Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] early [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This is very unusual , for most livebearers normally have fry during the night , or in the early hours of the morning .
2 Return will be on Sunday , 2 May , late evening or in the early hours of Monday morning .
3 ‘ They come in the night or in the early hours of the morning , ’ Bimal told me .
4 He said someone who was in the area last Friday night or in the early hours of Saturday must have seen the two attackers .
5 The GEP is aimed at individuals with a viable business project that may be at the planning stage or in the early stages of trading .
6 ‘ When I was at university , doing my professional training or in the early years of practice , I always worked with women women solicitors , women bankers and so on .
7 They were written either while he was on solo trips to London or elsewhere , or in the early days of the war when he was in the RAF .
8 But any economy that was made or in the early days of Hector 's er business , I know , was always saving material rather than time .
9 L think most people felt that during the early stages of the miners , strike the British Coal balance with Scargill was not strong enough .
10 Although during the early years of the century the CHA attracted an increasing membership , Leonard was concerned at its failure to fulfil its founding aims .
11 Another possible implication is that into the early years of the next century fewer old people will lack kin support or would be living alone than is often assumed .
12 It has also to be remembered that although in the early years of the twentieth century , the advanced countries of the western European industrial ‘ base ’ ( Great Britain , Germany , France , Belgium and Luxembourg ) still provided the bulk of European production , industry was growing in other countries .
13 Since her election in 1986 , President Corazon Aquino had maintained a deliberately ambiguous stance over the bases ; although in the early years of her term she suggested some opposition to the US presence , this position had been weakened when US aircraft from the bases had played an essential role in Aquino 's defeat of a serious right-wing military coup attempt in December 1989 [ see pp. 37120-21 ] .
14 It is possible , though , that in the early stages of training you may feel that all your creative skill is being stripped from you , and that the whole system is ganging up on you .
15 He suggested that in the early stages of the industrial system , tactics like machine-breaking by agricultural labourers may indeed have reflected a clash between workers ‘ traditionalistic outlook ’ and the new methods of technical efficiency .
16 Modern research confirms that in the early stages of acquiring a complex competence , the learner benefits from close guidance from the instructor , but this could not take place overtly without disruption in the case of teaching .
17 This means that in the early stages of a project the components tested will be very rudimentary .
18 Day stated that in the early hours of the morning he had been awakened by Henry and Francis Tidbury .
19 But Ted Hudson and other signalmen like him know that in the early hours of a winter 's morning a visitation from Aubrey Clark 's ghost is a real and frightening possibility .
20 The prosecution also alleged that in the early hours of Nov. 24 , 1986 , when investigators began searching the National Security Council offices for documents relating to the affair , Poindexter had erased more than 5,000 files from the memory of his computer .
21 Storrie admitted that in the early hours of 17 May last year he robbed the two 19-year-olds of £7 and a watch after seizing the man in Wilson Street , Glasgow , and threatening to stab him .
22 It is clear from Clarkson 's History that in the early years of the anti-slave trade agitation local organisations were established through existing religious networks ( an example would be the Quaker Lloyds in Birmingham ) or contact by Clarkson or others with a small group of prominent individuals who already had an interest in the issue .
23 There can be no doubt that in the early years of the twentieth century the use of revolvers was widespread among adult mobsters in London 's criminal underworld , and that feuds between rival outfits were not uncommonly settled by gun battles in the open streets .
24 It has been estimated that in the early years of civil registration in some parts of England up to 15 per cent of births were not registered .
25 So on first consideration it seems odd that in the early days of planning The Possessed Dostoevsky should write to his friend Maikov and describe his new venture as ‘ like Crime and Punishment but even nearer to reality , even more urgent , and directly concerned with the most important contemporary question ’ .
26 Polgar told me that in the early days of his marriage he examined the childhood of many famous persons and saw that geniuses all specialised in a field very early .
27 I was told that in the early days of tape , three weeks ' work in Europe was wiped when , as the White Cliffs of Dover came into sight , the bag containing them was put down in front of the rotating aerial .
28 Major Roger Crees , the present clerk to the captains , told me that in the early days of the composite bow — which is made up of two or more materials glued together — the glues were not to be relied upon .
29 Insignia Solutions Ltd , High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , is reminding the world that in the early days of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , all anyone will be able to use in it is Insignia 's SoftPC — integrated within NT to provide the MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows emulation environment that must suffice for almost all users until 32-bit applications come along — in the version of NT that supports the R-series and Alpha chips , Insignia emulates the iAPX-86 CPU and other hardware including graphics boards , disk controllers and floppy disk drives .
30 Insignia Solutions Ltd , High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , is reminding the world that in the early days of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , all anyone will be able to use in it is Insignia 's SoftPC — integrated within NT to provide the MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows emulation environment that must suffice for almost all users until 32-bit applications come along — in the version of NT that supports the R-series and Alpha chips , Insignia emulates the iAPX-86 CPU and other hardware including graphics boards , disk controllers and floppy disk drives .
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