Example sentences of "least the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such caution is prudent in a business where errors of judgement can be extremely expensive ; at least the reader of an auction catalogue knows clearly what view has been taken by the cataloguer on a number of questions . |
| 2 | At nearly all schools no stage performances will be seen by an audience until at least the end of the second term . |
| 3 | At least the telly has n't yet cottoned on to the dogs , I told him , but he said in Mexico it had . |
| 4 | And referee trying to prize them apart , to keep at least the pretence of a fight going . |
| 5 | Ideas of identity and insider integrity in the late 1980s are sustained by the same symbols of status and denigration which have existed since at least the mid-1950s . |
| 6 | At least the lost afternoon guaranteed a certain spontaneity . |
| 7 | Practise stepping quickly from one stance into another , always ensuring that at least the width of a fist separates your leading guards . |
| 8 | We need have no reservation that such memories , not least the sounds , entered deeply into the young boy 's consciousness , as his mother gave vent to her distress in English and her native Yiddish , as well as symbolically rending her clothes and chanting the dirges . |
| 9 | Their whole emphasis was against conventionalism — in every form , not least the sexual , the religious and the artistic . |
| 10 | Make a full-size drawing of at least the bracket . |
| 11 | But at least the Cain 's mob would have made the lunch where the awards were announced . |
| 12 | Hodgson 's brewery , whose tap room in the Bow Road bore the name Bombay Grab , remained pre-eminent in the India beer trade until at least the 1820s . |
| 13 | Yet at least the storm does seem to be over , and the peasants are picking up fallen sticks in the devastated forest . |
| 14 | At least the outcome was appropriate . |
| 15 | Britain had governed Hong Kong for at least the past 25 years only because China allowed it . |
| 16 | These had been in Rome since at least the end of the sixteenth century . |
| 17 | If that suggests an odd set of priorities in what is still quaintly called a players ' game , at least the 21 wore the familiar red jersey with the famous crest , white shorts and blue and green socks . |
| 18 | On the home front , most Fords and Vauxhalls from at least the mid-Eighties can use unleaded . |
| 19 | Sooner , rather than later , Europe will be forced to bring the standard of its financial reporting in line with the rest of the world , not least the US . |
| 20 | At least the object of this man-hunt is not wholly worthless . |
| 21 | Sir : Contentious points are raised in your leading article , ‘ High time for monetary union ’ ( 11 October ) , not least the title , which itself implies an ideological support for ‘ European union ’ in favour of an analytical study of the forces at work in Europe . |
| 22 | He is justifiably proud of what he and his father achieved at Lingfield , not least the deal they struck with the redoubtable Cyril Stein of Ladbrokes when they bought the course from his company seven years ago . |
| 23 | And on one occasion at least the deputies themselves had to pronounce on a crucial compromise resolution whose text had not even been distributed . |
| 24 | We showed that at least the British version of socialism could be reversed and that a nation could win back its prosperity and its pride . ’ |
| 25 | At least the ventilation is improved . |
| 26 | SANDY LYLE conducted another exercise in self-immolation while Chip Beck discovered that his gunpowder was damp and useless but at least the American left a legacy after his first visit to the Suntory World Matchplay Championship . |
| 27 | The future is too precious , at least the three years of European and world championships ending in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 , his fifth Games . |
| 28 | That 's one thing , at least the Provies give us credit for doing this job . |
| 29 | At least the German infantry wo n't be attacking us from across the field in front of our positions , as long as this barrage keeps up . |
| 30 | At least the new Brigadier served in the Irish Guards and they had Pipers . |