Example sentences of "[is] the least [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the least distance ? |
| 2 | " What is the result of our efforts ? " rather than " What is the least cost of our efforts ? " |
| 3 | But [ since m is the least element of S we have ] |
| 4 | Phosphate is the least problem and , perhaps because of the almost profligate use of bone meal and the very long time it takes for the phosphate to be released by bacterial decomposition , is very seldom indeed the cause for worry . |
| 5 | Then unc otherwise unc for some t ε T so that [ since unc and since no integer lies between k and k+1 ( why not ? ) ] t = k +1 is the least integer in T [ contradicting the assumption that T has no such least integer ) . |
| 6 | As our General Election rises to its soggy climax , you ought to compare the success of an economy where they believe that the best government is the least government . |
| 7 | Thomas discussed the relationship between love and poetry much later in Feminine Influence on the Poet : ‘ The love-poem is not for the beloved , for it is not worthy , as it is the least thing that is given to her , and none knows this better than she unless it be the lover … . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think there 's the least danger to you , ’ said Ian reassuringly as they parted . |
| 9 | Get you to answer , that 's the least thing |