Example sentences of "[prep] least for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation in the USA , at least for state and local governments , is different . |
| 2 | In Joan Halton 's attempt to be more whole , she needed to know more about her desire to come first , at least for part of the time , rather than always maintaining the veneer of premature maturity she had felt forced into adopting as a child . |
| 3 | She had been content to stay in the house all day and to try to clean it ; but Mrs Aggie had told her she must go to school , at least for part of the day . |
| 4 | The result is that the majority of women are engaged at least for part of their lives in full-time domestic work , especially while their children are young . |
| 5 | With bonds , the coupon payments are contractual and known with certainty ( or at least , the promised payments on fixed interest bonds are ) , the maturity date is known with certainty ( at least for bonds with a fixed maturity date ) , the maturity value is known with certainty , and the appropriate discount rate is relatively easy to calculate , given the ease of comparability with similar bonds . |
| 6 | that at least for women this disease is more likely to occur in |
| 7 | But its heyday is over , at least for philosophers of science , and we promise that its merits will no longer be obvious by the end of the chapter . |
| 8 | The grant was voted more because Charles ended disputes over land titles running over the previous twenty years than because the West Indians believed they ought to support the English Exchequer , but a permanent colonial contribution to the home government was — at least for England — a new and interesting departure , though one that had no sequel . |
| 9 | As for England , she heard enough to doubt that there would ever be another trip there for the Brownings , or at least for Mrs Browning . |
| 10 | Its personnel are already identified by reason of their peerages which are held , subject to disclaimer , at least for life ) , and all that remains is to summon them . |
| 11 | The eventual publication of ‘ Work in Progress ’ , as Finnegans Wake in 1939 , provides a convenient date — if not for the success of the novel itself , too abstract and esoteric to sustain much attention during the war years which followed — at least for critics and literary historians . |
| 12 | A second drawback , at least for livestock farmers , is surface damage . |
| 13 | Happily , at least for Ireland , the additional points were missing and that was that — a winning start to the team 's first appearance at this , the best known of all Sevens tournaments . |
| 14 | At least for residents . |
| 15 | Keith Evans ' charge that some American school media centres actually undermined the morale of teachers ( a charge he did not , incidentally , document ) was not one which could be levelled at centres on the Madeley and Codsall model , and their influence was such that many examples existed , at least for periods of time . |
| 16 | The provost had confronted the man and had issued a warning , telling him that ‘ the process before the Judiciary at the Croun 's Instance was still hanging over his head & if he transgressed those who assisted to bring him of[f] may also get the affair moved againe , at least for £30 of expenses ’ . |
| 17 | While there was , at least for Monnet and Schuman , an altruistic motive behind the scheme , it is clear that France found the idea attractive because it offered a better way than the International Ruhr Authority of binding the new West Germany to external control while it was still relatively weak . |
| 18 | Very broadly , his conclusion is that class inequalities in education — at least for boys — have changed very little since the First World War . |
| 19 | Appeals from the mayor of St Petersburg to the Russian government for financing the work , or at least for preservation of the monument , have had no reply . |
| 20 | And so , at least for Treasury bonds , the definition of returns does matter . |
| 21 | This rather defeats the object of having an indemnity , at least for general ( tax ) liabilities , but it is a matter for negotiation who is to bear the cost of known , or feared , tax liabilities and other liabilities . |
| 22 | The amendment by an expatriate Scot , George Cunningham ( Labour , Islington ) , by ensuring that a 40 per cent vote of the electorate ( not simply of those voting ) would have to be achieved for a devolution bill to go through and for a repeal order not to be tabled , made devolution , at least for Wales , virtually an impossibility . |
| 23 | now confirm that this amazing thing does actually happen , at least for cluster ions near . |
| 24 | I expected a fanfare to greet me , or at least for Tony to fall to his knees in admiration . |
| 25 | Seen this way , the collapse of Christendom is a blessing for Christianity , and the present crisis of faith may be the best opportunity in centuries , at least for Christians in the West . |
| 26 | Camus 's L'Etranger ( 1942 ) is also marred ( at least for Robbe-Grillet ) by the unwelcome intrusion of a ‘ metaphorical ’ vocabulary in the second part of the novel : in his landmark essay ‘ Nature , Humanisme , Tragédie ’ ( 1958 ) and in Le Miroir qui revient , Robbe-Grillet had condemned this unfortunate lapse from ‘ le degré zéro de l'écriture ’ almost as a kind of betrayal of modernism , and as deficient in phenomenological terms by establishing a complicity between man and the world . |
| 27 | And the divide between the Catholic and Anglican churches was bridged — at least for investment purposes when the insurance arms of the two churches set up a joint venture , Ecclesiastical Underwriting Management , headed by the aptly named Kevin Cannon . |
| 28 | However , Mr Hassell did end on a positive note — at least for leasing , if not for other forms of business finance . |
| 29 | Now a Greek team , headed by Professor Cesar Alexopoulos , of Athens University , has developed a technique which seems to provide just that much warning — at least for earthquakes that have hit Greece repeatedly over the past two years . |
| 30 | Mixed-ability teaching was a principle fairly widely accepted , at least for children in their first year at secondary school , but in some schools for far longer . |