Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] early [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FAMILY records in Scotland dating back to the early 1800s have played an important role in an international effort to learn more about an inherited form of breast and ovarian cancer . |
| 2 | This important collection increases the Museum 's geographical and subject coverage and comprises of approximately 70,000 images including views of locomotives , rolling stock , moving trains , railway architecture and civil engineering subjects dating back to the early 1900's . |
| 3 | PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’ |
| 4 | Data collected by the RIBA shows that there has been a gradual fall in profit margins dating back to the early 1970s . |
| 5 | Some are originals from the 2 million documents dating back to the early 1600s which are stored in the Hydrographic Office , and some are sophisticated copies made from the originals used 50 years ago . |
| 6 | The aircraft that this intrepid group had used was a large lumbering biplane dating back to the early 1930s . |
| 7 | The lesson , in my view is clear : neither to stand still and simply change leader ; nor , certainly , to go lurching back to the early 1980s , but to continue and intensify the process of change . |
| 8 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 9 | The government 's initial failure to hold spending down in the early 1980s was not for lack of trying . |
| 10 | The overall trajectory since the early nineteenth century seems to be a rough U-shape : falling down to the early 1900s , a plateau until the mid-1950s , and a steepening rise since then . |