Example sentences of "[been] [prep] least [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past year there have been at least eight deaths in custody which are believed to have resulted from torture . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There would , however , have been at least two problems with using this method in the present study . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The damn thing must have been at least two feet long . |
| 6 | Coun Russell said there had been at least two deaths in bedsit fires in Chester in recent years . |
| 7 | There must have been at least one individual who had a different number of chromosomes from his parents . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There has been at least one occasion where we 've caught a cold because this was not done . |
| 12 | He tried to visualize its brown wooden bottom — he could not — there must still have been at least one sheet there . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Apart from our Nimrods , there has been at least one overflight by a Tupolev . ’ |
| 15 | Apparently there have been at least internal discussions of someday perhaps blending parts of the opposing OSF-USL technologies but it is currently ‘ not part of any strategy on paper or on any timeline . ’ |
| 16 | If he had n't been at least six feet two , Maggie would have hit him . |
| 17 | A year before there had been at least six members of the Conservative Party better known than himself . |
| 18 | Anyway , it had been a very long time ago , goodness gracious , it had been at least six years . |
| 19 | The image omitted almost constant service to the Sanusis ; it also omitted what must have been at least intermittent contact with the Turks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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. |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There have also been at least five hospitalisations in the North-west recently , all people who became catatonic after taking what they thought was Ecstasy . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The human rights organization Amnesty International reported on Nov. 12 that in 1992 there had so far been at least 100 murders of unarmed civilians , many of whom had first been threatened , detained or tortured , in south-eastern Turkey and that political killings were continuing " virtually daily " . |
| 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 | But most architects involved in liability cases feel that there has been at least some contribution to his own losses by the claimant . |
| 28 | Since 1981 there have been at least ten studies of programmed ventricular stimulation ( PVS ) in post infarction patients . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If he were Donleavy , he would have had to have been at least ten years older than that to have served in Vietnam . |