Example sentences of "for at least the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Further , the fact that there has been such a steep rise in the number of divorces , combined with a fairly high rate of remarriage , means that a rising proportion of all marriages are of people marrying for at least the second time . |
| 3 | It is also expected to lead to student transfers between the two centres , distance learning through new technologies and Kirkcaldy running franchised courses for at least the early years of Dundee 's courses . |
| 4 | It appears that Vicini will recall Donadoni ( back from injury ) for at least the first half at Wembley . |
| 5 | For known diabetics the blood glucose can be rechecked four-hourly for at least the first 48 hours . |
| 6 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
| 7 | Do not give the child eggs , fish , chocolate , wheat , oranges , peanuts or other nuts for at least the first six months , and preferably for the first year of life . |
| 8 | The sail effect of wind on the top foliage therefore concentrates stress at the top tie and in the vulnerable buds , which will be weak anyway for at least the first year or two . |
| 9 | Biological anthropology in the present context considers infants and their care within an evolutionary perspective , arguing that over the millions of years it has taken for humans to evolve , infant-parent contact was likely to have been virtually constant for at least the first year of life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Therefore for at least the first year of Council Tax I have included a separate section to deal exclusively with Poll Tax residue issues , although in practice many of these posts will need to be filled by temporary secondments back from Council Tax structures , staff unsuccessful in obtaining permanent positions initially within the Council Tax structure and temporary staff . |
| 12 | Evacuation , and the revelations associated with it , ‘ dominated social policy for at least the first nine months of the war ’ and ‘ aroused the conscience of the nation ’ , leading to a much wider debate on the condition of the people . |
| 13 | At the moment , we 've got , Devon County Council 's Recycling Working Party who are very likely to be paying our site 's rental charges , for at least the first year to get us off the ground . |
| 14 | However , a steady increase in new cases among heterosexuals would carry on for at least the medium term . |
| 15 | Try the following dietary changes for at least the two weeks before your period . |
| 16 | Britain had governed Hong Kong for at least the past 25 years only because China allowed it . |
| 17 | We scrupulously check references for at least the past five years working . |
| 18 | The Australian tobacco industry has been on the very sick list for at least the past 16 years , with adult per capita consumption falling by about one third to its present annual level of 1827 grams . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The elections in the Baltic republics , unlike in the rest of the Soviet Union , were held on a genuinely multiparty basis , constitutionally guaranteed Communist Party ( CP ) monopolies having been abolished in the past three months and new parties having been allowed to form for at least the past year . |
| 21 | The endorsement our society gives to an ideal of thinness for young women is likely to be responsible for the current high frequency of the illness , but other factors must also be involved since anorexic patients have been reported for at least the past 150 years . |
| 22 | Although , as discussed in Chapter 4 , most search consultants encounter difficulties in attracting candidates on behalf of clients who insist on remaining anonymous for at least the initial stages of the search , many clients see this as a real plus in using headhunters in the first place . |
| 23 | That state schools should teach by the oral method , but that a child found incapable of learning lipreading and speech after being taught these subjects for at least the initial year should , with the consent of the parents , be removed from the oral department of the school and , subject to strict segregation , be taught on the sign and manual system elsewhere . |
| 24 | So , for at least the fourth time , he told the mortal untruth . |
| 25 | It had been relatively constant for at least the previous three centuries as shown by the work of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure ( Laslett and Wall , 1972 ) . |
| 26 | Abstinence for at least the previous 12 months . |
| 27 | Providing you continue to pay your monthly premiums — which wo n't increase , incidentally — you 'll remain covered for the rest of your life for at least the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit . |
| 28 | BARB 's research shows that the average individual watches around three and a half hours of television per day ( and has done so for at least the last 10 years ) , just over half of this being ITV . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Discussion of issues surrounding electronic records is not novel ; archivists have been concerned with them for at least the last three decades . |