Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] the early [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | However , it should also be noted that the interval between marriage and the birth of the first child has lengthened since the early seventies . |
2 | The PLCND group has campaigned since the early 1980s for the unconditional removal of all British and American nuclear weapons from UK territory . |
3 | The restoration of the warehouse and the adjoining 457m ( 500yd ) length of canal is viewed with enthusiasm by the Wey and Arun Canal Trust , a society which has worked since the early 1970s for the complete restoration of the Arun Navigation and the Wey and Arun Junction Canal between Pallingham and the River Wey , and which has restored the opportunity for navigation to several stretches of these waterways . |
4 | There is general , though not unanimous , agreement that profitability in British industry has declined since the early 1950s . |
5 | It has survived from the early 1930s because of its craggy independence , its non-institutional base , its ability to adapt to new social movements thrown up by the working-class and oppressed groups and , most important , its radical philosophy and perspective . |