not in the least
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The chair of the Police Federation of Northern Ireland, Liam Kelly, said the latest figures were "not in the least bit surprising".
From BBC • May 24, 2025
I will refrain from stating exactly how long it had been since I, personally, had made a Cranberry Chiffon Pie before this past Thanksgiving — but I was not concerned, not in the least.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2024
Things have gotten better since then, not in the least because the studio Field got her first full-time job at in 2012 was sold in 2016, and she and her co-worker, Ed Brooks, bought it.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2022
Her mice, which became the subjects of poetry she wrote in her free time, were not in the least monstrous, she found, and provided fundamental insight into the understanding of genetics and, in time, cancer.
From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2022
He looks stable enough and not in the least like a vomiter.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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