Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] least [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These results suggested that in ulcerative colitis , the aberrant mucosal production of IgG1 and IgG2 does not depend on active disease , but is apparently at least partially explained by a genetic impact . |
| 2 | Two months later he was appointed to the recently built Selimiye ( Selim II ) medrese in Edirne , the newest and perhaps at least temporarily the most important of the imperial medreses , from which he nevertheless resigned after only two months , unwilling to accept , in Ata'i 's words , by which he means , presumably , the transfer to Edirne . |
| 3 | Which is perhaps at least partly why that patient , anonymous woman waited at the gate to wave goodbye to Edith Cresson and why she will probably never read Claire Gallois 's book . |
| 4 | of course until December so at least still very much up in the air , but certainly the estimates of the current year are produced of highly |
| 5 | So at least now we 've got a specification to go to , w we know what it looks like and er we 've had one or two quotes in the past week and for firmed those up now and chosen exactly what we want them to do . |
| 6 | Five of the eight were refusers of services whom the development officers visited regularly — usually at least twice a week — to try to get them to accept help . |
| 7 | The indices of skull breakage ( Table 3.5 ) , and tooth loss ( Tables 3.6 and 3.8 ) , show that the damage to the skull , and in particular the percentage incisor loss , is usually at least twice as great in maxillae as opposed to mandibles . |
| 8 | Underneath it all , Seth was still at least partially a man . |
| 9 | This resulted in some success in lowering dolphin mortality , but it is still at least twice as high as during daylight hours . |
| 10 | Yeah but Britain Britain ideologically at least well I 'm I 'm not sure about that . |
| 11 | Notwithstanding the above , considerable variation is permitted as long as the maximum remains reasonably above the minimum ( ie. at least twice ) . |
| 12 | Ian Fleming 's James Bond novels , from Casino Royale ( 1953 ) onwards , characteristically enough , are largely a comic creation ; and though no one would dare call the Bond thrillers realistic , their strength was always at least as much in terms of observed social manners — dress , food , drink and forms of address — as in their innocently violent fantasies about sex and power in the age of the Cold War . |
| 13 | In producing these plans , two other objectives were also at least partly achieved . |
| 14 | Since the variation in 6.4 and 6.5 is partly at least phonetically constrained , it is helpful at this stage to try and summarize these constraints : Rule 1 describes the constraints on variation in tokens of ( o ) , using a conventional generative format . |
| 15 | Another difficulty with the tariff is the fact that there are probably at least as many different tariffs in practice as there are levels of court ( Court of Appeal , Crown Court and magistrates ' court ) . |
| 16 | This would imply that the primordial black hole closest to the earth is probably at least as far away as the planet Pluto . |
| 17 | You should attend for routine follow-up visits as instructed , probably at least once a year . |
| 18 | It is important for the breeder to handle the puppies carefully at least once a day , in order to establish human contact . |
| 19 | Do something that you have never done before at least once each week . |
| 20 | For , as in other spheres , the contribution of amateurs is often at least as significant and valuable as that of professionals . |
| 21 | Casualties among some batteries were in fact often at least as high as among the infantry . |
| 22 | Yes , though it 's interesting with , with , with things like er alcohol and tobacco because they 're , well at least partly legal , erm you know often there 's quite a , a crisp Manichaean division drawn between them and anything that 's illegal erm you know so that you know kind of once , once you start smoking dope you 're on the slippery slope to er you know kind of heroin and crack and all the rest of it |
| 23 | Well I 'm not too sure but well at least enough to pay all the bills and , and have a bit left over . |
| 24 | We think that everybody should come here at least once in their life . |
| 25 | ‘ You can carry on doing my washing , if that will please you — and knowing you as I do , I do n't doubt you 'll be in here at least once or twice a week clearing things up and telling me what a mess I 'm living in — just as you do now . |
| 26 | We dash abroad at least twice a year ( we dashed over to California last November ) and we dash down South to my daughter 's in Hampshire umpteen times a year and we dash seemingly everywhere in the wake of our grandchildren when on school holidays or visiting but I ( if not so much Bett ) also spend a heck of a lot of time just watching ( I prefer to call it scientifically observing ) the world around me and contemplating . |
| 27 | By the end of that evening , after she had sat through a dinner in the large school refectory , listened to Madame Chardin 's opening speech of the term and lain in the dark listening to her new roommates , Katherine did indeed begin to feel if not at home , then at least marginally more comfortable . |
| 28 | There is now quite a clutch of them within the company and the numbers are growing , if not spectacularly then at least steadily . |
| 29 | If it is inevitable that the over-mighty Hun is to be in the driving seat of European security and defence policies , would it not be more honest and dignified if these matters were decided by a majority vote as we could then at least honestly state our position ? |
| 30 | One explanation could be that the prospect of defeat now seems to him , if not inevitable , then at least sufficiently likely to be worth a contingency wager . |