Example sentences of "at [adv] [prep] the early " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least since the early 1960s , the British countryside , from the Isle of Wight to the Scottish Highlands , has been host to what we Forteans call ABCs ( Alien Big Cats ) . |
| 2 | At least since the early 1970s successive governments have expressed concern about the decline of our inner cities , but no government has been prepared to devote the massive resources which are now required to overcome decades of neglect . |
| 3 | The transition from a ‘ corporate ’ team management to a more ‘ individual ’ single-authority general management seems likely to continue at least into the early 1990s . |
| 4 | Also avoided are comparisons in sound produced between modern piano wire ( which is never mentioned ) , the various carbon steels available for early instruments ( which are listed ) and the carbon-free phosphorus steel originally used , at least on the earlier instruments ( which are never referred to , but the relevant book by Goodway and Odell is in the bibliography ) . |
| 5 | I can not doubt that this peculiar method which gave such valuable results in water-colour , influenced Cézanne to apply it at least to the early stages of his oil paintings , and that gradually it grew to be his habitual practice in the succeeding period . |
| 6 | There was still much confused thinking , at least until the early 1960s , about selection . |
| 7 | At least until the early 1970s , however , the government made no systematic attempt to shape the pattern of industry . |
| 8 | The principles which I have just stated had come to be broadly accepted , at the level of the Court of Appeal , at least by the early part of this century . |
| 9 | In Italy the regime worked , at least in the early stages . |
| 10 | Performance , however , at least in the early days was misinterpreted . |
| 11 | In most cases , at least in the early stages , the patient needs help when transferring onto a commode or toilet , so there also has to be space for the carer . |
| 12 | But it seems to have corresponded , at least in the early years , more with the older political boundaries than with the administrative frontier of modern Sussex . |
| 13 | An intermediary can keep its client 's name secret , at least in the early stages . |
| 14 | The computer operator is entirely dependent on the manual , at least in the early stages of gaining familiarity with the system and its functions . |
| 15 | On the one hand there have been those who have claimed that , at least in the early days , the campaign was no more than the minority group Moral Re-Armament ( MRA ) by a different name ; on the other there is Mrs Whitehouse herself , who clearly believes that the organisation represents the ‘ silent majority ’ in the country . |
| 16 | For one group , the social options available to the user actually expanded , at least in the early stages . |
| 17 | While one interviewee described it as meeting monthly ( at least in the early stages of the project ) , the chairperson recalled it meeting in full committee on only a handful of occasions , with the bulk of the work being undertaken by individual members in liaison with the academic and pastoral divisions they represented . |
| 18 | It may also be that such employers were , at least in the early 1970s , less prepared to make the organizational adjustments which make it feasible for mothers to combine paid work with responsibility for young children . |
| 19 | Historical understanding ( at least in the early stages of exploring a topic ) often depends upon your ability to recognise the ways in which people , ideas or events are similar and different . |
| 20 | In the first place , the legibility of this canvas demonstrates conclusively that although Cubist paintings were becoming more abstract in appearance , the artists were still deeply conditioned , at least in the early stages of their works , by the material existence and the physical appearance of their subjects . |
| 21 | The organism induces decreased acid secretion , at least in the early phase of the disease but this may persist for weeks or even months . |
| 22 | Even the size of the sheets of paper on which the tsar 's letters were written varied , at least in the early seventeenth century , according to the status of the ruler to whom they were addressed . |
| 23 | This process of interaction is for Marx and Engels both a source of conceptualization and also of a sort of natural religion , at least in the earlier stages of evolution . |
| 24 | George Stephen , moreover , agreed with his brother that , at least in the earlier stages of antislavery , exceptional individuals rather than reform associations shaped the movement for change . |
| 25 | Admittedly the time given to the children will replace time previously taken up by her career , at least in the earlier stages of family life ( later she may resume her occupation with double demands upon her attentions ) . |
| 26 | Greek tragedy , he impressed on his audience , had been a total art form , a Gesamtkunst ( Wagner 's slogan , although Wagner 's name was not mentioned ) , to suit an age of whole men:a poetic drama that made use of architecture ( the theatre ) , painting ( scenery and costume ) , song , dance and music ; a drama created amid " perfection and harmony " by " artistic man " , who , at least in the earlier part of the fifth century , the time of Aeschylus , was poet , composer , conductor , producer and actor in one ; a drama performed at the communal festival of Dionysus before an audience which brought to the theatre something of the instinctive , rapturous spirit from which , in the Dionysiac celebrations , tragedy had originated in the first place . |
| 27 | Moreover these inadequate wages were often months in arrears , and were paid , at least in the earlier years of the century , not in cash but in tickets which could be cashed only at the Navy Office in London . |