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Let alone.
This is used to emphasise how extreme something could be: 'We hadn't got the money to phone home, let alone stay in a hotel.' This emphasises the utter impossibility of staying in a hotel.
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Indeed, witnesses' testimony is notoriously unreliable only hours after an event, let alone years later.
It is difficult to foresee what will happen in the laboratory this afternoon let alone years from now.
A photograph may not resemble a person immediately after it's taken, let alone years after the fact, even though it is still a photograph of that person.
A gap of months, let alone years, can leave you feeling that technology has left you and your years of experience behind.
But remembering is a leisure reserved for elephants and print … on Twitter everything is so quick, it's hard to remember what happened last week, let alone years ago.
Left and extreme right now secure equal space as contributors to the national conversation about multiculturalism, but neither can supply answers as to how France will hold together in the next few months, let alone years.
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"Maybe they will attract enough private sponsors for the first year, but will all these people stump up money for the second year – let alone year 20 or 50?
But we've never had a period of three months in a row where we've done that, let alone two years, three years, four years.
Few technologies survive more than five years — let alone 30 years — without significant change.
I never thought when I began doing television shows that I'd be on for another year, let alone 55 years.
I am not the man I was 2 years ago let alone 14 years ago.
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