Example sentences of "least [prep] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This worked as a strategy at least for as long as the persons involved lived in the same household and shared their resources . |
| 2 | In this case , it would be hard to find language indicating more clearly that Mr Clayton intended the land to be preserved and managed as playing fields for all time , or at least for as long as the law permitted . |
| 3 | Certainly , and not surprisingly , the higher stratum of more secure workers and to a lesser extent their families had access to better health and also housing provision in this period before the state played a significant role in either area — at least for as long as they remained in fairly regular work . |
| 4 | Even when making full allowance for the cultural context and resource limitations , nearly all independent commentators agree that , at least until very recently , conditions in Indian prisons have been appalling . |
| 5 | On the other hand ( at least until very recently ) , the " emolument package " consisted simply of a standard salary offer . |
| 6 | Louis XV was stating what had , at least until very recently , been a commonplace , when he claimed in 1766 that ‘ in my person alone resides sovereign power … |
| 7 | But the irony is that this perception was not clearly shared by the Conservative high command , at least until quite late in the campaign . |
| 8 | A thorough and detailed biography of Arthur Henderson is also badly needed ; the recent short studies by F. M. Leventhal and Chris Wrigley add little , at least in so far as the events of 1931 are concerned . |
| 9 | It would be a mistake , however , to dismiss this aspect of the Liberal reform programme as being of no legislative or historical significance , at least in so far as the preceding details have revealed that the different schemes were the result of much thought and argument on the part of a number of interest groups , each of which cared about the transition process , believing it to be critical for the economic and moral welfare of working-class youth . |
| 10 | The immediate prospects are not promising for the child , at least in so far as primary schools are concerned . |
| 11 | Some governments , notably the UK , argue that the Fifth Directive should be based on Article 100 ( general harmonisation of national laws ) at least in so far as the provisions on employee representation at board level are concerned , since it deals with the rights of employed persons which fall outside the scope of freedom of establishment governed by Article 54 . |
| 12 | Later he moved over and took his seat in Parliament , where he was able to exploit even grander notions , that public transport be nationalized and another Bill was placed before Parliament , with this in mind , at least in so far as London was concerned . |
| 13 | Dan Graham has always been about geometry , at least in so far as it informs the quasi-architectural environments he makes ( have you yet been delightfully disoriented by the series of glass-walled , open-to-the-sky rooms he has constructed on the roof of the DIA Art Center 's Chelsea outpost ? ) . |
| 14 | In the south , it was to be a different story and with Vietminh claims recognized neither by the British/Indian forces who arrived first nor by the French who followed not long after , and with Japanese forces for the most part under much tighter control , the reassertion of French sovereignty , at least in so far as this might be done through the possession of Saigon , did not have long to wait . |
| 15 | Therefore no more is needed for an event to be an effect , at least in so far as relations of conditionality are concerned , than that the event was such that another one was required for it . |
| 16 | Output at this level is optimal not only for the firm , but also for society , because the type and quantity of goods produced will match the demand for them , at least in so far as demand is represented by the willingness and ability of the consumer to pay . |
| 17 | And I think a common assessment policy if it is to come has to include the private sector at least in so far as the public sector is funded by private money . |
| 18 | Moreover , the Left has tended to turn away from applause for insurrection — at least in so far as prospects for change in Britain are concerned . |
| 19 | At the same time , the independent influence of maternal age on still birth ratios can also be observed at each birth interval , at least in so far as the random fluctuations caused by the small number of cases permit observation . |
| 20 | Hezarfen , in his listing of the Seyhulislams , as distinct from his discussion of the history of the office where he takes a slightly different view , departs significantly in only one respect from Katib Celebi ( at least in so far as can be judged from the one manuscript ) , namely in his treatment of Abdulkerim and Molla Arab . |
| 21 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
| 22 | If one may accept the equivalence of at least the concepts underlying the terms and on the one hand and and on the other , there is thus some solid evidence , in addition to the line of reasoning advanced above , to suggest that the concept of a division between " the interior " and " the exterior " existed at least from fairly early on in the sixteenth century ; and it is not unreasonable to suppose that the terms haric and dahil are not anachronistic in respect of the Kanunname . |
| 23 | But as a Muslim city it never aspired to , nor ever achieved , anything like the turbulent freedom of the Italian city republics , at least till much later . |