Example sentences of "[prep] least [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should not happen for at least a million years … but there is an outside chance that it could happen tomorrow . ) |
| 2 | Mankind had , after all , turned from hunting to farming as a way of life at least a thousand years before this date , by which time both goats and sheep were already domesticated . |
| 3 | ‘ Lee , nobody who has n't known you for at least a hundred years is going to appreciate oblique and esoteric … ’ |
| 4 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 5 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 6 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 7 | Do n't you realise it 's taken at least a hundred years for that to grow ? |
| 8 | These atoms , as we have seen , are spewed out from dying stars ; but it would take at least a billion years for a star to use up all its helium energy and explode , hence life could not exist in a universe consisting of the shortest-living stars , since the necessary elements such as carbon would not exist . |
| 9 | Both pictured a glamorous brunette , at least a dozen years older than herself . |
| 10 | In the event , for at least a few years to come , no such necessity arose . |
| 11 | We slide the photo quickly into the tray of fixer to secure that clear , vulnerable moment , to make the image harder , unchippable , solid for at least a few years . |
| 12 | The contains no explicit stipulation that the muderris should also act as mufti of Manisa — or , alternatively , that the mufti of Manisa should act as muderris — but it would appear that by at least a few years before 944/1537–8 , if not earlier , such had become the practice . " |
| 13 | Association in the Olympics would automatically clean up rugby 's image ( at least at the top level ) , and would markedly increase the coverage of the sport — at least every four years . |
| 14 | Health care workers should have a tuberculin skin test at least every two years . |
| 15 | The national screening programme will enable all women between the ages of 20 and 64 to be tested at least every five years you should have received your invitation for screening by 1993 . |
| 16 | The national screening programme will enable all women between the ages of 20 and 64 to be tested at least every five years ( you should have received your invitation for screening by 1993 ) . |
| 17 | The JMU aims to visit firms in categories 2 , 3 and 4 every two years and those in category 1 at least every five years . |
| 18 | Everybody has a boss , a person who has the responsibility to oversee his or her work ; the Chairperson of the Board has the company 's shareholders while the Prime Minister has to face the electorate for a renewal of the mandate at least every five years . |
| 19 | In Britain elections to the House of Commons , from which the government is formed , must be held at least every five years ( until Parliament says otherwise ) but may be held at any time during the five years , for example there were only eight months between elections in 1974 and the average length of a parliament is around four years . |
| 20 | For example , a general election for the House of Commons must be held at least every 5 years but only certain people have access to the vote and not all votes for different parties are of equal power in the absence of proportional representation making for a close correspondence between votes cast and seats won ; the House of Lords ( once a very powerful state institution ) can now only delay bills passed by the House of Commons ; the Prime Minister " must " come from the Commons ; and it is " expected " that a government will resign and call a general election if it is defeated in a vote of confidence on the floor of the House of Commons . |
| 21 | All adults enjoy the right to vote in free general elections that must be held at least every 5 years . |
| 22 | He saw the whole machinery of government as keenly attuned to public opinion because the character of the government depended on the results of the last general election ; because there must be an election at least every 5 years ; and because the electors had a genuinely free choice between candidates putting forward different policies . |
| 23 | The second proposes that firms should be required to change audit partners at least every seven years for listed and other public interest companies . |
| 24 | There would be limits on political campaigning and ballots at least every three years on membership of the National Union of Students . |
| 25 | There would be limits on political campaigning and ballots would be held at least every three years on membership of the National Union of Students . |
| 26 | It is also expected to lead to student transfers between the two centres , distance learning through new technologies and Kirkcaldy running franchised courses for at least the early years of Dundee 's courses . |
| 27 | From at least the closing years of the eighteenth century the decline of gentry involvement and even tolerance of plebeian sports was evident . |
| 28 | The future is too precious , at least the three years of European and world championships ending in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 , his fifth Games . |