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

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1 By the late 1920s the activities of birth control groups ensured that the matter was openly discussed , the matter being almost a compulsory subject for discussion in the local meetings of the Women 's Section of the Labour Party .
2 By the late 1920s the nationalist government had achieved tariff autonomy and an agreement in principle to give up extraterritoriality , yet enclaves of foreign settlers , foreign interests and foreign troops ( nominally for protection of the first two ) remained .
3 From the late 1920s the PCF progressed from sectarian isolationism ( 1927–33 ) to Popular Front co-operation ( 1934–8 ) to illegality ( 1939–41 ) .
4 In the late 1690s the Scottish government gave its support to a proposal intended to enable the country to escape from all its economic problems : a trading company was to be launched which would set up a commercial centre at Darien on the Panama Isthmus .
5 By the late 1840s the English race of the great copper butterfly , which had retained its last stronghold around Whittlesey , had become extinct .
6 On the other hand , anti-papalism and anti-Catholicism had struck deep roots within Elizabethan society , and when England was threatened by Spain in the late 1580s the war that followed was viewed by many in England as a glorious life or death struggle for national and religious survival against the evil forces of the counter-Reformation .
7 First , as until at least the late 1960's the Club was in poor straits financially — mostly , but not entirely , to do with low membership , there was no way in which it could contemplate buying out the bonds either at par or in instalments ( of not less than £2 10s. 0d. per bond ) as allowed by the rules .
8 In the late 1970s a contract was signed with Canada for the creation of three nuclear power stations .
9 One journalist has written that during the Grunwick dispute of the late 1970s a tap was attached to the telephone used by the strike committee in the Brent Trades ' Council offices in Willesden Lane .
10 For twenty years from 1961 Ahidjo had relative success in maintaining stability in Cameroun , and by the late 1970s the country was experiencing high rates of growth .
11 By the late 1970s the state sector had become not only a harbour of inefficiency , as in many ‘ developed ’ countries , but also a greenhouse of the hybrid values emerging in Africa many of which were inimical to efficient methods of low-cost production .
12 By the late 1970s the impetus towards central control was well established .
13 In the late 1970s the early pioneering initiatives such as the Scottish Pupil Profile and the Evesham Personal Achievement Record were subject to considerable diversification by the entry into the field of various further education bodies .
14 In the late 1970s the policy of building by prisoners was abandoned and the work put out to contract , as in most other jurisdictions .
15 In the late 1970s the AHA made significant efforts to determine a once-and-for-all decision for Friern .
16 In the late 1970s the government introduced a scheme to improve the quality and profitability of the rug-making industry , which involved the reintroduction of natural dyes and traditional weaving methods .
17 By the late 1970s the Countryside Commission had designated 33 AONBs in England and Wales , occupying more than 9 per cent of the total land surface .
18 From the late 1970s the debate around the imaging of women 's bodies was furthered , particularly in the UK and New York , by the work of those artists and theoreticians who wished to remove the body of woman from view while instead concentrating upon notions of femininity , replacing the bodies of a women as sites which produced struggle , with womanliness as a named site of struggle .
19 This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) .
20 As far as CNAA post-graduate studies are concerned , in the late 1970s the Council undertook a searching review , under the Chairmanship of David Bethel , of its then eighteen courses .
21 By the late 1970s the quality improvement process began to gain credence in the USA and is now being applied by some businesses in Europe .
22 With Ostpolitik and acceptance of the division of Germany in the late Sixties the church removed one of the worst bones of contention by leaving the pan-German Evangelical Church .
23 Formerly Derry & Toms , in the late Sixties the building became Biba 's , a fashionable boutique of the day ; in the Seventies , the roof club became Regine 's , a watering hole of the internationally rich and idle .
24 In the late sixties the initial effect of overaccumulation was a period of feverish growth , with rapidly rising wages and prices and an enthusiasm for get-rich-quick schemes .
25 The original impulse had been non-denominational , but by the late 1790s the Anglican Church was drawing apart to go its own way , fearful that Methodism especially was gaining converts and even , as the Bishop of Rochester expressed it in 1800 : " Schools of Jacobinical religion and Jacobinical politics abound in this country in the shape of charity schools and Sunday schools . "
26 In the late Thirties the Baroness Hila Rebay was busy looking for a name for the new art museum her mentor Solomon R. Guggenheim was about to found and of which she was about to become the first director .
27 But by the late 1800s the trust emerged again , not just in the field of real property .
28 Havel , the young playwright in the late 1960s A writer still ? .
29 However , during the late 1960s a dramatic and unprecedented increase in public concern for the environment occurred .
30 By the late 1960s a number of lines of evidence were being brought together into a new , radical model of global tectonics .
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