Example sentences of "at least [prep] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least for the moment , the Conservative government has wrecked its popularity by pursuing misconceived projects such as the poll tax . |
| 2 | Israel 's decision not to respond , at least for the moment , makes perfect sense . |
| 3 | Yet the German foreign ministry has merely tut-tutted and the defence minister , Gerhard Stoltenberg , has called off the peeking , at least for the moment . |
| 4 | House-to-house searches have ceased , at least for the moment , but the arrests continue . |
| 5 | The more important enemies had , at least for the moment , been defeated . |
| 6 | A young couple may have to shelve plans to have a baby , at least for the moment . |
| 7 | Sources close to the couple said yesterday 's admission of the problems coupled with the pact meant that they would not separate — at least for the moment . |
| 8 | But such is the way of life and the pressing business of climbing all 277 Munros that the Corbetts tend to be ignored , at least for the moment . |
| 9 | It remains true , however , that we do not now have the means to deploy this approach wholeheartedly , so that anyone who insists on its universal applicability must be taken , at least for the moment , to be committing an act of faith . |
| 10 | One final point before we leave witchcraft — at least for the moment . |
| 11 | At least for the moment , Scapula was able to concentrate his forces on the western frontier , which now extended to the Wye and the Severn . |
| 12 | His luck was in , at least for the moment , but he had already decided not to tempt fate again . |
| 13 | Where do we locate political behaviour in what is at least for the moment a mass democracy ? |
| 14 | He and the Doctor were , at least for the moment , on opposing sides . |
| 15 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 16 | Thankfully , the storm had abated , at least for the moment , and the eight twelves had emerged from the shelter of their dull grey carriage . |
| 17 | The flicker seems to be dormant , at least for the moment . ’ |
| 18 | I thanked him in my head for so thoroughly putting paid to the past , at least for the moment . |
| 19 | However , we see the thesis as overambitious since it only holds for certain groups and issues and for a particular period of British politics — and that period , may have passed at least for the moment . |
| 20 | Instead , at least for the moment , new salary structure , pay levels , and conditions of service are decided by the Secretary of State . |
| 21 | At least for the moment . |
| 22 | The posting to Bahrein was cancelled , and I was to stay on in London , at least for the moment . |
| 23 | ‘ As for moving into a chalet , I 'm prepared to forget it — at least for the moment . |
| 24 | If we take a narrow interpretation at least for the moment of strategic means it helps decide where it should go . |
| 25 | But Downes , at least for the moment , had taken the initiative . |