Example sentences of "[art] late [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet Union had remained a Utopian ideal to the Left even during the vicissitudes of the late 1920s and the collectivization and famine during the First Five Year Plan . |
| 2 | Laud altered the internal lay-out of Gloucester Cathedral while dean of that diocese , and as Bishop of London he launched a nationwide appeal in the late 1620s for the repair of St Paul 's Cathedral in London , which was on the point of collapse , entrusting major restoration work to the classical architect , Inigo Jones . |
| 3 | But it was not until the late 1970s that the accounting profession became involved . |
| 4 | My own interest in this began in the late 1970s as the situation was beginning to worsen . |
| 5 | With the widening of the income range between social groups since the late 1970s and the government 's emphasis on restricting public spending and encouraging privatization , there are signs that these geographical differences have widened over the past decade ( see Bradford and Burdett ( 1989 ) and Curtis and Mohan ( 1989 ) for reviews ) . |
| 6 | IT WAS IN THE LATE Sixties that the expression ‘ nostalgia movies ’ — and its more subtle French equivalent la mode réto — first gained currency . |
| 7 | This is not in terms of methodology , I hasten to add , for I learned by first-hand practice in the late 1960s that the application of scientific methods of investigation in the so-called ‘ agricultural-botany ’ model had little value in developing understanding in education . |
| 8 | This is not in terms of methodology , I hasten to add , for I learned by first-hand practice in the late 1960s that the application of scientific methods of investigation in the so-called ‘ agricultural-botany ’ model had little value in developing understanding in education . |
| 9 | This became an emergent feature of British ( and other European ) inclusive tour companies in the late 1960s as the expansion of charter non-scheduled activity gained momentum . |
| 10 | The 20 year interval between the first influx of nuclear workers in the late 1950s and the cluster of cases near Dounreay beginning in 1979 could not readily be explained since the excesses usually followed fairly quickly on other types of population mixing . |
| 11 | Some development economists , hitting at the liberal dogmatism of the Bank and the Fund , were arguing in the late 1980s that the choice was not a simple either- or choice between Import Substitution or Export promotion . |
| 12 | Fear of unemployment is probably doing more than anything to hold back consumers from increasing their spending , and that is compounded by their desire to pay down debt after getting their fingers burned in the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s . |
| 13 | The crisis compounded the country 's serious economic difficulties caused by the overheating of the economy in the late 1980s and the collapse of Soviet export markets . |
| 14 | It was only in the late 1890's that the company extended its activities into gold mining . |
| 15 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 16 | The image of the miners as gladiators for women during the Grunwick strike by Asian women in London in the late seventies and the hospital workers ' strikes during the early eighties veiled their reservations about the rights of women in general , which have been entrenched in the culture of their community . |
| 17 | A good deal of research carried out in Britain and elsewhere between the late 1940s and the present chiefly by industrial sociologists and psychologists , demonstrates fairly conclusively that a high proportion of people in their sixties and seventies can work effectively at their accustomed or preferred occupation , even when this is physically quite heavy or makes significant intellectual demands . |