Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] least [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that shareholders are no longer also running the firms they own has been chewed over at least since the 1930s . |
| 2 | the farmers will hope it holds off at least for the next few weeks . |
| 3 | Boxing Day morning was grey and overcast but the rain promised to hold off at least until the evening . |
| 4 | Heath was attempting to break with the politics of accommodation , the ‘ triangular system ’ of government/union/employer consultation which had been growing up at least since the war . |
| 5 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 6 | In the United States it dates back at least to the Civil War ; the 1949 John Ford-John Wayne movie , ‘ She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ’ , underscores the practice 's lineage . |
| 7 | Species superficially resembling Terebratula maxima may be found all over the world in rocks going back at least to the Jurassic period . |
| 8 | Their history goes back at least to the Ordovician , although some of the Palaeozoic asteroids are distantly related , if at all , to the living species . |
| 9 | The roots of Serbian nationalism go back at least to the Empire of Stevan Dušan in the fourteenth century . |
| 10 | The wish to discern a framework for the Earth itself is something which dates back at least to the time of Ptolemy . |
| 11 | To attempt to confine the disqualification to ‘ true ’ episcopal ordination takes the argument back at least to the Reformation and perhaps to St. Peter . |
| 12 | With the girl 's clothes we should be able to trace her back at least to the point at which she was dropped during the night — or I hope so , after all that rain . |
| 13 | The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | The idea itself went back at least to the 1850s when such boards had been set up in shipbuilding on the Wear and for the silk trade in Macclesfield . |
| 15 | Evidence of Dalmatians ( whom the Italians called Schiavone or Slavs ) working in Italy goes back at least to the time of Radovan . |
| 16 | Soviet initiatives for the Mediterranean in the guise of denuclearisation or the creation of zones of peace date back at least to the Soviet ‘ Draft Declaration on Non-Intervention in the Middle East ’ presented in February 1957 . |
| 17 | An alternative usage , which goes back at least to the seventeenth century , made " family " a widely dispersed group of relatives , loosely linked by ties of " blood " and affinity , but not necessarily associated with any one household . |
| 18 | Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War . |
| 19 | This led to the usual talk of dismissing coach Luis Gradin , the man in charge throughout this period of successive defeats , but he will stay on at least until the end of the year when the present Argentine RU committee changes . |