Example sentences of "[art] least [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not the least of the advantages enjoyed by the peripheral regions was cheap coastal transport . |
| 2 | Simple requests for such increases were the least of the shipowners ' concerns , while on shipboard conditions there could be no cause for complaint because of the " army of government officials who were there to keep them up to the mark " . |
| 3 | STAMINA is not the least of the qualities demanded of the professional cricketer . |
| 4 | ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice ’ |
| 6 | Greed is the least of the problems , though the administration was not amused when Israel pushed its luck by suggesting that to help with its Gulf expenses — missile damage , the cost of the prolonged military alert , loss of tourism and so on — America might like to double the $3 billion it already gives Israel each year . |
| 7 | That , in many ways , was the least of the problems . |
| 8 | Not the least of the problems which Cnut faced as king of England was an important and complex relationship with the English church . |
| 9 | Not the least of the offences which led to Paul 's assassination in 1801 was his contemptuous treatment of courtiers . |
| 10 | It is clear from the surviving correspondence that a naval career had become attractive to the Scottish gentry by the middle of the eighteenth century , perhaps because expenses at sea were much lower than those incurred in an army officer 's mess , while not the least of the attractions of a naval career in time of war was the possibility of prize money . |
| 11 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |
| 12 | ‘ In many ways , Clinton 's victory was the least of the unknowns facing the market , ’ said Ian Amstad , economist at Bankers Trust in London . |
| 13 | Birth was the least of the requirements for co-option to this introverted community . |
| 14 | A test ban is the least of the proliferators ' worries . |