Example sentences of "least [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | States that are exploring a tough policy which borders upon coercion like Kenya will either find that open political protest will challenge the power of the state , or that like family planning in India , an onslaught upon the least economically and politically powerful is only temporarily feasible . |
| 2 | Even the left-wing Tony Benn was relatively quiescent , not least perhaps because he was now the bringer of good news at the Department of Energy , as North Sea oil began to flow in large quantities . |
| 3 | Tom Mboya had supported these moves , not least perhaps because of his long-standing animosity towards Odinga , but in doing so sowed the seeds of his own downfall . |
| 4 | There had been the occasional martial bishops , of course , ever since Odo of Bayeux came across with the Conqueror , not least perhaps because of the knightly or aristocratic houses from which some prelates came , but also because the bishop was often the sole or wealthiest magnate present to defend an exposed region when so many others were away on continental engagements . |
| 5 | And the FDIC says the deal was at least better than those offered by the other bidders , Bank of America and Bank of Boston . |
| 6 | That is at least better than Nigeria or Turkey where despite much fanfare and expensive feasibility studies , nothing at all has happened . |
| 7 | I was 33 by then and played till the end of the season , which was at least better than going out on an injury . ’ |
| 8 | If the European Court of Human Rights had confirmed the view of the Commission , changes in the law would have been called for , at least so as to allow for alteration of all relevant documentation . |
| 9 | His interests are in the practical worlds of economics , human behaviour and technology , and he is at his most impressive in unravelling them , and least so when dutifully ticking off a list of earlier urban theorists . |
| 10 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 11 | The door was a scuffed and peeling blue which had probably been painted at least once since the house was built , maybe to celebrate the toilet coming indoors . |
| 12 | Rather they are emphasising the fact that every programme they show has been seen before , at least once although they are saying that they are ‘ devoted to Britain 's favourite TV programmes ’ . |
| 13 | In fact , during 1943–44 Albert played in every outfield position at least once and he still scored goals that set the fans ' interest alight . |
| 14 | Careful , detail-minded , you check everything at least once and probably twice . |
| 15 | For example , almost everyone now marries at least once and the category of never-married people has virtually disappeared . |
| 16 | A good translator does not begin to translate until s/he has read the text at least once and got a ‘ gist ’ of the overall message . |
| 17 | ( It should be noted that this group of women was selected for the analysis because , at these ages , practically all women in developing countries have married or entered into some kind of conjugal union at least once and , also , because their mating and fertility patterns represent more recent behaviour than those of women in the older reproductive age groups ) . |
| 18 | They screwed him at least once and he knows it . |
| 19 | It means that each customer is visited at least once and the large ones perhaps two or three times during the period . |
| 20 | Having said that , does n't every club turn up for the wrong match on the right day at least once or twice a season ? |
| 21 | To ensure continuity and to give more necessary practice ( further consolidation ) , appropriate homework or a task should be given at the end of each lesson , or at least once or twice a week , depending on the amount of time the student is able or prepared to give up to home study . |
| 22 | But occasionally well not occasionally but quite often , at least once or twice a week , you 'd hear of somebody who is in the thieving business , they 'd got something for sale and you could get that quite cheap . |
| 23 | ‘ Nurse , ’ said Wendy politely , at least once or twice , ‘ the baby is coming out . |
| 24 | ‘ You can carry on doing my washing , if that will please you — and knowing you as I do , I do n't doubt you 'll be in here at least once or twice a week clearing things up and telling me what a mess I 'm living in — just as you do now . |
| 25 | Least noticeably but perhaps most dangerously , the Palestinians living inside the 1949 Armistice Line , barely 11 per cent of the Israeli population at the time , were nevertheless growing faster than the Jewish community and were expected to exceed 20 per cent by the end of the century . |
| 26 | Stressing the apparent universality , intractability and unacceptability of the problem of violence , the theories prominent in Anglo-Saxon lay ideas focus strongly on the irrationality and bestiality of violence … the approach to violence advocated in the discipline of ethology — in which violence is seen at least partly as having genetic determinants — is rather close to Anglo-Saxon folk ideas . |
| 27 | More human than she 'd looked all morning , he thought , realizing he had taken against his witness at least partly because she was alive and the amusing , lively , feminine creature that had been Angela Morgan was not . |
| 28 | After fighting a war at least partly because of the Gulf 's oil , he certainly should be . |
| 29 | Many conventional doctors and scientists , however , are still reluctant to accept that acupuncture can have therapeutic as well as analgesic effects , and this is at least partly because there is as yet little theoretical explanation of how acupuncture could exert therapeutic — as opposed to analgesic — action . |
| 30 | While the most common reference is to the underclass of the great cities , this is at least partly because its presence there is the most inescapably apparent . |