Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the early [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not true of Cramlington , where the basic development programme laid down in the early 1960s has continued , with only two significant changes relating to the use of industrial land and the role of the shopping centre development . |
| 2 | An early regard for the quality of life was shown when the walls of the medieval town were pulled down in the early nineteenth century . |
| 3 | It seems that , although some substantial and long-standing export industries declined , others expanded their export sales over the post-war period ( although the rise slowed down in the early 1980s ) . |
| 4 | Revisionist work has still to be drawn together into a full-scale synthesis , in part no doubt , because the quantity of new doctoral research in the field slowed down in the early 1980s . |
| 5 | The government 's initial failure to hold spending down in the early 1980s was not for lack of trying . |
| 6 | No executions had been carried out since 1984 , and there were currently 287 people in prison waiting for parliament to confirm or commute their death sentences ( mostly handed down in the early 1980s ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 9 | The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century . |
| 10 | The rate of growth of agricultural output in the Meiji period is subject to considerable dispute , but it is probable that a rate of around 1.8 per cent annual growth in output was maintained through to the early 1900s at least , far outstripping the rate of population growth in the same period . |
| 11 | As for the records being destroyed , it is true nothing now predates 1465 , but early records certainly existed up until the early seventeenth century . |
| 12 | Wages councils , set up in the early 1900s , have no role to play in the 1990s , ministers argue . |
| 13 | The ILEA 's Alternative Use of Resources ( AUR ) Scheme , set up in the early 1970s , gave schools limited control over staffing and other parts of their budget . |
| 14 | Most of these were set up in the early 1970s , often from existing sites rather than de novo . |
| 15 | Thus , the Alliance for Progress , which gave rise to many agrarian reform programmes , was set up in the early 1960s . |
| 16 | In Liverpool , where I grew up in the early 1960s , one could no more not have an interest in football than fly to the moon . |
| 17 | Set up in the early 1960s , it was a three-year full-time course with four broad areas of specialization ; fine art , graphic design , three-dimensional design , and textiles/fashion . |
| 18 | Checkpoint Charlie , the crossing point set up in the early 1960s between East and West Berlin is to be opened to millions of people on Wednesday . |
| 19 | Shortly afterwards came the Chronica Gentis Scottorum of John of Fordun , again stressing the achievements of the Scots , and the villainy of Edward I. This was followed up in the early fifteenth century by the verse chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun , prior of Lochleven . |
| 20 | For funding reasons , health service membership of the teams was slow to build up in the early 1980s and key actors in the local health services were never entirely happy with the developmental role assigned to the CMHTs . |
| 21 | The village , which is home to 132 orphans , was set up in the early 1980s by Mr Mr John Foster , a teacher at the former Central Comprehensive School in Darlington . |
| 22 | Part of the palace was a rather plain , square , white building put up in the early 1960 's for stat visitors . |
| 23 | The village playing field stands opposite the old school and occupies the old titheyard where tithes were paid to the church up to the early 19th century . |
| 24 | It then reverted to flour milling and was producing flour and animal feed up to the early 1920s . |
| 25 | Lower Mill continued in sporadic use up to the early 1970s , when it was still used to grind animal feed for the adjacent farm . |
| 26 | The proportion in manufacturing was not out of line in international terms up to the early 1970s . |
| 27 | I pose this question because anyone who skied before the days of highbacked boots ( up to the early 1970s ) will recall skis that became cult objects for their qualities in ‘ cheating powder ’ . |
| 28 | In Scandinavia and North America it is rare for young people with severe disabilities to be expected to enter employment and to live independently until after education and training up to the early twenties . |
| 29 | Students with severe and profound disabilities and learning difficulties are entitled to attend high school up to the early twenties in the USA . |
| 30 | Firstly , the USA experienced low inflation in its economy up to the early 1960s due to ‘ conservative economic policies . |