Example sentences of "[prep] least [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An apparent opportunity for , or at least inclination to , US participation in Vietnamese national affairs as suggested in Saigon was soon to become a recognized imperative in Washington : and when the French ministers arrived in October 1950 to ask how much could be expected from the US to avoid financial disaster it was the drain of resources in Vietnam as much as the problems of French rearmament in Europe which prompted a close examination of French budgetary as well as military plans . |
| 2 | One decision will save local authorities at least part of the £500m they owe banks on contracts which they freely entered into . |
| 3 | New electoral rules will mean that at least part of Congress will be chosen by voters from all over the country , undermining the power of regional party bosses . |
| 4 | For example , the nine-member WEU ( perhaps with the other five European NATO members sitting as observers ) could decide on the operation of a European Reaction Force , at least part of which might be drawn from forces committed to NATO . |
| 5 | Could not private investment fill at least part of the gap ? |
| 6 | Some conscripts were able to live at home for at least part of their service , reporting for duty at 5.30 a.m. and returning in the late afternoon — but usually only those who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it . |
| 7 | But it may still be significant of at least part of contemporary reaction to Mary . |
| 8 | He wants to see cultural activities in at least part of Somerset House — although he has not ruled out some commercial use ( for example , a hotel ) in the rest . |
| 9 | Sir James Matheson , who had made a fortune in the China trade , bought the Isle of Lewis in 1844 , and at least part of the large sums he spent there ( in addition to famine relief and assistance for emigration ) appears to have been of direct benefit to the islanders . |
| 10 | However , often the best way of challenging a dysfunctional attitude is to test out the validity of the attitude , for example a client who believed he could not stand going to a party might be invited to test this belief out by going , for at least part of the time . |
| 11 | Almost a quarter of a random sample of adults dying in 1987 had spent at least part of the last year of their lives in a residential or nursing home ; one in eight spent all of that year in one . |
| 12 | A further 9 per cent of the people who died spent at least part of the last twelve months of their lives in such homes ; so almost a quarter , 23 per cent , were in residential homes at some stage in the last year of their lives . |
| 13 | The number of species of animals and plants living today runs into millions , and similar numbers of species have probably lived on earth for at least part of the earth 's history . |
| 14 | He subsequently went into partnership ; Stratford Mills were operated by Biddle and Bishop during the 1830s , although in later years , other tenants such as corn merchants , Reynolds and Allen , occupied at least part of the mills . |
| 15 | What is certain is that the corn milling firm of Reynolds and Allen were using at least part of it during the 1860s . |
| 16 | The turn of the century saw at least part of the site turned over to saw milling , but by 1911 Gladman and Co , piano makers , were there . |
| 17 | On six occasions committees were covered live for at least part of their hearings , usually when taking evidence from ministers . |
| 18 | As recently as the late 1950s when Pasolini wrote his two novels of , and largely in , the language of the Roman slums , at least part of his purpose was to stun his reader into recognition of a hidden social reality . |
| 19 | There is clearly now an urgent need for a Historic Stations Trust to remove those treasures that remain beyond the reach of the hammers of the destroyers , both official and unofficial , so that at least part of this precious heritage may be handed down to future generations . |
| 20 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |
| 21 | But it must be recognized that to teach about Christianity though it entails teaching about Christian doctrine , with the gospels and at least part of the Old Testament as the source and background of that doctrine , in no sense involves proselytizing . |
| 22 | As suggested above , rather more control over policy can be maintained if allocation is by criteria other than geographical ones , and many authorities allocate at least part of their bookfunds on the basis of function , user groups , or formats of material . |
| 23 | During this century , Indians have had their communal lands broken up , forcing the majority to become migrant labourers in the coastal areas for at least part of the year , in conditions often approaching serfdom . |
| 24 | Coastal waters have suffered most , yet they play the most important role in the chain of life as that is where the majority of marine species spend at least part of their lives , for example in the North Sea many fish have been found to suffer from skin infections , deformed skeletons and tumours . |
| 25 | All the experience suggests that their minds are absent on social issues , as Susie confessed hers were during at least part of each day . |
| 26 | They stay open late for at least part of the week , so that customers can shop after work |
| 27 | Jack Cowan , working at the California Institute of Technology , Pasadena , California , thinks that at least part of the hallucinogenic experience may result from an instability of neural activity in the visual cortex . |
| 28 | More specifically , we have found that there are adaptive reasons that seem to explain at least part of the variation that Lewontin cites in each of his examples . |
| 29 | Also it would involve computer firms in expensive re-designs. and at least part of this expense would find its way through to the end user . |
| 30 | If his claim stands up , it establishes that at least part of the redshift in the light from some astronomical objects is not produced simply by their recession from us in the expanding Universe , and that blunts the cutting edge of the most important tool in observational cosmology . |