Example sentences of "[art] late [adj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Within the 1920s cooperative framework Japan had sought to enhance her position in China , but as domestic conditions in China by the late 1920s increasingly undermined the rights of the powers there , Japan 's interests in adjoining areas also seemed threatened .
2 Secondly , from the late 1920s onwards , retirement as an immediate and simple palliative to the problem of unemployment was increasingly debated within reformist circles .
3 Purges of Stalin 's leadership rivals were followed by an immense extension of bureaucratic control of the economy and a ruthless party programme of forced industrialization and collectivization of Soviet agriculture , carried out with enormous loss of life from the late 1920s onwards .
4 Modern industrial enterprises were started by Mitsui , Mitsubishi , Sumitomo and Yasuda from the late 1920s onwards .
5 From the late 1620s onwards , a significant number of courtiers had begun to attend mass at the queen 's chapel and a steady stream of them subsequently became converts to Roman Catholicism .
6 Discontent with the system , and with the perceived discrimination against the south compared with the north , led to considerable politicization of secondary and tertiary education in the southern regions from the late 1970s onwards .
7 The recession in the early 1970s caused the highest unemployment since the ‘ Great Depression ’ of the 1930s , and this increased dramatically from the late 1970s onwards .
8 But worse was yet to come , since from the late 1970s onwards commodity prices have steadily declined , reaching their lowest level for 50 years in the middle of 1987 .
9 These cost-push Keynesians could look at the bleak unfolding of events from the late 1970s onwards with a justifiable sense of Schadenfreude .
10 The late 1970s also saw the initiation of the questioning of the value of educational growth .
11 A consumer boycott organised by environmental groups in the late 1970s slightly reduced demand , but the economic effects were insufficient to force a change in fishing practices .
12 In the late 1970s both Islington and Manchester Councils had given funding to voluntary groups , such as Friend and Switchboard .
13 Since the late 1970s both have enjoyed a more generous helping of autonomy than any other Spanish region .
14 By the late 1970s over 30 stretches , extending over 1,100 km , had been designated , including large parts of the coastline of north Northumberland , north Anglesey and Cornwall ( Countryside Commission 1982 ) .
15 To put it another way , in the late 1970s about 45 per cent of all lone mothers were receiving supplementary benefit , by the late 1980s over 70 per cent of all lone mothers were receiving income support .
16 That Something Very Unexpected , whatever it was , happened shortly afterwards : by the 1960s Amis was a figure of the New Right , and by the late 1970s publicly Thatcherite .
17 By the late 1970s only two dumping methods had been devised .
18 A couple of years later , introducing the first season of ‘ New Independents ’ on the newly launched Channel 4 , Alan Fountain wrote of the flowering of a new dimension of British film culture from the late sixties onwards , which ‘ recognised the need for a more imaginative , more politically responsive and aesthetically daring British Cinema ’ , linking this movement with the radical film-making tradition of the thirties .
19 However , Lutz et al. ( 1975 ) recognise that southwest of the Groningen High reburial would have led to renewed gas generation from the late Cretaceous onwards ; Lutz et a/. record the initial generation phase as having occurred from late Triassic to mid Jurassic .
20 From the late Cretaceous onwards the new sea-grass communities transformed the shallow neritic environment and seem to have promoted the contemporary radiation of deposit-feeding and epiphytic gastropods and miliolid foraminifera ( Brasier , 1975 ) .
21 Indeed , the achievement of a disciplinary identity based upon academic research had by the late 19305 more or less excluded the amateur scholar-gentleman .
22 Even more remarkable , perhaps , that this branch of the Titfords was to make only two significant moves from one place to another in the entire 400-year period from 1547 to 1947 : first leaving Bratton for Frome in 1625 , then settling in London from the late 1790s onwards .
23 Quite clearly the objective and you can reading between the lines of the propaganda which pours out er of the Chinese Communist Party for the late thirties onwards , reading between the lines you can see it the objective is essentially Chinese state power , achieving power and using power to build er a national er unified , modern state .
24 By the late 1750s all the major potteries : Chelsea , Bristol , Bow , Lowestoft , Derby , Longton Hall and Liverpool — were manufacturing and selling hundreds of porcelain and earthenware sauce-boats .
25 Where these problems are absent there appears to be little that a reasonably fit older person can not do with an efficiency equivalent to a high proportion of younger workers ( see Stones and Kozma , 1985 for a good survey of research findings in this field ) : ‘ It is clear that as a piece of anatomical and physiological machinery , the human organism becomes progressively impaired from the late twenties onwards .
26 From the late 1780s onwards , often fierce dialectical conflict with pro-slave trade and pro-slavery spokesmen was central to the intellectual experience of the antislavery movement .
27 From the late 1780s onwards evangelicals contributed substantially to the pamphlet literature against the slave trade .
28 In the late 1960s most economic commentators believed that the long boom was permanent .
29 Rock arguments in the late 1960s thus focused on commercial ‘ sell-outs ’ , on the transformation of culture into commodity , on rock 's relations to community and community action .
30 These ideas were given a great push forward by the increasing impact of American thinking on British social policy from the late 1960s onward .
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