Example sentences of "at least [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the telephone number I remember to this day , was Porthmadog so that shows it was at least probably the telephone to go into being in Porthmadog . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , at least here the cells have doors . |
| 3 | The other is at least partly the result of what history did to the Greeks between 1453 and 1821 , the centuries of Ottoman rule when ‘ government ’ meant something alien . |
| 4 | In the seventeenth century at least both the Dutch republic and Sweden could claim to rank as great powers in their own right . |
| 5 | They might rightly decide that ‘ at least temporarily the size of their families should not be increased ’ ( Gaudium et Spes 51 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 8 | The language of the novel makes use of this cliché to demonstrate first that there is a profound ambiguity in the social construction of femininity according to which women are passive but at the same time subversive of the binary distinction which so construes them , and second that all people , male and female , are condemned to being at least partially the product of the language of others . |
| 9 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 10 | ‘ At least not the way you think . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ That 's the point , ’ Joe called back now , ‘ I have to do so much reading I 've hardly any time for writing , at least not the kind I want to do . ’ |
| 12 | At least not the kind of food one would like to eat . |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman made a statement in the House about a fast track procedure under which some applicants would be sifted out immediately and would not have the right of appeal — at least not the right of audience in an appeal or representation in an appeal . |
| 14 | ‘ Brain or no brain , I 'd rather you did n't go out alone , at least not the first time , please . ’ |
| 15 | Using an 8-bit sound sampler board with Atari , Archimedes or Amiga computers for sound analysis in physics and biology requires a sample rate of at least twice the highest signal frequency — around 20kHz . |
| 16 | If , say , £400 seems the prudent limit for a particular borrower , but that borrower gets two or more separate cards with the same credit limit , he can use at least twice the amount of credit which has been judged ‘ safe ’ for him . |
| 17 | It certainly is not , in fact most yarns , including industrials , are at least twice the price of an equivalent in the UK . |
| 18 | DEC says it hopes to target the new systems against rivals , such as Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc , by offering at least twice the price-performance . |
| 19 | Radical deputies attempted unsuccessfully on Oct. 2 to postpone the elections by proposing a bill which would require the number of candidates to be at least twice the number of seats at issue . |
| 20 | Standard liver function tests revealed serum alkaline phosphatase concentrations at least twice the upper limit of normal in 13 subjects , but a raised serum bilirubin in only three . |
| 21 | The gel retardation assay is a rapid method which allows to compare at least semi-quantitatively the affinity of RNA polymerases for different promoters in the presence of heparin . |
| 22 | ‘ At least then the drummer feels he 's done something ; it 's using technology to help him , rather than making him feel he 's being replaced . ’ |
| 23 | Now then I was going to ask one simple question and that is , has anyone thought about keep sending postcards to people , er if the , erm reply is going to be delayed in any way , because at least then the person if there 's sufficiently good reference will be able to , phone up and say look you know , yes I 'm not happy , it seems to me that that would be a way forward on that , erm . |
| 24 | Time ( and his bank balance ) will tell , but at least now the whole thing 's up and running he can retreat out of the public eye . |
| 25 | At least there the floor would be still , and she would n't be feeling so horribly queasy , and she 'd have a dry bed . |
| 26 | ‘ Sometimes one does n't get results , or at least sometimes the results are hard to measure . |
| 27 | This fine 18th century building , designed by James Gibbs , is at least symbolically the heart of the university . |