Sentence examples for let alone order from inspiring English sources

But even a cursory analysis of the study's methods makes you wonder why anyone would take such a finding seriously, let alone order a Quarter Pounder With Cheese to celebrate it, as many newspaper readers no doubt promptly went out and did.

Before she has time to sit down, let alone order a pot of peppermint tea, she is in full flight, regaling me with the matter of the missing invite: "I'm so upset!" Her ruby lips collapse in a frown briefly, and start up again: "It's not that I'd be, like, really upset if I didn't win an award".

Facebook's year of problems suggests that it's not woo-woo to think this way; for all its cogitation, the tech world rarely frets about second-order societal effects, let alone third-order and fourth-order.

Third-order rainbows are so difficult to see (let alone fourth-order), that in 250 years only five have ever been scientifically reported, according to LiveScience.

But that warehouse can no longer accommodate the growth in Web sales generally, let alone the orders for items like large pants and maternity clothes that the Gap sells only online.

This was no understatement: the nascent nation had just a few short paved roads for a territory about the size of France; no infrastructure; no public services to speak of; no justice system, let alone law or order.

The 1987 Beatles CDs restored the first four albums to mono, but they still sounded brittle and tinny, as if they'd have difficulty changing a lightbulb, let alone the social order of Britain.

One resident said that "future quality of care for the Brompton's patients should not be compromised, let alone imperilled, in order to facilitate the expansion of the Royal Marsden hospital".

DO appreciate that Havana operates on "Cuba time", a kick back, laissez-faire attitude which means it can take 10 minutes before a waiter shows up to your table let alone takes your order.

It may not be feasible to enumerate all possible two-order interactions in whole genomic scale with typical computational resources, let alone calculating high-order SNP interactions (e.g., three SNPs interacting together, four SNPs interacting together, etc).

It just struck me as very odd and I often wondered how 1st Lt. Duncan Smith – with that face of his so visibly playing out some horrible conflict within his soul – could convince a bunch of hard-bitten enlisted men to listen to him, let alone follow his orders.