Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at a early [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age .
2 It had also introduced postgraduate diplomas and higher doctorates to supplement the undergraduate , masters and doctoral degrees it had decided on at an early stage .
3 Plainly there are different degrees of misbehaviour and the partners will not readily resort to the extreme sanction of expulsion , but it is in the interests of the firm that a tendency to depart from proper professional standards be investigated and warnings handed down at an early stage before serious harm is done .
4 Through the provision of contracts on admission , and ongoing reviews of each resident 's career in the Home , difficulties might be ironed out at an early stage .
5 The snags can be ironed out at an early stage .
6 The management contractor , by being brought in at an early stage , will become involved in the design process in co-operation with the client 's designer .
7 Mozart 's hopes were set back at an early stage for on 29 September he reported a conversation with Prince Zeill who said the Elector had told him :
8 The government could have clamped down at an early stage with tough deflationary policies .
9 This allowed illegal letter strings to be ruled out at an early stage .
10 The Bank is considering the view of the IBOA to their proposals on Job Sharing and will revert back at an early date .
11 Bjornsson 's approach differed from that of many earlier researchers in two important ways : first , he set out at an early stage to make his formula one which would be useful for making cross-cultural comparisons , and second , he chose not to use the statistical technique of multiple regression .
12 This particular initiative in community education , although building on a period of active community involvement , set out at an early stage to involve local residents in controlling the educational programme and establishing a structure for participation which , it was hoped , would avoid the sort of elitism which beset the WEA .
13 One would have thought that the Great Depression years in the United States had provided a suitable testing ground for the efficacy of the real-balance effect , but , as Patinkin pointed out at an early stage in the development of the neoclassical synthesis , a large increase in real balances appeared to be accompanied by a large fall in output .
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