Example sentences of "[prep] least the " in BNC.

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1 Such caution is prudent in a business where errors of judgement can be extremely expensive ; at least the reader of an auction catalogue knows clearly what view has been taken by the cataloguer on a number of questions .
2 At nearly all schools no stage performances will be seen by an audience until at least the end of the second term .
3 At least the telly has n't yet cottoned on to the dogs , I told him , but he said in Mexico it had .
4 And referee trying to prize them apart , to keep at least the pretence of a fight going .
5 Ideas of identity and insider integrity in the late 1980s are sustained by the same symbols of status and denigration which have existed since at least the mid-1950s .
6 At least the lost afternoon guaranteed a certain spontaneity .
7 Practise stepping quickly from one stance into another , always ensuring that at least the width of a fist separates your leading guards .
8 Make a full-size drawing of at least the bracket .
9 But at least the Cain 's mob would have made the lunch where the awards were announced .
10 Hodgson 's brewery , whose tap room in the Bow Road bore the name Bombay Grab , remained pre-eminent in the India beer trade until at least the 1820s .
11 Yet at least the storm does seem to be over , and the peasants are picking up fallen sticks in the devastated forest .
12 At least the outcome was appropriate .
13 Britain had governed Hong Kong for at least the past 25 years only because China allowed it .
14 These had been in Rome since at least the end of the sixteenth century .
15 If that suggests an odd set of priorities in what is still quaintly called a players ' game , at least the 21 wore the familiar red jersey with the famous crest , white shorts and blue and green socks .
16 On the home front , most Fords and Vauxhalls from at least the mid-Eighties can use unleaded .
17 At least the object of this man-hunt is not wholly worthless .
18 And on one occasion at least the deputies themselves had to pronounce on a crucial compromise resolution whose text had not even been distributed .
19 We showed that at least the British version of socialism could be reversed and that a nation could win back its prosperity and its pride . ’
20 At least the ventilation is improved .
21 SANDY LYLE conducted another exercise in self-immolation while Chip Beck discovered that his gunpowder was damp and useless but at least the American left a legacy after his first visit to the Suntory World Matchplay Championship .
22 The future is too precious , at least the three years of European and world championships ending in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 , his fifth Games .
23 That 's one thing , at least the Provies give us credit for doing this job .
24 At least the German infantry wo n't be attacking us from across the field in front of our positions , as long as this barrage keeps up .
25 At least the new Brigadier served in the Irish Guards and they had Pipers .
26 At least the enemy are in a similar situation probably much worse off then we are judging by the amount of shells passing over our heads to fall in their positions .
27 At least the enemy had taken time to bury the soldiers , but what a way to go ; dead and buried in a ditch hundreds of miles from home .
28 At least the rain keeps the mosquitoes away , and the flashes from the guns lighting up the sky appear somewhat comforting as I doze off , conscious of the rain dripping on to my boots .
29 At least the French soldier can get annoyed just like his British counterpart .
30 On the positive side one could cite the wider political knowledge acquired by a territory invaded on all sides during 1917–21 , so that at least the many peasants , caught up in military life , like our travelling soldier , might acquire broader interests .
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