Example sentences of "a [det] [noun pl] early the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore difficult for him to appreciate the general view of the Service , that , on his return … he must re-establish his professional standing , even though a few years earlier the Service had sent him to University because he had proved himself to be a good , practical policeman . |
| 2 | A few years earlier the reddish-yellow Sheeted Somerset , which probably became extinct before 1890 , had been described as a mainly polled breed remarkable for nothing except its coat pattern : the belted pattern became popular among those who liked decorative livestock in their parks . |
| 3 | A few years earlier the judge observed of a 17-year-old girl who was raped by a motorist with whom she hitched a lift after being stranded following a party , that ‘ the victim was guilty of a great deal of contributory negligence ’ 1 . |
| 4 | ‘ A few seconds earlier the girls had been skipping and laughing . ’ |
| 5 | Only a few months earlier the USDOE had decided that the prospect of nuclear fusion by the ‘ conventional ’ route was still too many years away to meet the Pentagon 's urgent needs for tritium . |
| 6 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |