Example sentences of "[vb pp] at least " in BNC.
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| 1 | No drugs were permitted at least 48 hours beforehand and during the monitoring . |
| 2 | He kept her waiting a couple of minutes , which raised her suspicions , but when he walked out empty-handed she smiled inwardly at having won at least one small battle between them . |
| 3 | M-19 , participating in the elections following the conclusion of a peace treaty with the government [ see above ] , was thought to have won at least two seats in the House of Representatives and took control of the councils of the small towns of Yumbo , Almaguey and San Alberto . |
| 4 | Although final results were yet to be computed , the opposition Liberal-National alliance appeared to have won at least 19 of the 35 seats in the House of Assembly , with the ALP suffering an adverse swing of around 5 per cent . |
| 5 | Results for the 22 state and federal territory governorships indicated that the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party had lost several governorships , while the opposition Social Christian party ( COPEI ) in alliance with the People 's Electoral Movement ( MEP ) had won at least 10 . |
| 6 | The Movement Towards Socialism ( MAS ) had also won at least four states . |
| 7 | Then the man who is believed to have attacked at least 100 women would never again be a threat . |
| 8 | However , virtually all were designed at least partially to house people and jobs from the older urban cores . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His devastation of Kent in 676 , in the course of which Rochester was ransacked ( HE IV , 12 ) , may have been partly designed at least to deter the Kentish king from attempting to repossess Surrey . |
| 11 | After hearing several witnesses , including Aviv and the Observer 's reporter John Merritt , who had interviewed him in November 1989 , Magistrate Judge Ross found that Aviv had divulged at least part of his report to Merritt and had thereby waived work-product protection . |
| 12 | The wooden houses off Blackfriars Street , already referred to ( p. 51 ) , were ultimately rebuilt at least twice in masonry , and it is interesting to observe that there was little change in the original property boundaries through to post-Roman times , despite changes in use . |
| 13 | He subsequently went into partnership ; Stratford Mills were operated by Biddle and Bishop during the 1830s , although in later years , other tenants such as corn merchants , Reynolds and Allen , occupied at least part of the mills . |
| 14 | The Staffel had claimed at least 42 victories , of which 20 ( including one over Yugoslavia ) had been credited to Müncheberg , whose score now stood at 43 . |
| 15 | The government of Papua New Guinea announced on Feb. 22 that it was about to hold peace talks with the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) aimed at ending the secessionist rebellion which began in 1988 and had claimed at least 100 lives . |
| 16 | To encourage the use of unleaded petrol in the UK , Tesco has now installed at least one unleaded pump in nearly all of our 80 petrol stations . |
| 17 | The goddess had repelled at least ten attempts on her virginity , but the success of Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing in 1953 created a demand that is still not satisfied . |
| 18 | The Gunners ' services were regularly sought by the England selectors , and between April 1933 and November 1948 the England side for full internationals always included at least one Arsenal man . |
| 19 | It would have been better , however , if Seikosha had included at least one more as standard . |
| 20 | It would have been better , however , if Seikosha had included at least one more as standard . |
| 21 | This ominous escalation of tension has come amid reports that the rail blockade of Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh by Azerbaijan — partially lifted at least in recent days — has been re-imposed after fresh violence . |
| 22 | Thirdly , Section 28 brings increased uncertainty into the librarian 's position with respect to censorship and the law — just after the News International case had clarified at least one aspect of it . |
| 23 | For each of the 51 case children whose mother was interviewed at least one mother of a corresponding control was also interviewed : the numbers of cases having one , two , three , four , five , and six corresponding interviewed control mothers were one , three , three , 21 , 15 , and eight respectively . |
| 24 | He must have come at least a mile across the fields and climbed over a stock-proof fence . ’ |
| 25 | But what was the bottom income line above which recipients can be presumed to have enjoyed at least the modicum of comfort above subsistence and simple " decency " ? |
| 26 | Newens 's views were perhaps influenced by his contacts with Ceauşescu and he had written or edited at least three books about Ceauşescu : Nicolae Ceauşescu — the Man , His Ideas and the Achievements on the Road to Socialism ( which appeared in at least three editions between 1972 and 1978 to satisfy popular demand ) , Talking with Nicolae Ceauşescu , and Nicolae Ceauşescu — The Effort to Create a Modern Romania . |
| 27 | Most experienced anglers know of fish being caught at least twice on the same day but the tale of Dead Eye Dick , the pike from Sutton Coldfield , takes a lot of beating . |
| 28 | The opposition press also said he 'd pupped at least five children . |
| 29 | The committee , which is to report before Christmas , is expected at least to recommend the lifting of the ban on scientific whaling and to permit a target catch of 100 minke whales . |
| 30 | Every point on the Earth 's surface between these two latitudes was imaged at least once every 18 days by Landsats 1–3 , and is imaged every 16 days by Landsats 4 and 5 . |