Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [prep] 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 | Well , what about striker Damian Henderson ( 20 ) who has played in the Leeds reserves for at least the last two seasons . |
| 5 | The three teams relegated to the Alliance League will be guaranteed cash hand-outs from central funds for at least the next three years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Make a full-size drawing of at least the bracket . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That we do not treat animals with at least the same respect that we treat such unfortunate human creatures is seen by the liberationists as ‘ speciesism ’ in its purest form based as it is only upon the anatomical difference . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We also feel that the number of Scottish members of CTC warrants a grant of at least the £600 we got before . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In Strabane , Co Londonderry , more than six out of ten people have been out of work for at least the last year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In order to do this , however , Britain must herself become in some degree protectionist and place tariffs on foreign imports of at least the things which the Dominions had to sell to her — above all , food , if not also raw materials . |
| 21 | Probably a majority would recommend treatment of the female sexual partner(s) with at least the first attack of NSU , but , as with gonorrhoea where up to one third of female gonorrhoea contacts can be shown not to have the disease , such a policy of treatment without diagnosis is bound to lead to a certain amount of overtreatment . |
| 22 | It would provide the people of Scotland with at least the hope that after privatisation they will have decent bus services . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And to the east there are vast reserves of coal to supply fuel for at least the next 200 years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |