Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] least [that] " in BNC.

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1 By his continual switching from one level of style to another , and his equally continual use of characters as ‘ internal reflectors ’ of embarrassment or suspicion , Tolkien showed at least that he was aware of that very predictable mistake , and ready to do what he could to help his readers round it .
2 It meant at least that someone had been in the burial mound , though not necessarily recently .
3 He knew at least that she was a different person from the girl he had taught to climb trees and to shoot with the bow and he was a little in awe of her .
4 erm And he obviously thought at least that he had shaken off religion for good .
5 But the denouement of the Soviet military presence in Egypt proved at least that the concession of military facilities to the USSR was unlikely in itself to induce a dependent alignment on that power .
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