Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] at least the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surgery will rule out the Blackburn and England striker for at least the rest of this season , and the Blackburn manager , Kenny Dalglish , promised the player will not be rushed into a return . |
| 2 | The contributions that were to be offered with the study of process may be surveyed from the viewpoint of soil science and the biogeographer , from that of the climatologist and the geomorphologist and then from the field of hydrology which to some extent provided a new focus of interest for physical geographers and one that proffered a link between at least the geomorphic and climatic aspects of physical environment . |
| 3 | These rodents have the double misfortune of being regarded as edible — both the Hopi and Navajo Indians have recipes for baked prairie dog — and as agricultural pest , subject to a hunting and poisoning programme for at least the past 150 years . |
| 4 | In Freud 's terms , this becomes a joke when both teller and listener , writer and reader , share an appreciation of at least the potential value of that sexuality . |
| 5 | Make a full-size drawing of at least the bracket . |
| 6 | Full realisation of the meaning of the partial divergence in styles of appeal between parliament and country requires recognition of at least the limited equation of ‘ enthusiasm ’ with popular opinion . |
| 7 | The development of the national curriculum will do a great deal to stimulate more interest in science because more pupils will have to sustain well-judged scientific programmes of study until at least the age of 16 . |
| 8 | We also feel that the number of Scottish members of CTC warrants a grant of at least the £600 we got before . |
| 9 | In view of the deeply felt resentment at the reign of Bayezid I on the part of at least the more pious elements of the state , it seems not impossible that Murad II ( 1421–51 ) who , alter Mehmed I ( 1413–21 ) , set about re-establishing the integrity and order of the Ottoman state , decided to provide an answer to the critics of the secular state by the creation of an office to represent the spiritual authority of the seriat , an office , moreover , free from the taint that had come to affect the members of the ulema associated with the state service . |
| 10 | Firefighters expect to stay at the scene for at least the rest of the day — the strain of working amoung the debris under which two of their friends died shows only too clear to see . |
| 11 | In Strabane , Co Londonderry , more than six out of ten people have been out of work for at least the last year . |
| 12 | The poor or null stabilizing effect of GpU indicated that , as it had been shown for the E.coli rrnB P 1 promoter ( 8 ) , the appearance of a complex stable to heparin challenge requires the formation of at least the first phosphodiester bond . |
| 13 | But we need to have a degree of common ownership of at least the broad parameters of what the world may look like , and we then seek the whole time to simplify down and down and down . |
| 14 | In 1974 military engineers stood by to operate power stations in Northern Ireland during the protest strike by the Protestant Ulster Workers ' Council , though they could have done nothing without the help of at least the power station managers . |
| 15 | If one may accept the equivalence of at least the concepts underlying the terms and on the one hand and and on the other , there is thus some solid evidence , in addition to the line of reasoning advanced above , to suggest that the concept of a division between " the interior " and " the exterior " existed at least from fairly early on in the sixteenth century ; and it is not unreasonable to suppose that the terms haric and dahil are not anachronistic in respect of the Kanunname . |
| 16 | But then , either Hobbes has failed to distinguish the child from at least the higher and domesticated animals or the force of ‘ intelligently ’ must be explained in such a way as to exclude animals . |
| 17 | In any case , ministerial training continues on a less formal and standardised basis for at least the first three years after ordination , in the context of one or more curacies . |
| 18 | This has not in itself created a culture and ideology of consumerism ; for these have been in place for at least the last century and perhaps longer in the First World and among comprador classes elsewhere . |
| 19 | And to the east there are vast reserves of coal to supply fuel for at least the next 200 years . |
| 20 | Without a specific perpetuity period of at least the length of the term ( if the term exceeds 21 years ) plus a few additional years to cover holding over under the 1954 Act , there would be no right to use pipes placed under the premises during the 23rd year of the term . |
| 21 | There has been a mill on or near this site from at least the early 14th century , when it belonged to the Earl of Gloucester 's Manor . |
| 22 | The small , hot and compact companion of Sirius was discovered in 1915 — the first real investigation of the Dogon did not take place until at least the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 23 | Although industrialization has tended to eliminate traditional crafts , the non-agricultural element of the rural economy has increased in importance since at least the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | The relief organisations are now preparing to house and feed a constant population of well over a hundred thousand every day for at least the next three months . |
| 25 | It is clear that LRT is planning regular increases above the rate of inflation for at least the next five years . |
| 26 | The marks of a corporation are : perpetual succession , i.e. the death or withdrawal of members , or the addition of new members from time to time , does not impair the continuity and identity of the body : ‘ in like manner ’ , as Blackstone says , ‘ the river Thames is still the same river , though the parts which comprise it are changing every instant' ; the use of a common seal as evidence of at least the more formal acts of the corporation ; and the capacity to sue and be sued by its corporate name . |
| 27 | We have evidence from at least the seventeenth century of restraint of births , and there is clear evidence of a planned decline of working-class family size from the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | Only give these drinks with meals and dilute the juice by AT LEAST the same amount of water . |
| 29 | In 1826 she was joined by her sisters-in-law , Sarah and Ann , who had just lost their mother ; the poor relief ‘ Extras ’ list granted them 1s. or 18d. a week for at least the next three years . |
| 30 | In August 1945 the Leaders asked the Superintendent , the Reverend Ernest Shaw , to allow the Reverend Thomas Kennedy to concentrate on visitation in the Edenderry district for at least the following 12 months in view of the probable building of a new church and the need for special attention to the work of God in the area . |