Example sentences of "[vb past] at most " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Clwyd , the terminal at Point of Ayr promised at most 132 jobs for the duration of the drilling process , she said . |
| 2 | Clive Ponting qualifies his own claims concerning American leverage by acknowledging that Wilson was wholly opposed to devaluation , and differed at most from the Americans over the details of the British role East of Suez . |
| 3 | Sakau , a narcotic slime served at most community gatherings and sold in local bars , is made from the roots of Piper methysticum , a relative of pepper . |
| 4 | The photograph that Boy looked at most often and which he sometimes even left out of the box and kept on the floor beside his bed as he slept was one that looked like a photograph of Boy himself . |
| 5 | The origin , heyday , disuse and final dismantling of the inclined plane at Foxton occupied at most thirty-four years , eighteen of which belong to the period of disuse . |
| 6 | After London , the show moved to the provinces and appeared at most of the larger towns ; the show was to catch the imagination of audiences for a full three years . |
| 7 | Instead , consonant with the prevailing economic orthodoxy , the public interest became at most a background justification for the free availability of incorporation and limited liability . |
| 8 | A woman with an ‘ afflicted ’ husband told the 1888 Select Committee on Sweating that she ‘ finished ’ four pairs of trousers a day , for which she made at most 1/2d , that her wages were 4d per day less than four years previously , and that after paying her rent , she had 5/ a week on which to keep her three children , her husband and herself . |
| 9 | In this he refers to a St. Kilda man who had occasion to visit Harris and later Skye , and of that trip Buchan writes thus : — ‘ One of the things he and they with him wondered at most was , the Growth of Trees , they thought the Beauty of Leaves and Branches admirable , and how they grow to such a Height above Plants was far above their Conception . |