Example sentences of "have been [prep] least [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Is he aware that there has been at least one case in which , having seen a name badge , a claimant looked in the phone book and traced the Benefits Agency employee to his home .
2 Apart from our Nimrods , there has been at least one overflight by a Tupolev . ’
3 There has been at least one occasion where we 've caught a cold because this was not done .
4 Frankly , it is not an outstanding record of achievement , considering there has been at least one Second Division club in the semi-finals for 30 of the 47 seasons since the last war .
5 But most architects involved in liability cases feel that there has been at least some contribution to his own losses by the claimant .
6 The image omitted almost constant service to the Sanusis ; it also omitted what must have been at least intermittent contact with the Turks .
7 The letters must have been at least two feet in height and to do this job from a ladder , with only a young apprentice to hold it steady was quite a feat .
8 The damn thing must have been at least two feet long .
9 The earliest date at which these four could have formed part of an ‘ organised backlash ’ would have been at least eighteen months after what Hall et al.
10 There must have been at least one individual who had a different number of chromosomes from his parents .
11 He tried to visualize its brown wooden bottom — he could not — there must still have been at least one sheet there .
12 Before that stage is reached , however , there will invariably have been at least one case conference with social workers , paediatricians , child psychologists and others and as Senior Solicitor it is my responsibility to ensure all important case conferences receive legal advice on the evidence available and the prospects of success . ’
13 She was barely seventeen , the youngest of the Three Musketeers , as they had styled themselves long ago ; yet in everything except appearance she might have been at least ten years older .
14 It is believed there must have been at least three people who knew exactly what they were looking for .
15 A Darlington police spokesman said the gang had broken into the offices , just off Hollyhurst Road , after 10.30pm on Friday night and the size of the safe indicated there must have been at least three people involved .
16 There must have been at least twenty cavalrymen rowelling their horses down the cart track .
17 There must have been at least 30 people at the summit that day , and at the sound of plastic and thin glass striking skull through wool , every head turned to see what would happen next .
18 Although most tanker owners and their crews were opposed to the idea of arming their ships , there appears to have been at least one exception : a Greek-flag cargo ship , the Norasia Karsten , was alleged to have fired a missile at a US helicopter in January 1987 , a charge the owners denied .
19 If he were Donleavy , he would have had to have been at least ten years older than that to have served in Vietnam .
20 He said figures revealed there from 1978–93 there had been at least 57 suicides within the force but that the police authorities were reluctant to admit this .
21 A year before there had been at least six members of the Conservative Party better known than himself .
22 Anyway , it had been a very long time ago , goodness gracious , it had been at least six years .
23 Half of the reported difficulties had been at least five years earlier , and only one in three had involved any question of difficulty over getting credit .
24 Coun Russell said there had been at least two deaths in bedsit fires in Chester in recent years .
25 He said that every weekend until recently there had been at least three incursions , most of which he had intercepted .
26 Despite the fact that there had been at least 350 murders in Haiti in the past year , Avril responded to the attack by claiming that emergency measures were necessary " to protect democratic accomplishments against terrorism " .
27 In 1993 in the Thames Valley police area , there 've been at least 15 attacks and two of those resulted in the death of the animal .
28 The Labour party won control of Derbyshire with a substantial majority in 1981 and the inspector of constabulary says that there have been at least eight years of progressive underfunding by the police committee — 1.8 per cent .
29 In the past year there have been at least eight deaths in custody which are believed to have resulted from torture .
30 In the 14 years since 1978 , during which I have been the only consultant physician in respiratory medicine in West Cumbria , there should , according to the above statistics , have been at least 70 deaths from asthma and yet I know of very few , having personal knowledge of only three .
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