three of the pounds myself , but that 's just his usual exaggeration . |
| 23 | It must have represented at least three weeks wages for the average man in the village . |
| 24 | For the next few years American audiences were shown aspects of their society that they could never have expected to have encountered at the movies and it must have struck at least some members of the public that film-going had become a more serious business . |
| 25 | George could have cabled Maxim , but that would have meant a cypher clerk at each end reading the material , and a letter by diplomatic bag would have taken at least thirty-six hours . |
| 26 | Faye would have taken at least half an hour . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Ask yourselves , ’ he questioned the jury , ‘ is it possible that two exceptionally strong and stalwart officers could be put to death so easily by just one man and a mere youth , or would it have taken at least three if not four men to overcome them and cause such severe injuries ? , |
| 28 | He carried out the raid on the night of 24 December and would have taken at least three days to return to Jalo . |
| 29 | Thus , after two days in which a negotiated settlement to the original squabble seemed possible , an ultimatum to the Vietminh to clear out of Haiphong in two hours led to a bombardment which must have killed at least 1,000 people , many if not most of whom would be described as innocent civilians . |
| 30 | In the time they had been kept waiting , Patrick calculated , the Bonnard Renault could have covered at least five hundred miles of autobahn . |