Example sentences of "that [vb past] [prep] the early " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rogers dipped a wing so that he could watch the aeroplane tumble away , lopsided , dwindling to a grey-brown fragment that flickered in the early sunlight . |
| 2 | Soon nitrogen , a trace gas that existed in the early Earth 's atmosphere in minute quantities , accumulated to become the dominant gas , largely because it does not combine readily with the other basic four , so it is not ‘ sunk ’ so easily . |
| 3 | Many , therefore , blamed Callaghan for the explosion in union wage claims that followed in the early seventies . |
| 4 | In 1958 William Burroughs had moved to Paris , where Allen Ginsberg had helped set up the ‘ Beat Hotel ’ that persisted into the early 1960s . |
| 5 | The commentary is accompanied by detailed reference to relevant earlier case law , the few judicial decisions relating to the Act that emerged in the early months of implementation , and a wealth of literary sources . |
| 6 | Hongkong Bank steered clear of the mania to lend to third-world countries that peaked in the early 1980s . |