Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] at [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The locations of the recent Kalimantan outbreaks suggest that some may have been rekindled from underground smoulderings dating from at least the mid-80s . |
| 3 | Representatives came from at least the following states : Uttar Pradesh , Andhra Pradesh , Panjab , Gujarat , Kerala , Assam , Maharashtra , Mysore , Rajasthan . |
| 4 | The historical year , now in general use in England for all everyday purposes and many official and ecclesiastical , begins on 1 January , and thus coincides with the Roman civil year which was widely used until at least the seventh century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The absence of any accepted divorce procedures , for instance , was probably one of the reasons for the rituals of ‘ wife sales ’ in the nineteenth century , continuing until at least the 1880s . |
| 7 | This fashion of dimidiation was abandoned by at least the late fourteenth century and replaced by the style of compressing each set of armorial bearings onto one half of the shield — the husband 's being placed on the dexter and the wife 's on the sinister . |
| 8 | Each time the oil was replenished to at least the original amount . |
| 9 | But there was still a estimated overspend of at least the same amount this year , on top of a deficit of £38 million last year , said BBC spokesman Will Wyatt . |
| 10 | The idea that there was a golden age of family obligations in the past was born out of a desire to ensure that increasing numbers of elderly people ( and other dependent groups ) in the population did not become too heavy a burden financially upon the wealthier classes ; hence the anxieties about whether working-class people had an adequate sense of ‘ filial affection ’ , which can be documented from at least the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | He sees relational and object models co-existing for at least the next 30 years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And ITN 's position as monopoly supplier of news to the Channel 3 stations ( current or future ) is assured for at least the next five , and probably 10 , years . |
| 14 | Outside Parliament , an all-party Children 's Minimum Campaign Committee had been formed in 1934 ‘ to ensure that no child shall by reason of the poverty of its parents be deprived of at least the minimum food and other requirements for full health ’ . |
| 15 | Consumption of the Nazca Plate along the nascent Peru-Chile Trench had begun by at least the Late Triassic — Early Jurassic and marked the conversion of the previously ‘ passive ’ continental margin ( see Chapter 4 ) of western South America to an active convergent plate boundary ( Fig. 3.13 ( A ) and ( B ) ) . |
| 16 | At some point they were worked by Samuel Yeats , who remained until at least the mid-1780s . |
| 17 | ( c. 1235–1296 ) , judge , was probably born in or before 1235 in Shropshire , perhaps at Hopton Castle , which his family had held since at least the mid-twelfth century as major knightly tenants of the honour of Clun . |
| 18 | By the year 2020 the number is expected to rise by at least the same amount to reach nearly 100 million over-60s in the 12 member states . |