Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] [adv] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In other areas where similar changes occurred at a slightly later date , the rise of mass material culture and retailing was the subject of some incisive commentary . |
2 | Experimentation with heroin for interviewees in the hidden sector , then , began at a much earlier stage , after an average of six months of recreational drug use instead of 17 months . |
3 | But the development of the idea of a ‘ nation ’ and the formation of nation states in Europe began at a much earlier time , and in order to understand the vigour of later nationalist movements in Europe and elsewhere we need to look more closely at that historical process . |
4 | Daphne flitted from party to party while I walked at a slightly faster pace from lecture hall to lecture hall , our two paths rarely crossing . |
5 | The fall of the Manchus in China hinted at the far wider rebellion that would mark the first half of the twentieth century , transforming world political geography from a handful of empires , maps on which only the primary colours were needed to show each domain , to a mass of independent States , more numerous than the ingenuity of any distinguishable colour range . |
6 | CLO patients who smoked started at a slightly later age ( median 20 , range 12–38 ) than patients with severe reflux oesophagitis ( median 18 , range 10–28 ) , and adenocarcinoma patients ( median 18 , range 14–25 ) ( p<0.02 ) . |
7 | After averaging just 0.6% per annum through the 1970s , total factor productivity grew at a much faster rate of 1.6% per annum during the 1980s . |
8 | During these amazing years of unprecedented expansion Greater London grew at a much faster rate than the national population as a whole and faster than the suburbs of any provincial city . |
9 | In America , an explicitly anti-Darwinian school of neo-Lamarckism emerged at a much earlier date , despite the initial success of Darwin 's supporters . |