Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in the late " in BNC.
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| 1 | May Sinclair stopped writing in the late 1920s . |
| 2 | They came to roost in the late 1960s in the form of industrial decline and regional decay . |
| 3 | Particularly impressive was the way in which the South East 's population began to decline in the late 1960s , following its rapid growth in the 1950s and the early 1960s . |
| 4 | Until the Ottoman empire began to decline in the late eighteenth century , Christian subjects in the Balkans were probably treated no worse than were the peasants of central Europe by their Christian feudal overlords . |
| 5 | This situation only started to change in the late 19th century as more excavators tried to understand what they were finding . |
| 6 | A good churchman , he is a Church Warden — but of a church that ceased to exist in the late 18th century . |
| 7 | Karajan did emerge in the late 1940s , none the less , as a musician capable of both exciting and shocking settled assumptions . |
| 8 | The Graduate would be financed and released by Embassy Pictures , the company Joseph E. Levine had formed in the late fifties to exploit cheap European spectacles such as the Hercules films with muscle-man Steve Reeves , which brought in millions of dollars . |
| 9 | The only clue had come in the late morning . |
| 10 | The Red Pied Swedish ( RSB ) had originated in the late nineteenth century from the use of Ayrshire and Shorthorn bulls from Britain on local Herrgård and Småland cows ; Ayrshires had been imported from Scotland from 1847 to 1907 and a Swedish Ayrshire cattle association was formed in 1899 . |
| 11 | Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic . |
| 12 | It drew upon a series of speeches he had made in the late autumn , particularly an address to an all-union student forum . |
| 13 | We were conscious of how far we were from the Rothern hut , and of how soft and how avalanche-prone the snow had become in the late afternoon . |
| 14 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 15 | Whereas Grierson had concluded in the late 1930s that ‘ in the commercial cinema there is no future worth saving , ’ Harry Watt hoped to ‘ crash the commercial cinemas ’ with story documentaries . |
| 16 | The pro-birth control movement had begun in the late nineteenth century with the formation of the Malthusian League and the trial and work of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh , events which encouraged the dissemination of knowledge about birth-control techniques . |
| 17 | Gehlen 's army career had begun in the late 1920s and as a staunch Nazi supporter he had enjoyed rapid promotion until he became military intelligence chief of Hitler 's Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East . |
| 18 | This dual process had begun in the late fifteenth century . |
| 19 | This had begun in the late thirteenth century , and the edicts were falling thick and fast under Philip the Fair in the early fourteenth century . |
| 20 | ‘ By that time , also , there were a lot of blues albums being reissued , like Otis Rush 's ‘ Groaning the Blues ’ which he had recorded in the late '50s with Ike Turner producing , and it had some of the best blues tunes on it , and some of the best playing I have ever heard . |