Example sentences of "or [prep] least the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These had to be answered , and answered well — or at least the first ten or so did — because the original questioner and other MPs were allowed to ask supplementary questions . |
| 2 | Without moving his eyes away from her dark head he oscillated between the image of the pure lady accepting the spoon , or at least the rose , and the idea of her calling out in a thrashing orgasm of female pleasure as he spurted and spurted in ecstatic triumph on top of her . |
| 3 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |
| 4 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 5 | He seemed to settle finally for us , us being the police , or at least the fact-seekers and , clearing his throat , he told me that his men with grappling irons and magnets had missed finding the floorboards the first time , probably because the floorboards were n't magnetic . |
| 6 | In 1867 Newman Hall visited America , or at least the northern states , where he was assured a warm welcome because of his support of the North during the recent war . |
| 7 | Bertram explains the male 's tolerance of cubs at kills by the fact that there is a high probability that it is his child or at least the child of the other male , which is itself closely related to him . |
| 8 | There is no cure for mental handicap , but there is prevention , or at least the taking of considered and intelligent precautions to reduce the risk of giving birth to a mentally handicapped child , or of a child becoming mentally handicapped . |
| 9 | European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future . |
| 10 | The same author goes on to say that there are cases where land reform , or at least the break-up of large latifundia or estates , had actually accelerated environmental decline , as in Bolivia in the 1950s or after the emancipation of serfs in Russia in 1816 . |
| 11 | Two or three times a week after that Bridhe , now alert for her , would notice Luch , or at least the slight bulge in the tapestry where she hid . |
| 12 | Sometimes he thought that he needed to feel like a woman , a younger woman or at least The Other Woman ; certainly he needed to feel like The Young Man . |
| 13 | But even when they were famous names like those , Madame used to recite or whisper them like they were the names of lovers or at least the dear departed , girlfriends , people she had actually met . |
| 14 | Writing was a sign of the Fall , it was a kind of punishment ; Dolle was still living in the Garden of Eden or at least the Sugar Bar . |
| 15 | Up to now , the republics and provinces ( or at least the more prosperous ones ) have shown a strong resistance to allowing the federal government to enter the field of income tax . |
| 16 | They need the right skills and motivation or at least the chance that they can somehow acquire these . |
| 17 | Then they were ready to fight the world , or at least the world within reach . |
| 18 | They try to make the weather absorbing , or at least the programmes , by turning the presenters into characters , with jokes and fancy dress . |
| 19 | Such banquets are portrayed for us on the Bayeux Tapestry , or at least the early stages of them . |
| 20 | In ages past , the land must have been continuous , or at least the sea passage but a short one . |
| 21 | A final ingredient to throw into the church planting pot was a clearer link kept with the Cobham Fellowship or at least the Pioneer Leadership Team . |
| 22 | With influences dating all the way back to Rodgers and Hammerstein I certainly had the most complete musical education , or at least the broadest . |
| 23 | I 'll reiterate here that the complexity — or at least the perceived complexity — of the Alpha 's operation could limit its market as far as first time buyers go . |
| 24 | A chapter on homebuilt organisations around the world is instructive , not least to learn that whilst amateur-built aircraft have had official blessing ( or at least the blind eye treatment ) in many Eastern Bloc countries for a decade or more , getting approval to fly a homebuilt in Italy and Germany has been a hard-won struggle against obstinate bureaucracy . |
| 25 | By the end , or at least the last week , of the tour England ‘ B ’ were looking a much better all-round side than when they started . |
| 26 | According to Cohn , Indians preferred a compromise solution , or at least the fiction of a compromise . |
| 27 | I turn now to the question of the relevance of such an account to language learning , in particular as that process is carried out in classrooms under the direction , or at least the surveillance , of the teacher . |
| 28 | The broadsheet idea , or at least the name , was borrowed by The Times newspaper in the First World War , when it organised the printing and distribution of literary extracts , reminiscent of home , for the comfort of the troops . |
| 29 | If the Regent and the cavalry could be brought back , and urged to make some sort of attack , or at least the threat of attack , Edward would have other things to think about than hanging hostages . |
| 30 | Engineer Officers , or at least the more recently joined ones , were brought up to consider metal the thing and sometimes had no patience with wood . |