Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] 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 | Then , by pure chance — but seeing it as an act of providence — she had heard Lin Foh call down for an early supper , for him and his CI5 guardian . |
| 3 | In the Elizabethan Restaurant the shift has changed and tea is being prepared ; the duty staff will be in for an early meal shortly . |
| 4 | People living on the riverbanks ca n't remember it being so bad for many years and if there 's rugby here tomorrow , then the players will be in for an early bath . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | More seriously , Edward 's scheme to create a monopoly in the export of wool broke down in the early months of 1338 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The government 's initial failure to hold spending down in the early 1980s was not for lack of trying . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Here it was binding as covering the period down to the early part of 1945 , and as from that time full rent is payable . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Plainly there are different degrees of misbehaviour and the partners will not readily resort to the extreme sanction of expulsion , but it is in the interests of the firm that a tendency to depart from proper professional standards be investigated and warnings handed down at an early stage before serious harm is done . |
| 19 | The government could have clamped down at an early stage with tough deflationary policies . |
| 20 | The management contractor , by being brought in at an early stage , will become involved in the design process in co-operation with the client 's designer . |
| 21 | The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Piper knows Benn is prone to run out of gas if he ca n't get through in the early rounds . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The sky was cloudy when Giles set off after an early breakfast . |
| 28 | Hopefully Hereford are on the way up after beating Doncaster … good win this … a good performance which kicked off with an early goal from Owen Pickard … |
| 29 | The trains time her life , crashing through fitful dreams at night , slackening off in the early hours . |
| 30 | 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 . |