Example sentences of "[prep] earliest [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell me what you remember about the Palfry Working Men 's Club , your sort of earliest memories of it |
| 2 | This museum 's displays illustrate the history of leather use from earliest times to the present day . |
| 3 | From earliest times it has been assumed that at least some dreams are important — bearing messages either from the gods or from the dreamer 's subconscious , depending upon one 's cultural context . |
| 4 | Fish provided a harvest from earliest times . |
| 5 | the story of Wales from earliest times |
| 6 | The " balm " of Gilead ( an area roughly east of the Jordan and north of the Jabbok ) was famous , and the spice-trade an important one from earliest times . |
| 7 | The importance of these spiritual disciplines is also recognized in Islam , where from earliest times there has been a certain class of men known as ‘ The Weepers ’ , who devote themselves to ascetic practices . |
| 8 | From earliest times the pope 's court acted as the centre of justice , the " seat of justice " as Pope Innocent II had called it . |
| 9 | His bright and affectionate nature won him numerous friends from earliest schooldays . |
| 10 | Members of several gangs , from earliest teens to twenties , crowded the cracked plastic benches in the reception vestibule or squatted on the floor , awaiting processing , a slow operation . |
| 11 | From earliest years , each of our four children have been introduced to the gentle art and they are all still keen anglers . |
| 12 | He served in the Colonial Administrative Service of the Gold Coast from 1945 to 1957 and , from earliest days , was convinced of the urgent need to Africanise the civil service , in preparation for independence . |
| 13 | From earliest days , the proportion of the hexagon was recommended to be 5 units deep , 4 units wide with the cross-spars 3 units apart and this simple formula with units at 500mm ( 19¾in ) has sufficed adequately . |
| 14 | Copies were sent to John Hayward , Herbert Read , and perhaps others — from earliest days , as we have seen , he had relied upon the advice and encouragement of friends . |
| 15 | For earliest blooms next year , sow now in cool greenhouse or coldframe to overwinter , or March to May next year . |
| 16 | The creation of lifelike movement by mechanical means has preoccupied man since earliest times . |
| 17 | Since earliest times it seems that attempts were made to make wine as red as possible : in those places where vines producing white grapes thrived , it is likely that any |
| 18 | Since earliest times , mankind has classified the world into four elements — earth , air , fire and water . |
| 19 | It is a fundamental concept that can be traced back to earliest times . |
| 20 | But even where there may seem to have been little affection shown and where few apparent links remain , emotional ties that go back to earliest days are strong , and feelings about the death of a parent are bound to go deep . |
| 21 | Wenger ( 1984 ) identified that the death of a sibling or friends may be harder to get over than the death of a spouse , perhaps because the longevity of the relationship goes back to earliest years . |