Sentence examples for commences at least from inspiring English sources

Imaging of dendritic spines before and during plaque formation demonstrated that spine loss around plaques commences at least 4 weeks after initial plaque formation.

Collecting commenced at least as early as the Shang dynasty, which ruled China from approximately the mid-16th to the mid-11th century bce, and it was well developed by the Qin dynasty (3rd century bce)—as attested by the tomb of the Qin emperor Shihuangdi, near Xi'an (Sian), which was guarded by an army of terra-cotta warriors and horses.

Recordings were only commenced at least 1 h after surgery.

All contacts with symptoms, consistent with TB, that commenced at least 2 months after their respective index case was diagnossed, or with a positive Mantoux test (at least 10 mm of induration) at any follow-up time point, were considered to be possible secondary TB cases.

PET scanning commenced at least 30 minutes after tracer injection with scan duration of 20 minutes.

Experiments commenced at least two weeks after surgery and were conducted on conscious sheep.

This was commenced at least 24 h before surgery and continued until discharge.

Rats received surgery at least 2 weeks after arriving in the laboratory, and behavioral testing commenced at least 2 weeks after the completion of surgery.

In order to avoid passive soil degassing caused by irrigation, CO2 measurements commenced at least two hours after watering as instructed by LI-COR [ 34].

Overall, 112 units (57% of all units invited) actively participated (Additional data file 2), of which 104 units commenced at least one infusion of DrotAA.

However, results have been published for only 2 of these mainly short-term studies, although half of the trials commenced at least 3 years ago.