Example sentences of "at [adv] [prep] [art] [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 The implications are depressingly apparent in a study by Roberta Steinbacher and Helen B. Holmes which shows that young North American men and women who consider themselves sensitive to female inequality , would still choose to have male babies , at least as a first choice if sex-predetermination or sex determination with IVF would allow prospective parents in Western countries the opportunity to choose a preferred sex without the stigma that would be attached to using selective abortion .
22 In fact these can legitimately be regarded as fluorine ‘ lone pair ’ orbitals quite distinct from the bonding , non-bonding and anti-bonding MOs which are analogous to those found for H 2 O. Similarly , presents us with yet another increase in complexity , but the additional orbitals can be regarded , at least to a first approximation , as ‘ CF 3 group ’ orbitals associated with CF bonding or with F atom lone pairs , again superimposed on a basic set of ‘ skeletal ’ MOs analogous to those found for H 2 O.
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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
30 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 .
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