Example sentences of "[conj] early [num] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If UK companies had recognised in the 1960s or early 1970s the need to enter the high-volume chip business , Juleff thinks that the whole of the British electronics industry would be in a better state . |
| 2 | It was also rumoured that in the late 1970s or early 1980s the Commission had sold Mark Wood and Latton Wood in Essex to the then Harlow New Town Corporation , because of slow growth and dieback attributed to air pollution . |
| 3 | A sophisticated statistical evaluation suggested that in the late fifties and early sixties the plan provided better pictures of the evolution of the economy than would have been derived simply by extrapolating past trends . |
| 4 | In the fifties and early sixties the cost of imports had risen much more slowly than prices inside the advanced countries . |
| 5 | Various new indirect taxes were introduced , and in the late 1650s and early 1660s the coinage was debased . |
| 6 | In the late 1960s and early 1970s a reform movement spread , dissatisfied with the apparent arbitrariness of traditional forms of budget allocation . |
| 7 | In the late 1950s and early 1960s a survey of sources of radio waves from outer space was carried out at Cambridge by a group of astronomers led by Martin Ryle ( who had also worked with Bondi , Gold , and Hoyle on radar during the war ) . |
| 8 | During the 1950s and early 1960s a lot of effort was devoted to attempts , in the first place , to identify and measure parental attitudes and , in the second place , to relate them to characteristics of child behaviour . |
| 9 | For example , by the late 1950s and early 1960s the Japanese and the Americans had begun to develop their own sophisticated global markets . |
| 10 | During the late sixties and early seventies the mining companies brought shortlived booms to the areas in which they were operating , before heading off for other prospects , leaving their wastes and miners behind them . |
| 11 | Eliot and Pound did establish a poetic revolution , and in the seventies and early eighties the rhetoric of revolution became attractive to anglophone poststructuralists . |
| 12 | In the late seventies and early eighties an era of public housing came to an end . |