Example sentences of "at [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 2 | Part at least of the next ten years was evidently spent in the Newfoundland fishing trade , as he developed a specialist knowledge of the waters round that island . |
| 3 | ‘ The plates at least for the first four courses are washed as they come out of the dining room . ’ |
| 4 | Consequently , they are best advised at least for the first two years of recovery to concentrate primarily on just the one relevant Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 5 | The imaginary war , at least for the first 20 years after the war , reproduced the solutions of the second world war . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm here , ’ Robbie snapped , side-stepping him and moving further into the galley , ‘ because I 'm going to live here — at least for the next six months . ’ |
| 7 | SHIPPING giant ACL today pledged to stick with Liverpool at least for the next four years after a new contract was hammered out between the Swedish-owned company and Mersey Docks and Harbour Company . |
| 8 | However , the scientists say they believed the layer would continue to thin every winter at least for the next eight years , after which a ban on use of certain gases will start to have a beneficial effect . |
| 9 | By comparison , the risks of ‘ doing nothing ’ , at least for the next three or four years , are less acute . |
| 10 | ‘ Roger , Roger , ’ he whispered , ‘ I am the Cardinal 's man in peace and war , at least for the next ten years . |
| 11 | Yet at least in the first two decades of this major shift in political life , faction was based on commitments other than the purely personal . |
| 12 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |