Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] the late [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although interest in soil erosion has developed in the late 1970s ( e.g. Morgan , 1979 ) it is a paradox that earlier work , for example developing from the Universal Soil Loss Equation ( Wischmeier , 1976 ) , did not materialize . |
| 2 | Together with the credits provided by export credit agencies , much of it for military hardware , this policy has culminated in the late 1980s in the accumulation of a mountain of debt which can not be serviced on the original schedule of payments . |
| 3 | What Schumpeter ( 1942 ) called the ‘ march into socialism ’ seems to have slackened its pace ; and socialism , which appeared in the nineteenth century as the ideal image of an alternative society , providing an indispensable unifying element in working-class consciousness , has become in the late twentieth century a more problematic reality ( Stojanovic , 1973 ; Kolakowski and Hampshire , 1974 ; Parekh , 1975 ) . |
| 4 | Over recent years the literature on this has focused on the late Victorian period as the source of the problem [ Coleman , 1973 ; Weiner , 1981 ] . |
| 5 | Debate about the European fossil hominid record has concentrated on the Late Pleistocene interface between Neanderthals and early modern humans in the period between 40,000 and 30,000 years ago ( 40–30 kyr ) . |
| 6 | Newcastle and Glasgow would Appear to be in a somewhat better position , for although both have lost substantial numbers of jobs in manufacturing , a more optimistic picture has emerged in the late 1980s , based on public — private-sector investment and cultural developments . |
| 7 | Interest has increased in the late 1980s as the Superpowers have taken advantage of a period of detente to consider the viability of smaller defence establishments . |
| 8 | For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s . |
| 9 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |