Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [prep] least the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It would provide the people of Scotland with at least the hope that after privatisation they will have decent bus services . |
| 3 | In Strabane , Co Londonderry , more than six out of ten people have been out of work for at least the last year . |
| 4 | It is clear that LRT is planning regular increases above the rate of inflation for at least the next five years . |
| 5 | The following article written by , the editor of the national journal of the NCT ‘ New Generation ’ , struck a chord with the branch committee members , and we hope that you too will want to continue to be part of NCT for at least the year 1991 ! |
| 6 | Hence , during my time in post I have made a positive effort to spread the gospel of AI within at least the Engineering Branch . |
| 7 | Indeed , despite the demands of the councils of Orléans ( 533 , 538 , 549 ) , Clermont ( 535 ) , Paris ( 561/2 , 614 ) , Clichy ( 626/7 ) and Chalon-sur-Saône ( 647/53 ) kings can be seen to have exercised considerable influence in the appointment of bishops until at least the late seventh century . |
| 8 | The marks of a corporation are : perpetual succession , i.e. the death or withdrawal of members , or the addition of new members from time to time , does not impair the continuity and identity of the body : ‘ in like manner ’ , as Blackstone says , ‘ the river Thames is still the same river , though the parts which comprise it are changing every instant' ; the use of a common seal as evidence of at least the more formal acts of the corporation ; and the capacity to sue and be sued by its corporate name . |
| 9 | A strong indication that the Muftilik was in existence by at least the middle of Murad II 's reign , however , is given in the words of the fifteenth-century Burgundian courtier Bertrandon de la Broquière . |
| 10 | The broadening of aims and objectives has not been a sudden panic measure to the market forces of the 1990s but has been part of a professional and careful reassessment which has been in progress since at least the late 1960s . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( BH ) RIGHT : Churchend Mill formerly stood on a site in use since at least the 14th century . |
| 14 | If offers are received in respect of at least the number of shares which the company wishes to purchase , the company will calculate the lowest price ( striking price ) acceptable to sufficient shareholders to ensure that all the shares required are sold . |
| 15 | ‘ Panics over juvenile crime have been a recurrent feature in Britain for at least the last 150 years , ’ Mr Bowman claimed . |
| 16 | It would thus seem that something very like the provisions of the Kanunname were in operation by at least the early sixteenth century ; and if the sources are not sufficiently detailed to confirm the operation of the provisions of the Kanunname in every detail , at the same time they do not cast doubt upon any detail . |
| 17 | Although Walton J. referred on two occasions to the plaintiff being under a mistaken belief that they were bound to pay the duties it is clear from his findings that in relation to at least the last three payments they were in considerable doubt as to their liability and he said , at p. 745 : |
| 18 | These had been in Rome since at least the end of the sixteenth century . |