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Examples least examples
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Simple sentences
You might at least say thank you.
The food wasn't good, but at least it was cheap.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
At least I have somewhere to sleep.
He had not the least shame in telling his story.
Could you at least give me a hint?
I must weigh at least ninety kg.
Tom is the one least likely to come to your party.
Tom and Mary want to buy a house with at least 3 bedrooms.
Tom and Mary want to buy a house with at least three bedrooms.
At least, no one was hurt.
I think I've done that at least one time.
We used to go to Boston at least once a month.
You could at least try to be a bit more polite, even though it's not like you.
In the 1950's, the Finns were cited as having one of the least healthy diets in the world.
Even if your sentences were actually senseless, you at least have the luck to be able to form beautiful sentences.
My brother is very important. At least he thinks he is.
You should have locked, or at least closed, all the doors.
Chestnuts have to be boiled for at least fifteen minutes.
Friday is when I am least busy.
No matter how busy he was while living abroad, he never failed to write home to his parents at least once a week.
Charles always takes the line of least resistance.
You should brush your teeth at least twice a day.
To investigate the incident would take us at least three weeks.
Most Japanese eat rice at least once a day.
We must sleep at least eight hours a day.
I used to go to plays at least once a week in London.
I'm not sure about Hawaii, where there are also many Japanese, but I do find that having at least some Japanese around can be reassuring. That's how I feel.
If I am dull, I am at least industrious.
It will cost at least 2000 yen to take a taxi.
The trip will take at least five days.
The trip will take at least a week.
The soldier was not in the least afraid to die.
Movie subtitles
At least in an emergency leave.
I would at least like a world without war.
At least let me come with you!
It's the least we can do!
The least little thing caused the trap to snap shut because there were no external resources to draw on.
And if a distant world has similar conditions, there's at least a possibility life could emerge there, too.
It will do this by only looking at 1 00,000 stars out of at least 200 billion in our galaxy.
That probably isn't quite as good as water, but at least it's a medium.
Aliens we contact will at least have learned to live with themselves peacefully.
I don't like things that I can't explain and that I don't have at least some sort of control over.
At least now I'm free.
I wish that your body at least rests in peace.
It's worth to try at least once.
Then, don't you at least need a change of clothes?
That's why. I would at least like a world without war. A place where we won't lose dear ones.
They'll have to spend at least 2 more years here.
You'll see the kids at least. - Of course.
Okay, well, at least let me help.
But at least you got to see your father, which is more than I can say for your own kids, lately.
Ah, well, I mean it's not okay, but at least now you understand how careful we have to be when we do this kind of work.
Or you have to at least see me on Sundays.
You have to at least give me that.
At least that's what my father called them.
We can uncouple the warhead, position the Dolphin III at the proper elevation, and send the missile off. Mathematically, at least, it should be possible to reach the station's orbit and in time.
A few, at least.
It was at least as good as what they sing nowadays.
At least we're still standing, eh?
If you don't trust me enough to let me have a lock on my door, the least you can do is knock. Mom!
I mean, if you're going to review me, at least take a consensus.
At least let his soul be able to return home. I order, Captain Eun Si Gyeong, to immediately return to the troop.
Reply at least when I text you.
At least he didn't raise the price.
I'll pick up after 5 rings at least.
It's worth to try at least once. Since you made it a big deal like going down to the world of the living, I thought you had some amazlingly thought out plan.
WOULD YOU MIND? I-I. SEEMS LIKE THE LEAST SHE COULD DO.
ONE DECENT SCORE WAS THE LEAST YOU COULD GIVE ME, ALL I'VE DONE FOR YOU.
Not in the least. When I thought of Musashi-sama heading into a duel from here I completely forgot anything about my own body.
Thought I might have at least one great novel in me.
You name it, I've been there at least once.
News and current affairs
The bad news is that it has become increasingly clear that, at least for large countries, currency areas will be highly unstable unless they follow national borders.
And those who, like the psychopathic Alex, need the most help are probably those who would want it least.
But that doesn't mean that it won't work, at least for a time.
Weather forecasters cannot forecast far into the future, either, but at least they have precise mathematical models.
It is too much to expect that these new fiscal institutions will become as important or powerful as central banks, at least anytime soon.
At least, that was how things were shaping up prior to the war in Iraq.
There have been two eras since World War II when policymakers - American policymakers, at least - believed that they had solved the riddle of the business cycle and had learned how to manage a modern industrial or post-industrial economy.
Or at least, to consider perhaps a quite different question: where would it be reasonable for the EU to move?
Yet the agreement commits no one to any specific targets, least of all the United States, whose president, George W. Bush, will no longer be in office in 2009, when the tough decisions have to be made.
Nevertheless, the US at least has a Pakistan policy - which is more than can be said about NATO and Europe.
Tough decisions were made, not least involving the energy sector.
Last but not least is the imperative of working with and for women and young people.
At least the Initiative pointed in the right direction.
But, at the very least, it needs to be explained why people should be prohibited from selling kidneys, but not from selling the land that grows their food.
Under these circumstances, budgetary recklessness is a virtue, at least in the short term.
TOKYO - Historic transformations often happen when least expected.
No one should rush to judgment yet, but Thein Sein's decisions, at least so far, are beginning to resemble those of South Africa's de Klerk when he initiated his country's reform process.
This is a recipe for continuing political problems, as the Greeks would always consider the interest rate too high, while Germany would consider it too low (at least relative to market rates).
That lesson should have been absorbed and understood, not least by American strategists, long before the Taliban's fall.
But, at least until now, the world has paid almost no attention to war crimes and crimes against humanity comparable in their savagery to any of these: the killing fields of Sri Lanka in 2009.
The trip is being carefully managed by both countries, and is being watched closely around the world, with good reason: Sino-Japanese relations over the past decade have been turbulent, to say the least.
Japan, whose economic recovery is attributable largely to its deepening ties with China in recent years, is also eager to demonstrate that it regards China not as a threat but as an opportunity, as least in economic terms.
The violence began in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri during a protest by Muslims against the cartoons, with the Christian Association of Nigeria reporting at least 50 Christians killed.
Reprisals were swift, and at least 50 Muslims were killed in three days of violence in the southeastern (predominantly Christian) cities of Onitsha and Enugu.
They acknowledge that Africa is bearing the brunt of the economic and climate crises, even though it was least responsible for creating them.