Example sentences of "[prep] least in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A limited contract for a few sessions , at least in the first instance , is always preferable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At least in the first stage of transition , there is no alternative other than a combination of the market and state regulation . |
| 5 | That is to say , there was , at least in the first quarter of this century , no well-developed rationalist alternative to theology or a simplistic materialism to explain mental life . |
| 6 | If at all possible , answer these questions in the first sentence of the release or at least in the first paragraph . |
| 7 | They write of the purpose behind the Nottinghamshire teams as involving the explicit premise that casework and service coordination at the level of individual clients should logically take second place to the creation of more adequate service infrastructure — at least in the first instance ( Wistow and Wray , p 16 ) Developmental teams of the Notts kind , then , might be expected to place priority on establishing a range of new services , " accommodation services , adult placement schemes , family support services , play schemes , parent groups and Further Education courses " ( Wray and Wistow , op cit ) . |
| 8 | Soviet forces were not , at least in the first instance , to be withdrawn unconditionally . |
| 9 | Given that , at least in the first year of the new council tax , there will still be two-tier authorities in the shires , I hope that the Bill will be as tight as a drum to ensure that the tiered authorities that are not up for election do not use that freedom from the ballot box — as happened in Nottinghamshire with the poll tax — to wreck the council tax in the way that they wrecked the poll tax in its first year . |
| 10 | But is n't there a sense in which people in other countries really have to help themselves , at least in the first instance ? |