Example sentences of "[prep] least [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The plates at least for the first four courses are washed as they come out of the dining room . ’ |
| 2 | Consequently , they are best advised at least for the first two years of recovery to concentrate primarily on just the one relevant Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The imaginary war , at least for the first 20 years after the war , reproduced the solutions of the second world war . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |