at the very outside

They want him in and out within a month at the very outside.

"You have enough for five days - six at the very outside."

I'd have given him three days, at the very outside."

At the very outside, relief can't be more than two weeks away.

He's gonna walk the Mile in a month, six weeks at the very outside.

"Two, maybe three minutes, at the very outside."

Our most pessimistic experts foresee perhaps five years of Romulan conflict at the very outside."

'Well, nine-thirty at the very outside,' she said.

"At the very outside, manslaughter.

"Fifteen to twenty thousand francs dowry at the very outside, sire; the lovers are disinterested enough; for myself, I care little for money."

Another nasty shock, specially for Kari and me who understood the implications: just two small barrels of malt, enough for two weeks' beer at the very outside.

He knew there were likely no more than five hundred - six hundred at the very outside - but to him it looked like a multitude, and their taut silence was unnerving.

It means that every man, woman, and child over the age, let us say, of twenty-one or thirty, at the very outside, should never do anything extremely important or crucial in their life without consulting a list of persons in the world, living or dead, whom he loves.

Of course, a man can take little spare clothing on a round-up; at the very outside two or three clean handkerchiefs, a pair of socks, a change of underclothes, and the most primitive kind of washing-apparatus, all wrapped up in a stout jacket which is to be worn when night-herding.

At the time of the Poll Tax of 1379 it appears not to have exceeded three hundred persons at the very outside; it was certainly one of the smallest towns in Yorkshire, such places as Snaith, Ripon, Tickhill, and Selby exceeding it in importance.