Example sentences of "at least [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Multiprocessors should perform at least twice as fast as the current top-end Model 755 workstation which goes to 150 SPECfp92 and 80 SPECin92 . |
| 2 | If you want to get somewhere else , you must run at least twice as fast as that ! ’ |
| 3 | In fact , depending on the size of the excavation and the range of finds , more people may be engaged in the post-excavation analysis than during the actual excavation ; and whatever the size of the site , the post-excavation analysis takes at least twice as long as the excavation itself . |
| 4 | In the male , the body is at least twice as long as the manubrium , while in the female , it is relatively shorter . |
| 5 | Despite this , most people persist in proposing their ideas at least twice as often as they suggest them ! |
| 6 | Bill the dog always seems to walk at least twice as far as I do , running ahead for a while and coming back to check that I 'm following before he dives down a hole after rabbits that he never catches . |
| 7 | Most of the time one was all right — or at least as all right as one had ever been — and then out of the blue it struck , a hideous uprush of fear , of longing , of shame . |
| 8 | The clearances in neighbouring Java started at least as long ago as 4800 BP . |
| 9 | This would imply that the primordial black hole closest to the earth is probably at least as far away as the planet Pluto . |
| 10 | ‘ Ideas ’ have played a part in philosophy at least as far back as Plato , for whom they had a reality of their own quite apart from any relation they might have to our minds . |
| 11 | Ronald Reagan 's serious interest in politics dates at least as far back as his early days in Hollywood and , given the later doubts about his intelligence , it is interesting to note that , at this stage , he hardly lived up to the image of an empty-headed film actor . |
| 12 | Educationalists have taken such stances throughout the history of compulsory schooling and they can trace the roots of their position at least as far back as the writings of William Godwin ( 1756–1836 ) and J. J. Rousseau ( 1712 — 78 ) . |
| 13 | In forging this connection between familial morality and the strength of the nation state , Hopkins was drawing on a long-established tradition of moral philosophy dating at least as far back as the late eighteenth century . |
| 14 | The system was improved in 1597 , when ministers and churchwardens were instructed henceforth to keep their records in a bound register and to copy out surviving documents at least as far back as 1558 , when Elizabeth came to the throne . |