Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the early " in BNC.

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1 Ian James walked in during the early hours of the morning and stole a leather jacket and a handbag from the hall .
2 Starting with a bank loan of £4,000 , Roddick had no time to sit down in the early years and draw up a grandiose mission of what her organisation should set out to achieve .
3 More seriously , Edward 's scheme to create a monopoly in the export of wool broke down in the early months of 1338 .
4 This is not true of Cramlington , where the basic development programme laid down in the early 1960s has continued , with only two significant changes relating to the use of industrial land and the role of the shopping centre development .
5 It seems that , although some substantial and long-standing export industries declined , others expanded their export sales over the post-war period ( although the rise slowed down in the early 1980s ) .
6 Revisionist work has still to be drawn together into a full-scale synthesis , in part no doubt , because the quantity of new doctoral research in the field slowed down in the early 1980s .
7 An early regard for the quality of life was shown when the walls of the medieval town were pulled down in the early nineteenth century .
8 The government 's initial failure to hold spending down in the early 1980s was not for lack of trying .
9 No executions had been carried out since 1984 , and there were currently 287 people in prison waiting for parliament to confirm or commute their death sentences ( mostly handed down in the early 1980s ) .
10 It was merely a figure of speech ; you need have no fear that I 'll creep along in the early hours to take advantage of your defenceless body . ’
11 Deals concluded in the first quarter averaged 4.3 per cent , slightly down on the earlier estimate of 4.5 per cent , but closer to the current four per cent inflation rate .
12 The overall trajectory since the early nineteenth century seems to be a rough U-shape : falling down to the early 1900s , a plateau until the mid-1950s , and a steepening rise since then .
13 From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today .
14 Here it was binding as covering the period down to the early part of 1945 , and as from that time full rent is payable .
15 ‘ If we do not act then thousands more will come floating in on the early spring tides , maybe tens of thousands , even hundreds , and they will bring chaos and suffering on a scale far larger than anything we have seen so far , ’ he warned .
16 He should be brought in at the earliest stages to advise on venues — which would save time , money and frustration .
17 The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century .
18 Piper knows Benn is prone to run out of gas if he ca n't get through in the early rounds .
19 They leave their civilian jobs , and instead of heading for home and a quiet night in front of the television , report in to their company bases , change into military uniform and are briefed for the night 's patrol tasks , which will take them through until the early hours of the morning , When they again become civilians .
20 The six rooms on the main floor of the Academy will be devoted to : innovations in composition in the second half of the eighteenth century , through to the early work of Cotman and Girtin , with an emphasis on the importance of Alexander Cozens ; topography , spanning the entire chronological period from the Sandby brothers to Lear ; naturalism , including watercolour sketches , observations of nature , still-lifes , animal studies etc. ; later developments in composition ; atmosphere , stressing the ‘ proto-impressionist ’ nature of works by artists such as Cox and Muller ; and lastly the relationship between watercolours and oils and the role of the Old Water-Colour Society in the promotion of the medium as suitable to portray historical and literary subjects .
21 The rate of growth of agricultural output in the Meiji period is subject to considerable dispute , but it is probable that a rate of around 1.8 per cent annual growth in output was maintained through to the early 1900s at least , far outstripping the rate of population growth in the same period .
22 Only the Gittinses and the Hanmers were resident gentry from the second quarter of the sixteenth century through to the early years of the eighteenth century .
23 The trains time her life , crashing through fitful dreams at night , slackening off in the early hours .
24 There is nothing which cuts him off from the early sociologists in his basic assumptions about the importance of instincts and their interaction with men 's cultures .
25 Get up with Mum , have a coffee with her before she went off to the early shift , lay the table , shout up to the little ones to get up or else , put the bacon on the grill , put the beans in the pan , butter the bread , boil the kettle .
26 Though in itself fairly insensitive under normal conditions it had to be set off by the early , very sensitive , mercury-fulminate detonator which was fired by safety fuze .
27 I chewed my lip and stared into the faint mist being burnt off by the early morning sun .
28 By midnight it 's really rocking and on into the early hours of the morning we adjourn to one of the best discos in Faliraki , Set Disco , where 18–30 Social members can get special discounts .
29 as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven .
30 I thought I 'd wait up for the early morning newscast on the radio . ’
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