Example sentences of "at [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a day or two ago in The Times , a high academic figure was complaining that ‘ the nature of the demand for education , at least over the next few years , seems unlikely to correspond with any precision to the national need for more scientists and technologists ’ . |
| 2 | Craft workers are likely to be in increased demand , at least over the next several years , to carry out maintenance on advanced equipment such as CNC machine tools and robots , though craft work is likely to change its context . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The plates at least for the first four courses are washed as they come out of the dining room . ’ |
| 6 | Consequently , they are best advised at least for the first two years of recovery to concentrate primarily on just the one relevant Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 7 | Only a few , largely of the younger members , consider that at least for the first few years after an election , the House as a whole should keep a wary eye on the government and seek to support or influence its policy irrespective of the line taken by the official Opposition . |
| 8 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
| 9 | The imaginary war , at least for the first 20 years after the war , reproduced the solutions of the second world war . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | By comparison , the risks of ‘ doing nothing ’ , at least for the next three or four years , are less acute . |
| 14 | ‘ Roger , Roger , ’ he whispered , ‘ I am the Cardinal 's man in peace and war , at least for the next ten years . |
| 15 | This further increased its authority and enabled it to keep control over events , at least for the next few months . |
| 16 | At least for the next few days , allow yourself to be more impulsive . |
| 17 | Prices for Vines 5.50 , which includes StreetTalk , remain unchanged , at least for the next few months . |
| 18 | the farmers will hope it holds off at least for the next few weeks . |
| 19 | Serious economic reform seems blocked , at least until the next presidential election , due in 1992 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |