Example sentences of "early [num] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short was a child prodigy and the outstanding product of the English chess explosion of the 70s and early 80s which took English chess from the second division to second place only to the former Soviet Union . |
| 2 | ‘ In early 1991 we had particular problems in achieving the levels of service on the Back Office system which would enable branches to meet their business needs . |
| 3 | But in the early 1160s he had little success at bending the Welsh princes to his will , while one major invasion attempt in July 1165 was thwarted by atrocious summer weather . |
| 4 | A further area for the media group to check is the loss of circulation due to strikes or other problems : during the continuing difficulties that beset Fleet Street in the early eighties it became standard practice for papers affected to provide a rebate for lost circulation . |
| 5 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |