Example sentences of "[prep] the later stage " in BNC.

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1 There is , however , the difference that in those cases the control is used to investigate the first instability whereas here it is needed only for the later stages .
2 This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) .
3 During the later stages of the field surveys which were made for this Flora , the National Vegetation Classification project ( NVC ) was being carried out .
4 During the later stages of their development to adulthood they frequently move about with their parents and , at this stage , create a larger grouping .
5 Preston was founded during the later stages of the Anglo-Saxon invasions and the name means ‘ Priest Town ’ .
6 It had a good record during the later stages of the Battle of Britain , where it had produced Fighter Command 's only Victoria Cross of the war — Flt.Lt .
7 Philip the Fair 's government was often ( sometimes surprisingly ) prepared to compromise during the later stages of his reign , an attitude clearly reflected in the ‘ process ’ of Montreuil in Ponthieu .
8 During the later stages of the Primary Needs Programme , as we have noted , the Authority started to introduce school-led INSET , first on an experimental basis to some 30 per cent of primary schools , then across the sector as a whole .
9 During the later stages of the campaign in Europe , the role of the SAS became more tactical .
10 During the later stages of accretion , at the very least , the outer 100 km or so of the Moon melted , large areas being molten at the same time .
11 Douce 111 is a fifteenth-century manuscript that seems to have remained in France until being obtained by the nineteenth-century collector , Douce , and it has been deduced that the Middleton manuscript was taken as plunder from the French town of Laval during the later stages of the Hundred Years ' War , between March 1428 and September 1429 .
12 Such hydrothermal activity is most common during the later stages of volcanism .
13 There is no sharp distinction between the later stages of transition and the earlier ones of turbulent motion .
14 Many standards related to document processing have just been published or are currently going through the later stages of the ISO process on their way to becoming official standards .
15 The ‘ U'-shaped resources trajectory traced in Figure 5.4 through the later stages of life , first as a couple , then as a widow living alone , and then with other younger people is only one hypothetical trajectory .
16 Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life .
17 The growing economic and physical hardships of the later stages of the Pacific War , and the inability of the authorities reformed with a view to providing equality of opportunity , in the hope that this would back up a new , genuinely democratic social structure permitting a high level of individual social mobility .
18 There are a few signs of that fierce screwing up of feudal payments characteristic of the later stages of the ancien régime in France ; in Catalonia , for instance , a steady increase in the price of the farms of feudal dues overtook the rise in agricultural prices .
19 If the background disturbance level is large , some of the later stages may be triggered directly without the earlier stages having appeared .
20 In the cases we have considered so far — boundary layer transition and pipe flow transition — the main feature of the later stages was the spreading of localized regions of turbulence .
21 The collapse of a star to form a black hole is rather like the later stages of the collapse of the whole universe .
22 Later , the processes slow down with the shift to increased differentiation with a rapid fall in mitotic index in both embryo and fetal membranes after day 14 , thus it becomes difficult to obtain chromosome preparations from the later stages , particularly shortly preceding birth .
23 In the later stages of an attack , strands called rhizomorphs develop from the mycelium to convey moisture from the decomposing wood to sound timber many feet away , weeping ‘ tears ’ on to it until it , too , is subjugated and ripe for attack .
24 Even in the later stages of this game they continued to move the ball around despite circumstances requiring more solid one-man drives backed by dependable kicking .
25 The two Presidents would take part in the later stages of the commission 's work .
26 They liked Mr Major , whose performance visibly improved as his public assurance grew in the later stages of the campaign .
27 When grown on strong , very fertile land , barley tends to lodge ; it is therefore grown in the later stages of a rotation when the fertility has been reduced .
28 This route is direct but becomes tedious in the later stages .
29 The walk to Whernside 's top from Ingleton is a full day 's expedition , a test of stamina , with little of immediate interest in the later stages .
30 The bulldog calves are usually aborted in the later stages of the pregnancy and the syndrome is particularly seen where very short-legged types are favoured .
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