Example sentences of "[noun] in the early [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After becoming a socialist in the early 1880s he retained what he called ‘ an Englishman 's wholesome horror of government interference and centralisation . ’ |
| 2 | During the late 1580s , Hooker became involved in a bitter theological dispute with the Presbyterian , Walter Travers , and as a result in the early 1590s he retired to a country living in Wiltshire to compose a literary apologia for the church which had been created in 1559 . |
| 3 | When Frankenberg went to carry out anthropological research in a village on the Welsh borders in the early 1950s he found that the village football team provided ‘ a symbol of village unity and cohesion against the outside world ’ and had ‘ a central place in village social activity ’ . |
| 4 | A further area for the media group to check is the loss of circulation due to strikes or other problems : during the continuing difficulties that beset Fleet Street in the early eighties it became standard practice for papers affected to provide a rebate for lost circulation . |
| 5 | On one occasion in the early 1880s she was persuaded to address male students at Edinburgh University medical school . |
| 6 | Sometimes self-discovered methods were used : for example , after an epidemic of lead poisoning in Sheffield in the early 1890s it was noted that those who were poisoned had aborted . |
| 7 | After work in several London hotels and gambling clubs in the early '80's he bought a pub and when this failed he found himself waiting at Phyllis Court before coming to the Golf Club . |
| 8 | My trawl of invisibility in the Art Index has confirmed that until women became identified with feminism in the early 1970s they were as neutralised as their practice . |
| 9 | You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman ! |
| 10 | The Chagga of Kilimanjaro were perhaps the group most fiercely opposed to the increased use of Swahili , but when they elected their paramount chief in the early 1950s they were unable to agree on which of the Chagga dialects to adopt as their common language , and they , too , adopted Swahili . |
| 11 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |