Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] least [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A case that looks set to rival Outhwaite in notoriety concerns two Feltrim syndicates , where at least £200m of losses are emerging on ‘ excess-of-loss ’ insurance in 1987–89 . |
| 2 | The funds can either be roll-up , where all income is retained and reflected in the price of the fund , or distributor , where at least 85% of the income is paid out in dividends to the investors . |
| 3 | To prevent this , the UK adopted legislation so that only vessels owned by British citizens , or companies that were 75% owned by British citizens and where at least 75% of its directors were British citizens , could register as a UK fishing vessel . |
| 4 | They are , in brief , hard-working and somewhat stressed ; feel dissatisfied with the job they are doing ( or at least bits of it ) ; confused about what they should be doing but wanting to change in the direction of greater impact and relevance of what they do ; have no clear idea how to go about it ; do not feel optimistic about things getting better ; are worried about the amount of emotional energy the job takes up ; and mostly do the best they can , try not to think about it all too much , and hang on till the holidays . |
| 5 | ‘ Or at least inertia certainly comes into it . |
| 6 | It was a normal practice in the period 1259–1340 for the higher offices in the administration of Aquitaine to be held by Englishmen , or at least non-Gascons . |
| 7 | The Delos — or at least Andropulos — knew that we would be permanently tuned to the distress frequency , that we are automatically alerted by bell or buzzer whenever the distress frequency is energized . |
| 8 | Apart from his native language , the British ( or American ) student of English local history will need a nodding acquaintance with , or at least dictionaries of , three other languages . |
| 9 | It is however this very flexibility of the jurisdiction concept which , if pushed too far , contains the seeds of its own destruction , or at least redundancy . |
| 10 | Conversely , many ‘ liberals ’ in the churches in both America and Europe denounce ( but rarely renounce ) capitalism , or at least materialism , but praise the superiority of critical rationalism over Christian dogmas and tradition . |
| 11 | An apparent opportunity for , or at least inclination to , US participation in Vietnamese national affairs as suggested in Saigon was soon to become a recognized imperative in Washington : and when the French ministers arrived in October 1950 to ask how much could be expected from the US to avoid financial disaster it was the drain of resources in Vietnam as much as the problems of French rearmament in Europe which prompted a close examination of French budgetary as well as military plans . |
| 12 | True , there are the remarkable exceptions : Burt 's quarter century escapade in wholesale duplicity is a real shocker — though it may prove nothing so much as that psychology , or at least intelligence testing , has no claim to scientific respectability . |
| 13 | The Godhead , or at least Christology , then appears to be biased against women . |
| 14 | There may also be a degree of self-deception , or at least lack of clarity , on the crucial issue of the distinction between means and ends : is growth seen as a means to long-term profitability , or are profits required as a pre-condition of growth ? |
| 15 | But the existing offspring may benefit more , may need a little bit of extra milk , so the existing offspring may try to erm , demand more milk , or at least milk for longer than the mother to supply . |
| 16 | Since there exists a vital need for government just the same , this faith in the worth of each human being is bound to seek a balance of the two needs in some system of restraints which protects the individual , or at least minorities , against any despotic exercise of political authority . |
| 17 | Likewise , our Institute must lobby to ensure that , if change has to come , then only registered auditors or at least members of the Institute are permitted to sign the compilation report . |
| 18 | ALWAYS on the trail of new and exciting ideas , or at least variations on the oldest ones , Amnesty Fundraising Department is proud to announce the launch of Amnesty 's Walk For Life . |
| 19 | Attacks on the occupant 's blood-pressure can come nowadays , not from an overbearing monarch , but from an apparently limitless number of rebellious back-benchers , trying to establish control , or at least scrutiny , over a series of increasingly overbearing executives . |
| 20 | In so doing he also gave his blessing to — what in effect proved to be the case — declaring the Transkei , or at least Bumbane , the first ANC liberated zone , however fleetingly , yesterday afternoon . |
| 21 | Their presence lingered on ; or at least Mahon 's did . |
| 22 | The ship was constantly visited by birds , and as it ventured further and further from home shores , Gould 's hopes of seeing new species , or at least species he had never seen alive before , rose to dizzying heights of expectation . |
| 23 | It grew quite crowded , since many of the guests had retinues with them , or at least bodyguards . |
| 24 | The consequence is an increasingly standardised way of life or at least aspirations towards a particular way of life across the world . |
| 25 | Rachmanism had gone — or at least Rachman was dead — and , before the property boom of the 1970s , there was empty property in places like Chalk Farm , Ladbroke Grove , Covent Garden . |
| 26 | Latvia — or at least Riga — is more sophisticated than Leningrad or Moscow . |
| 27 | Anyway , the debate ought to be fun since what is certain is that American audiences , or at least distributors , have at least as much contempt as those here for independent features without bankable stars , car chases and expensive special effects . |
| 28 | Previously the disposal had to be by an individual entitled to at least 25% of the voting rights , or at least 5% of the voting rights together with more than 50% of the voting rights being exercisable by the individual 's family collectively . |
| 29 | The Levellers favoured annual , or at least biennial , elections , and suggested that no one should be allowed to stand as a candidate for two successive parliaments . |
| 30 | A key indication of this is that the world system approach , like the dependency approach , is having increasing difficulty in dealing with the development , or at least industrialization , of nonhegemon countries . |