Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the early [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allegheny West Civic Council ( AWCC ) was formed during the early 1970s to mark the distinctiveness of the area from neighbouring Manchester , which had a reputation for disadvantage . |
| 2 | It rose during the early 1980s but has fallen 9% since 1986 and is now about the same level as in the mid 1960s . |
| 3 | The profound learning experience which occurred during the early 1980s has established a style of operation and a mutual receptivity to change which Pilkingtons believe will transform the company from a reactive to a proactive organization capable of dealing with market uncertainty . |
| 4 | So when he was approached in the early '80s to be part-time chairman of Wandsworth Health Authority in London ‘ I knew what I was taking on ’ . |
| 5 | Improved and expanded since opening in the early 70's the marina has matured into a real alternative to the South Coast . |
| 6 | Perhaps one person in that list , however , stands out , as representing in the early 1970s almost all that Mrs Whitehouse was fighting against . |
| 7 | But , my Lord Mayor , Labour were not to know in the early eighties how popular the Tenants Right to Buy would be . |
| 8 | The origins of Sudan 's severe debt crisis go back to the policies pursued from the early 1970s onwards . |
| 9 | As a film like Scandal , which dealt with the Profumo affair , might make young people go back and check out more about what was happening in the early sixties , so I was doing the same in terms of the fifties . |
| 10 | This pattern became further exaggerated in the early 1970s when the cores lost population even more rapidly . |
| 11 | The monumental Portland Building rose in the early 1950s and teaching and residential accommodation space grew rapidly in the 1960s and 70s to keep pace with the growing demand for university places . |
| 12 | Loxtidine ( one of the H2-antagonists dropped in the early 1980s ) was given a clean bill of health by the same test . |
| 13 | Share issues were subdued in the early 1980s but rose strongly after that as the market improved . |
| 14 | The Northern Echo reported in the early 1970s that the conversion project was costing Grand Metropolitan £450,000 . |
| 15 | The idea of road pricing first surfaced in the early Sixties . |
| 16 | Alternative plans to neutralise Afghanistan surfaced in the early 1980s in the West and the Third World among academics and diplomats . |
| 17 | Before it is the white eighteenth-century railing erected to add dignity and distance to the smart new house which John Pollexton built in the early 1700s . |
| 18 | The building dates back to the early 1800s and although it was partly rebuilt in the early 1900s it still resembles the original design . |
| 19 | Prewar production levels were not regained until the early 1950s , and not until even later were 1930s agricultural productivity levels exceeded . |
| 20 | Thus Douglas found in the early 1960s that even among the most able , working-class pupils were more likely to leave school early than middle-class pupils with the same IQ scores . |
| 21 | These began to flourish in the early 1970s , and by 1975 there were 185 . |
| 22 | However , GKR began to flourish in the early 1980s , not so much in financial services as across the board in industry . |
| 23 | This shows that after a freshening in the early 1970s , the salinity ( and temperature ) began to increase in the early 1980s , although not to the same level as in 1970 . |
| 24 | The advent of natural gas for use in the ammonia process occurred in the early 1970s . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , as already suggested , wages did not decrease at the height of the slump of 1929 to 1933 at anything like the level of reductions which occurred in the early 1920s and some type of stability and balance was being established . |
| 26 | The SDA 's third urban regeneration phase , according to Boyle ( 1988 ) , occurred in the early 1980s . |
| 27 | The winter of Keynesian discontent probably occurred in the early 1980s , since when there have been signs of a marked rally . |
| 28 | Despite the publicity ( and acrimony ) surrounding the ‘ two cultures ’ debate in the early 1960s ( Snow 1964 ; Leavis and Yudkin 1962 ) , the distinction is implicit rather than overt in Robbins ( 1963 ) , although the worries about the intake of maths/science-based students show through in several sections ( see , for example , Robbins 1963 , Table 45 ) . |
| 29 | But unless quality and productivity can be improved in leaps and bounds by the early 1990s , then Dagenham is unlikely to have a future as a car production plant . |
| 30 | Previous results showed that the subpolar North Atlantic had warmed between the early 1950s and early 1970s , whereas since then there has been cooling . |