Example sentences of "[prep] [art] late [adj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 However , during the late 1960s a dramatic and unprecedented increase in public concern for the environment occurred .
2 Women ratepayers , married or unmarried , had long been permitted to sit on urban and rural district councils and parish councils , so that during the late 1890s the number of women holding elected office in local government ( including Poor Law and school board work ) may well have exceeded the number holding office today .
3 During the Late Carboniferous the proliferation of plant growth on land not only provided coal seams but contributed abundant particulate and dissolved organic matter to the pro-delta and deeper marine areas .
4 During the late 1980s the line to Doncaster was severed when the swing–bridge over the River Ouse are Goole was damaged by a Swedish freighter on 23 November 1988 .
5 During the late fifties the Rat Pack began to come together .
6 One journalist has written that during the Grunwick dispute of the late 1970s a tap was attached to the telephone used by the strike committee in the Brent Trades ' Council offices in Willesden Lane .
7 After the turmoils of the late 1940s the dominant objective of financial policy was the maintenance of sterling [ Goodhart , 1973 ] .
8 Throughout the late 1890s the police had been bothered by complaints about young boys throwing stones or spitting from the London bridges on to boats and their passengers below .
9 Government , in carrying through into the late 1940s the orthodoxies of the 1920s , had trapped itself into what was to prove an untenable position .
10 From the late 1970s the debate around the imaging of women 's bodies was furthered , particularly in the UK and New York , by the work of those artists and theoreticians who wished to remove the body of woman from view while instead concentrating upon notions of femininity , replacing the bodies of a women as sites which produced struggle , with womanliness as a named site of struggle .
11 From the late 1920s the PCF progressed from sectarian isolationism ( 1927–33 ) to Popular Front co-operation ( 1934–8 ) to illegality ( 1939–41 ) .
12 Revisionist scholars began to make full use of the primary material published in the Soviet Union in the 1920s ; the cultural thaw and the opening up of debate among specialists within the Soviet Union increased readiness to take seriously new research by Soviet scholars ; from the late 1950s a series of cultural exchange agreements between the USSR and the major western democracies facilitated western scholars ' access to Soviet libraries and , to a much more limited extent , to archives .
13 In the late 1970s a contract was signed with Canada for the creation of three nuclear power stations .
14 In the late 1970s the early pioneering initiatives such as the Scottish Pupil Profile and the Evesham Personal Achievement Record were subject to considerable diversification by the entry into the field of various further education bodies .
15 In the late 1970s the policy of building by prisoners was abandoned and the work put out to contract , as in most other jurisdictions .
16 In the late 1970s the AHA made significant efforts to determine a once-and-for-all decision for Friern .
17 In the late 1970s the government introduced a scheme to improve the quality and profitability of the rug-making industry , which involved the reintroduction of natural dyes and traditional weaving methods .
18 This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) .
19 As far as CNAA post-graduate studies are concerned , in the late 1970s the Council undertook a searching review , under the Chairmanship of David Bethel , of its then eighteen courses .
20 In the late 1690s the Scottish government gave its support to a proposal intended to enable the country to escape from all its economic problems : a trading company was to be launched which would set up a commercial centre at Darien on the Panama Isthmus .
21 In the late Thirties the Baroness Hila Rebay was busy looking for a name for the new art museum her mentor Solomon R. Guggenheim was about to found and of which she was about to become the first director .
22 With Ostpolitik and acceptance of the division of Germany in the late Sixties the church removed one of the worst bones of contention by leaving the pan-German Evangelical Church .
23 Formerly Derry & Toms , in the late Sixties the building became Biba 's , a fashionable boutique of the day ; in the Seventies , the roof club became Regine 's , a watering hole of the internationally rich and idle .
24 In the late sixties the initial effect of overaccumulation was a period of feverish growth , with rapidly rising wages and prices and an enthusiasm for get-rich-quick schemes .
25 Havel , the young playwright in the late 1960s A writer still ? .
26 But in the late 1960s the relative autonomy of the teaching profession over the curriculum came increasingly under attack .
27 In the late 1960s the company took over premises in the City of London and grew by adding overflow locations .
28 And in the late 1960s the over-riding concern switched to the circumstances surrounding the devaluation of 1967 .
29 In the late 1960s the case for Congressional reform had gathered strength .
30 In the late 1960s the House of Commons experimented with some special committees modelled very loosely on the American pattern but they did not last long .
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