Example sentences of "[was/were] at least [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the same evidence could have led to a theory celebrating the system which , by laying down norms , establishing disciplines and , most important of all , providing scripts that , while not always particularly imaginative , were at least a sound basis to work from , enabled these directors to realize their individual vision . |
| 2 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 3 | The footsteps were getting nearer and from the sound of it there were at least a dozen men . |
| 4 | As for the book , there was at least no drastic change of plan , but rather a continuation of work already done : " the short work " was surely not all that " finished " by the end of March . |
| 5 | Taji Bey ( Tacizade Cafer Celebi : d. 921/1515 ) who , as a muderris , having reached the Mahmud Pasa medrese in Istanbul , the status of which is uncertain but which was at least a 40-akce medrese , left teaching to become nisanci twice , from 903/1497–8 to 917/1511 and again early in the reign of Selim I , and then Anadolu kazasker In Sha'ban 920/October 1514 , in which post he was executed on 8 Rajab 921/18 August 1515 . |
| 6 | The course the Governors decided upon was to increase numbers in planned stages to about 1,000 , which would entail a much smaller rise in the fees , and also to admit girls : this would avoid any potential lowering of standards , for there was a demand for places for girls , and there was at least a moral commitment to take some of the Convent 's Sixth Formers when it closed . |
| 7 | ‘ Killed in action ’ was at least a positive end , but ‘ Prisoner of war ’ — waiting for two or three years for other people to win the war for you — was just ineffectual and pitiable , an end which was also not an end . |
| 8 | Another factor , however , was related to the city itself ; the entrenched and static nature of politics in the city did not encourage activities which assumed that there was at least a little capacity for the political system to respond to popular campaigning . |
| 9 | Up until the eve of the First World War resistance and insurrection , although limited , had persisted particularly in the wild hill country of the Sino-Vietnamese border and when the war began in 1914 and the reserves of power available to France , both French and Vietnamese , began to be drained off there was at least a local opportunity for revived resistance . |
| 10 | Now , however , there was at least a basic system of government-organized welfare , through the relief programmes and social security . |
| 11 | It was at least an important dream , a literary dream , that dictated the pattern of our days . |
| 12 | But Greville was at least an able man , who in other offices showed some worth . |
| 13 | It was at least the sixth time over a two-year period that the unveiling had been postponed . |