Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] at least the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europe 's hotel industry is on the bumpy road to re-establishing its pre-Gulf War position but full recovery is not expected until at least the end of 1991 , according to a report from analyst Salomon Brothers . |
| 2 | Records of membership , subscriptions and payments had to be kept , and at times of dispute , petitions and other statements of grievances were drawn up and presented from at least the beginning of the eigh-teenth century . |
| 3 | A marked contrast in behaviour would be expected during continental collision between the very thick crust of the Andes , where relatively rapid subduction has occurred throughout at least the Cenozoic , and the Alpine region where the closure of the ocean separating North Africa and southern Europe has been more gradual . |
| 4 | The ban followed the Chernobyl accident , and was expected to last until at least the end of the century . |
| 5 | Many health policies in Third World countries are based on at least the vocabulary of this approach though the political climate does not always encourage such radical rethinking of health care nor does the training of most health workers prepare them to work in the new ways implied in the PHC philosophy . |
| 6 | The subcommittee said it was a matter of urgency to ensure the catch was reduced to at least the levels of previous years ( which themselves had possibly been too high ) . ’ |
| 7 | Initial deliveries are expected to go to at least the other announced PowerPC allies , Groupe Bull SA , Thomson-CSF , Harris Corp and Tadpole Technology plc , with Apple taking the lion 's share . |
| 8 | Grand Metropolitan and Rank , for instance , have wide ranging manufacturing and property interests , though the others tend to be associated with at least the provision of leisure-based products in their diversified activities . |
| 9 | In other words , the original Sadducees would have been a devout dynastic priesthood closely associated with at least the principle of an expected Davidic Messiah . |
| 10 | The travellers say they plan to stay until at least the weekend . |
| 11 | Certainly there are many who would concur with at least the gist of Lieberson 's , and others ' , criticisms but argue that more effort should be directed at improving methods of data collection and analysis to meet these kinds of objections . |
| 12 | Ideas of identity and insider integrity in the late 1980s are sustained by the same symbols of status and denigration which have existed since at least the mid-1950s . |