Example sentences of "at most " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should n't take more than a couple of weeks at most … |
| 2 | Available at most good sports shops , the Challenge 26 retails at around £45.00 . |
| 3 | Run in an upright ( or , at most , a slightly leaning ) position , so that your balance point stays in the hips . |
| 4 | Personal memories : of the larger knots of passengers at reopened Templecombe than at most other stations between Exeter and Salisbury , a route far busier and better served than ten years ago ; but of travelling from Southampton to Newton Abbot via Westbury having dinner with a traveller from London to Crewkerne , the common Westbury-Taunton section way north of both passengers ' direct line being attractive because of the faster pace of HSTs . |
| 5 | Availability was targeted at 85 per cent , a quantum leap from the 70–75 per cent being achieved at most BR DMU depots up until then , and typical of the radical thinking which accompanied Provincial 's second director , John Edmonds . |
| 6 | In the early 1960s , wheat beers had only 1 or 2 per ent of the Bavarian market , or at most 2 or 3 , reckons Erdinger 's second generation owner , Werner Brombach . |
| 7 | WITH at most one new work a year to his name , Jonathan Burrows is hardly a prolific choreographer . |
| 8 | But fresh controversy arose after the Scottish Office said discussions with industry indicated that the tolls would , at most , be no more than ferry fares — currently £3.80 for a car . |
| 9 | The aim of Jessi is to reduce that to one-third at most . |
| 10 | At most they would have remained as caretakers of the museum pieces of the past , reminding the young in this brave new , smug , boring , consensual world of the bad old days when people felt deeply about big issues and the future was uncertain . |
| 11 | At last it has achieved a respectable measure of unity at most levels of the party . |
| 12 | Whale ( 1977 , p. 80 ) has justified unregulated commercial control of the press by arguing that ‘ a newspaper controlled by a commercial group writes inhibitedly about a handful of concerns at most ; a paper owned by the state , the effective alternative , would be guarded in its outlook on whole areas of the national life ’ . |
| 13 | That was at most a couple of miles up the road and no more than a few pence on the bus . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , despite the fact that a National Government led by MacDonald was the preferred choice of at most one of the three party leaders , the King now knew that both Baldwin and Samuel would be prepared to serve under MacDonald , were the latter willing to continue as Prime Minister . |
| 15 | What Roddick is at most pains to demonstrate is that honesty and commercialism can make compatible bedfellows . |
| 16 | Indian companies tend to allocate at most two per cent of turnover to R&D as against 15 per cent by US firms . |
| 17 | The rest of the population ( excluding expatriates which at most make up two per cent of the population ) hold either Certificates of Identity ( CIs ) or Documents of Identity ( DIs ) . |
| 18 | The young are suckled usually for 18–20 months , 24 months at most . |
| 19 | Even at the last conclave , in 1978 , this hypothetical cardinal could at most have been only 49 years old . |
| 20 | According to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics , customers are expected to buy 100m of these chips at most . |
| 21 | But in Washington these overtures , which happen to have been delivered in a thoroughly unorthodox way , are being sniffed at most gingerly . |
| 22 | Those who do not take A levels in foreign languages or in science drop those subjects after — at most — five years of study . |
| 23 | Without firm action to peg the dollar from either the Bundesbank or the Federal Reserve , such intervention is likely to have , at most , only a small and temporary effect . |
| 24 | Some of them feel they have been by-passed in the new security structure that is being set up with American advice ; American officers are present at most police briefings . |
| 25 | So , too , Equity might order a document executed under a mistake to be rectified ; Common Law would at most treat it as void . |
| 26 | In the one-minute interval between rounds , you have , at most , forty-five seconds to repair the damage . |
| 27 | By then it was at most , as one commentator has put it , ‘ the unfortified hangout of a local strongman ’ . |
| 28 | From a woman , it can at most indicate availability . |
| 29 | It is highly unlikely that you will be doing this around January but diaries are available from many stores at most times of the year . |
| 30 | One snack should constitute , at most , half a bar of chocolate , or two biscuits or a very small cake ( or anything sweet of around 100–150 calories ) . |