Example sentences of "it [verb] at least [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To the inner city local authority it offers at least the promise of retaining some economic activities that would otherwise leave the area ; and to the inner city resident it offers the prospect , as well as often the reality , of countryside recreation and relaxation .
2 Easily as such writing can , on occasion , include the narcissistic or the vacuously ludic , it has at least the capacity to be seriously — or wittily — challenging , an enabling enhancement of its readers ' vision and decisiveness .
3 It offended no one ; it preserved at least a whiff of the old tradition .
4 It takes at least a couple of seconds before I recognize the last straw .
5 It takes at least an hour to get the system clear and dry again , and is a very frustrating problem , particularly if it occurs in a competition .
6 It employs at least a quarter of a million people , in operations large and small .
7 To say that the Crown had the right of appointment is to say only that it had at least the possibility of a voice , not that it necessarily exercised any real right of selection .
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