Example sentences of "[prep] least the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 2 | Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking . |
| 3 | Above all , it was the Greek conception of democracy which held sway until at least the time of Rousseau and The Social Contract . |
| 4 | It has been one of the cliches of modern liberalism , since at least the time of de Tocqueville and the younger Mill , to dwell on the possible , even probable , disjunction between democracy and liberty , to stress the fact that popular rule does not necessarily imply personal freedom , and to conjure up the spectacle of the " tyranny of the majority " . |
| 5 | And yet , since at least the time of Hegel and Marx , we have been increasingly aware that , as Enzensberger 's paraphrase of Marx has it , " What is going on in our minds has always been , and will always be a product of society " . |
| 6 | Low-growing , almost mat-like , with white daisy flowers in summer , chamomile dates back to at least the time of the ancient Egyptians who are said to have used it for curing ague . |
| 7 | The kings of the Mercians until at least the time of Ceolwulf ( 821–3 ) claimed descent from either Penda or one of his brothers ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 8 | But on the near horizon , immediately beyond Foston 's sheep pastures , stands Wigston Magna , the most populous village in Leicestershire since at least the time of the great Domesday Survey and a world apart from Squire Faunt and his shepherds . |
| 9 | Thus Everton , a modest sized village since at least the time of Domesday Book , lost its separate identity during the middle decades of the nineteenth century and became a working-class quarter of Liverpool . |
| 10 | And Mr Sullivan says he has no plans to sell the painting … for at least the time being . |