Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] the early " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , when sport offers itself as one of the few accessible routes away from deprivation , as it was to the early slaves , it takes on an attractive quality . |
| 2 | If the polys are indeed achieving the parity of esteem they have long sought , their graduates ' relative position during the next recession should prove better than it was during the early 1980s . |
| 3 | It was during the early part of his occupation that the last of the Painswick cloth mills finally went out of business and a number of others , such as Damsell 's , were converted to other uses . |
| 4 | It was during the early 30s and on one of my annual visits to eastern Canada that I first became acquainted with that noted Canadian humorist , Dr.Stephen Leacock . |
| 5 | So it was from the early 1960s that his career became inextricably linked to its growing success . |
| 6 | The problem of servicing debt is already , in practice , less severe than it was in the early and mid 1980s . |
| 7 | That is not just because inflation is raging less fiercely than it was in the early 1980s , but also because of improvements in the way the labour market works . |
| 8 | There was , of course , talk of union all round ; it was in the early 1890s , as we have noted , that the historic divisions between General and Particular Baptists were finally consolidated into the Baptist Union . |
| 9 | This may very well have to be the hallmark of the future church in modernity , just as it was in the early days of Christian existence . |
| 10 | Data suggest that reductions in infant mortality rates outpaced those at a national level ; it was in the early postwar period that levels in West Ham fell below the national average for the first time . |
| 11 | It was in the early 1960s that , parallel to its growing emphasis on the ‘ disturbing activities ’ of working-class youth , the media also began to focus on minor incidents of soccer crowd violence . |
| 12 | It was in the early 1960s . |
| 13 | It is generally the present tense which is used when you describe a text , even when you describe it in terms which place it in the past ( e.g. by mentioning the author ) : In Los Gusanos ( 1991 ) John Sayles describes Miami as it was in the early 1980s . |
| 14 | IT WAS in the early afternoon when information was received at this desk about the plane . |
| 15 | Yeah a big , big black one well it looked black in it was in the early hours of this morning , you know , when the birds start flying about . |