Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] least the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was performance that drew applause from a press corps relieved to be approaching the end of at least the first election campaign this year , and brought smiles to previously glum ministerial faces . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One tape unit will be required to run this procedure , together with at least the next sequential NEWOED tape . |
| 5 | Indeed , it is the implications of the changing age structure of the population of pensionable age and the likelihood of a continuation of that trend into at least the first decade of the twenty-first century which have been the chief concern of social planners and welfare economists , rather than the proportion of the total population entitled to draw retirement pensions . |
| 6 | Nonconformity persisted in the Nicholls dynasty into at least the third generation . |
| 7 | The historical year , now in general use in England for all everyday purposes and many official and ecclesiastical , begins on 1 January , and thus coincides with the Roman civil year which was widely used until at least the seventh century . |
| 8 | From the information in Table 3 find that recall is fairly stable until at least the 14th word when recall is immediate . |
| 9 | There is some evidence of ribbon development along Watling Street on the Strood side of the Medway , but this suburb was probably not large enough to account for the size of the cemeteries , which date from the middle of the first century until at least the third . |
| 10 | In at least the last three types of valid cluster the motivation is to overcome or exploit some kind of market failure . |
| 11 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp is disappointed with its Sparc business , which is falling and impacted its earnings in at least the last quarter : but now it reckons its Pinnacle Sparc shot ( UX No 381 ) will save the day in the second half . |
| 12 | The idea that there was a golden age of family obligations in the past was born out of a desire to ensure that increasing numbers of elderly people ( and other dependent groups ) in the population did not become too heavy a burden financially upon the wealthier classes ; hence the anxieties about whether working-class people had an adequate sense of ‘ filial affection ’ , which can be documented from at least the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | It is now realised that lesser landowners , or gentry , played a crucial role in all aspects of medieval English history from at least the mid-thirteenth century . |
| 14 | We have evidence from at least the seventeenth century of restraint of births , and there is clear evidence of a planned decline of working-class family size from the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | In fact conflict between Franks and Alamans was probably endemic from at least the fourth century until Clovis 's reign . |
| 16 | Such an orientation to problem-solving has been a distinctive feature of English political culture for many centuries , discernible , I would suggest , since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Britain , France , Belgium and Holland had been engaged in the process of capital accumulation from the formation of overseas empires and from the slave trade since at least the sixteenth century . |
| 19 | ( BH ) RIGHT : Churchend Mill formerly stood on a site in use since at least the 14th century . |
| 20 | ( c. 1235–1296 ) , judge , was probably born in or before 1235 in Shropshire , perhaps at Hopton Castle , which his family had held since at least the mid-twelfth century as major knightly tenants of the honour of Clun . |
| 21 | Crowfield has appeared quite clearly on at least the last two editions of half mill Sheet 2171CD ( Southern England & Wales ) but does n't appear on the latest Sheet 14 ( East Anglia — Edition 12 ) quarter mill . |
| 22 | It dates back to at least the fifth century BC and is still carried out today at the roadside in parts of Asia . |
| 23 | Such reclining figures , clasping either a cornucopia or an urn ( and sometimes both ) , date back to at least the mid-sixteenth century ( for example at the Villa Lante at Bagnaia in Italy ) and were a commonplace in late seventeenth-century Baroque gardens ( for example at Vaux-le-Vicomte , Versailles and Het Loo ) . |
| 24 | By the time of the French revolution three main classes of diplomat were generally recognised : the ambassador , with or without the title of " extraordinary " ; the envoy or envoy extraordinary , often with the additional designation of " minister plenipotentiary " ; and the resident , or now more commonly minister resident ( the term " minister " as a somewhat vague diplomatic title went back to at least the mid-sixteenth century ) . |
| 25 | Most ancient silver was extracted from argentiferous ( silver-rich ) lead by cupellation , a process dating back to at least the second millennium BC , which involved oxidising the lead to molten litharge ( lead oxide ) , leaving the relatively unreactive silver as the metal . |
| 26 | For a time , Freames was used for the manufacture of chemicals and later became known as Crystal Fountain Mill , then for the production of shoddy and mattress stuffing up to at least the Second World War . |
| 27 | A theory which , in its classic form , gives a pretty positive answer to at least the first two of these questions is utilitarianism . |
| 28 | The fragments have a long and complex history since their discovery , dating back to at least the sixteenth century . |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | Further , the fact that there has been such a steep rise in the number of divorces , combined with a fairly high rate of remarriage , means that a rising proportion of all marriages are of people marrying for at least the second time . |