Example sentences of "since [prep] least the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dolphins have been hunted in Japanese coastal waters since at least the seventeenth century , when drive fisheries were first reported . |
| 2 | ABOVE : Lodgemore Mill has been in use since at least the 12th century and is still in use for cloth manufacture . |
| 3 | Those qualities owed little to the opportunities provided by formal schooling or family background : the Pooles had been tanners in the Stowey area since at least the early eighteenth century , and Tom Poole 's father , the eldest of four gifted brothers , ran a large and thriving tanning business from his Castle Street home . |
| 4 | in Trafalgar Square , central London ; a church has stood on this site since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 5 | This shape of coffin had been in use throughout western Europe since at least the middle of the fourteenth century , as shown by an illuminated manuscript in the Royal Library , Brussels , depicting the burial of victims of the Great Plague of Tournai in 1349 . |
| 6 | French leadership of the European movement , which it had held since at least the early 1950s , was severely shaken and no longer undisputed , even though its influence would remain strong . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | These emissaries often bore gifts as well as eloquent words : since at least the early thirteenth century royal pensions were granted to promising or influential cardinalsto eighteen at least of the seventy-two who there were between 1305 and 1334 , to six alone in 1309 when the royal mission secured papal backing for Gaveston 's recall . |
| 12 | Western music as a whole , since at least the late Middle Ages , is best seen as a ‘ total system ’ . |
| 13 | The little harbour of refuge has existed since at least the fourteenth century , and the house , first mentioned a century later , was a place of shelter for sailors caught by the sudden tempest so typical of the Fohn south wind in these parts , but in more recent times often called the ferry house . |
| 14 | There had however been some resistance to what was seen as Russification since at least the 1960s , and in the 1980s the development of nuclear power was a new and very potent source of public disenchantment . |
| 15 | No such brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration had been seen in the Soviet Union since at least the early 1960s , strengthening rumours that the action , directed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs rather than by Georgian officials , might have been covertly encouraged by Kremlin conservatives intent on discrediting Gorbachev and the policy of perestroika . |
| 16 | You know as well as I do that art and commerce have walked hand in hand since at least the Renaissance . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Most Victorian cities had been urban centres since at least the Middle Ages , though of course they had been tiny in comparison with the size they attained in the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Since at least the later 1970s , perhaps in reaction to the flamboyant ( and highly successful ) practices of the Munrow era , many critics writing in England have suspected that conspicuous and varied orchestrations of medieval and Renaissance music reflect performers ' failure of confidence in the variety and quality of the music they are performing . |
| 21 | We 've just conducted a very primary review , and we found that the interest and the demand for these seminars has been pretty constant since at least the early seventies , therefore we feel that we are we seem to be fulfilling a need of Third World governments and agencies . |