Example sentences of "[conj] early in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 In 1880 Ormiston 's health began to fail and early in 1882 he retired to the Isle of Wight , where he died in Freshwater 9 July 1882 .
2 He was commissioned almost at once , and early in 1792 he returned to the Foudroyant as first lieutenant ; in April of the same year he was promoted master and commander , being given the Pigmy of 14 guns ; and in 1790 he was made post .
3 In 1865 several experimenters were on the brink of discovering the important principle of self-excitation , and early in 1866 he presented a paper to the Royal Society on ‘ A New and Powerful Generator of Dynamic Electricity ’ , but failed to realize that practical self-excitation was within his grasp .
4 More Trackers had been ordered , and early in 1978 we were told that the Department had also ordered two of Brooke Marine 's thirty-three metre standard patrol boats .
5 He was already in Paris on the king 's business during July 1258 , and early in 1263 he was one of Henry III 's proctors in the French royal court .
6 In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table .
7 That means that the reduction in the rent applied throughout the years down to the end of 1944 , but early in 1945 it is plain that the flats were fully let , and , indeed the rents received from them ( many of them not being affected by the Rent Restrictions Acts ) , were increased beyond the figure at which it was originally contemplated that they would be let .
8 ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ .
9 In 1516 he was associated with Vertue in designing new works at Eton College , the west range and Lupton 's tower , but early in 1515 he had already become architect to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey [ q.v. ]
10 When early in 1952 he held an exhibition of his work at the Archer Gallery in Notting Hill , he rang up Minton and invited him to see it .
11 His map of Cheshire , begun in 1774 , must have been completed by assistants , for early in 1775 he entered the service of the margrave of Baden , leaving a wife with his considerable debts .
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