Example sentences of "at [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a session lasting until one in the morning they had discussed Crime in Society with that lucidity which is only achieved at somewhere above the 100 mg per cent level of blood alcohol and with the comforting knowledge that one does n't have to drive home . |
| 2 | By good fortune , however , another visitor arrived ; it was Willis , who took charge at once of the two girls . |
| 3 | The fact that shareholders are no longer also running the firms they own has been chewed over at least since the 1930s . |
| 4 | In Britain the other terms referred to by Miller , ‘ society ’ and ‘ culture ’ , have been familiar at least since the 1950s , which saw the early work of Hoggart and Williams and the cultural climate of the New Left , which in turn drew on Scrutiny and the Victorian debates on the Condition of England . |
| 5 | In summary , from the viewpoint of producing a healthy generation of descendants , men reach the peak , at least under the 1982 conditions in Hungary , somewhat later than women , in the paternal age group 25–29 years . |
| 6 | But in Beijing on March 25th , as he plodded through a three-hour speech at the opening session of China 's annual parliament , the National People 's Congress , some at least of the 3,000 delegates must have felt a twinge of sympathy . |
| 7 | But how will first-past-the-post voting come to be superseded , Not , we may regrettably foresee , because one at least of the two big parties has belatedly recognized that PR is a fundamental principle of true democracy . |
| 8 | I do n't think that anyone could contemplate a retrospective of Matisse without the involvement at least of the four central institutions which are collaborating on our exhibition : the two Russian museums ; Paris and ourselves . |
| 9 | These emissaries often bore gifts as well as eloquent words : since at least the early thirteenth century royal pensions were granted to promising or influential cardinalsto eighteen at least of the seventy-two who there were between 1305 and 1334 , to six alone in 1309 when the royal mission secured papal backing for Gaveston 's recall . |
| 10 | The professor shall lecture , or hold classes , in two at least of the three university terms and shall give at least thirty-six lectures or classes in all and not less than twelve in each of two terms , of which not less than sixteen must be lectures . |
| 11 | The professor shall lecture , or hold classes , in two at least of the three university terms and shall give at least twenty-eight lectures or classes in all and not less than twelve in each of two terms . |
| 12 | ‘ I said , at least with the two of us — ’ |
| 13 | We conclude that the heterodimeric MHC-encoded transporter is alone sufficient for MHC class I-mediated antigen presentation , at least for the two antigens tested here . |
| 14 | The report , Targets for Coastal Habitat Re-creation , analyses the rate of future loss by type of habitat and by county , and sets out targets for the creation of new habitats to meet English Nature 's objective of maintaining coastal habitats and features , at least at the 1992 level . |
| 15 | It would need to look at least at the two following decades . |
| 16 | The idea itself went back at least to the 1850s when such boards had been set up in shipbuilding on the Wear and for the silk trade in Macclesfield . |
| 17 | It is above all in the general success of their rulers in improving the position of the monarchy that the history of Spain and the Habsburg lands differs , at least until the 1780s , from that of France . |
| 18 | The pattern is in fact more complex than can be schematized in any one model of development ( Marshall , 1987 ) ; some regions like the Midlands repeatedly found replacement industries at least until the 1966–81 downswing . |
| 19 | At least until the 1970s , the Plenderwald forests were West Germany 's traditional playground , more important to the citizens of the Federal Republic for weekending or walking holidays than Britain 's New Forest or the South Downs , with a greater role in the national heritage of myth , folklore and literature than the Lake District to the English or the Great Glen to the Scots . |
| 20 | There are no certainties in the field of demography , but on the assumption that present mortality rates at all ages will not worsen , we can be fairly certain about the absolute numbers of men and women over the present statutory retirement pension age ( 60 for women and 65 for men ) well into the twenty-first century — at least until the 2040s — because all of them are already born . |
| 21 | McKeown and his colleagues blame the general hospitals for killing their patients more often than relieving them , at least until the 1875 public Health Act . |
| 22 | By comparison with other intermediaries growth has been slow , at least until the 1980s when the value of investment trusts ' assets almost doubled ( 1981–86 ) . |
| 23 | It was in his interests that his father should live at least until the seven years were up . ’ |
| 24 | The extent to which the Crown could control the composition of Parliament was , however , habitually exaggerated by contemporaries , at least from the 1760s onwards . |
| 25 | The battle of politics and ideas which focuses on the inner city represents a conflict between sets of interests and values which have a long history , dating at least from the 1830s and the New Poor Law of 1834 . |
| 26 | It was only with the American-led development from the 1900s of geriatric medicine as a new specialty , followed in the interwar years by self-help books and clubs encouraging older people to keep fit , travel , keep working , and — at least from the 1950s — stay sexually active , that informed European opinion began once more to swing towards a positive view of ageing . |
| 27 | The evidence shows that firms took notice of the plan , at least by the 1960s . |
| 28 | It is also true that the religious practice of those who attend vocational schools has been significantly inferior to those who attended catholic secondary schools , at least in the 1970s ( Nic Ghiolla Phadraig 1980 ) . |
| 29 | In some districts at least in the 1760s and 1770s , jenny spinners could earn as much as many weavers . |
| 30 | Telecommunications represented , at least in the 1980S , the major example of a traditional state monopoly which , faced with the possibility of external competition , succeeded in defending , even consolidating , both national dominance and European control . |