Example sentences of "at [adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | DOWNPATRICK races will start later than usual next Wednesday — at 4.00pm with the last race at 6.30pm . |
2 | A goalkeeper does not ‘ perform ’ his function in its theatrical sense , only in the sociological usage of ‘ perform ’ which we shall be looking at further in the next chapter . |
3 | Moreover , at least since the nineteenth century there has been a spillover into the State schools of the ethos of the independent boarding schools , the purpose of which was understood to be as much moral as academic , with character-training high on the agenda . |
4 | In the UK , theories openly based on natural law have exerted little influence , at least since the nineteenth century . |
5 | A completely contrasting interpretation of history is represented by MacFarlane 's ( 1978 ) work on the origins of English individualism , where he argues that the structure of kinship which prioritizes the nuclear family and de-emphasizes other kin has been characteristic of England at least since the thirteenth century . |
6 | Massalia had been in direct contact with the Celts at least since the fifth century B.C. The Jews lived in a region where Greek mercenaries were often stationed and Greek merchants often called . |
7 | The attempt to minimise industrial conflict has been a goal of public policy in Britain at least since the last century when the Conciliation Act of 1896 was passed . |
8 | It was anticipated , however , that at least during the first stage Gorbachev would make extensive use of emergency powers , granted to him in September , to introduce reforms by presidential decree . |
9 | Although , USL claims to have improved DCE 's quality , it says that OEMs will look at DCE/SVR4 as a build-or-buy decision , not as a functional value-add , at least with the first release . |
10 | For some sections of the labour force , prosperous years which had begun in the 1780s continued at least for the first part of the war . |
11 | My arrival put paid to her travels — at least for the first couple of years . ’ |
12 | Between 1713 and 1763 they paid little attention to the colonies in America , and at least for the first half of the period it was hard to see what else could have been done . |
13 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
14 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
15 | At least for the first year ( 1st April 1993–31st March 1994 ) , the vast majority of residential care places in voluntary and private sector residential and nursing homes , and registered supported accommodation , will be purchased on an individual place-by-place basis for each user . |
16 | For your own good , at least for the next year or so , I think you 'd be best out of the way . |
17 | She may even concede that hospitalisation is best , at least for the last trimester . |
18 | However , it is probably preferable to send a copy of the terms with the document which refers to them , at least on the first occasion that the parties do business . |
19 | The main problem , at least on the first night , was that too much of the dialogue was overplayed — Lochhead recognises that you do n't need to soup up the Scots speech to make it funny , or poignant or significant : it 's all already there in the words , but if they 're spoken too self-consciously they end up sounding like rather forced one-liners . |
20 | Cedric Thornberry , his civilian representative in ex-Yugoslavia , had some good news , at least on the first score . |
21 | An alternative usage , which goes back at least to the seventeenth century , made " family " a widely dispersed group of relatives , loosely linked by ties of " blood " and affinity , but not necessarily associated with any one household . |
22 | The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century . |
23 | He was an effortless survival of the 1930s , where fiction had abounded in well-meaning young men who had striven to Do the Right Thing and come to grief , at least till the last page of the story . |
24 | Moreover , so far as can be seen a Northumbrian hegemony continued to prevail between the Humber and the Forth and across to the west , above and below the Solway from the Mersey to the borders of Strathclyde , at least until the mid-eighth century . |
25 | If the text is accurate , it would seem to indicate that the three kadiliks of Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne were all originally registered as 300-akce kadiliks and that their registration had not been changed by Hezarfen 's time , although all three outranked Damascus and Aleppo at least until the eighteenth century . |
26 | Then , just as I 'd half a mind to twiddle with the radio in case Marlene Dietrich was still on , there would be another lurch of the Tardis-like mood and I 'd come upon a garishly-lit motel , freshly shipped across from the West , or else be smartly overtaken by a monstrous new Mercedes doing 200 kph or more with effortless abandon , at least until the next plunge into potholes and waterlogged scree . |
27 | It only remained for Terence Higgins ( Worthing ) to wrap up Serpell in moth balls , where it will remain until at least after the next election |
28 | It is hoped that Customs will keep to their original pledge of applying the rules sympathetically at least within the first year , and waive any penalties where it is clear that the taxpayer has done his best to comply . |
29 | Might such considerations explain Mrs Thatcher 's reluctance to join the system , at least before the next election ? |
30 | Pam was there from the beginning , or at least from the first day of school . |