Example sentences of "years [prep] the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The canal 's purpose was to link the Stroudwater Navigation with the Thames and thus provide an inland waterway from the Black Country to London via the Severn , but it was never a commercial success and was finally abandoned in the early years of the present century . |
| 2 | The local jute industry employed forty thousand people in the early years of the present century . |
| 3 | In Sweden , for instance , a strong employers ' confederation enforced managerial prerogatives from the early years of the present century , prerogatives which were also supported by the legal framework until the law was changed in 1977 ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 4 | Such technical control was first developed in the mechanised , mass-production industries in the United States during the 1890s and early years of the present century , as epitomised in the steel mills . |
| 5 | Besides , such a prolific writer could hardly be ignored and his popularity moved through many decades by its own momentum , rather as Enid Blyton 's has done in the middle years of the present century . |
| 6 | Further , as Jenkins and Sherman ( 1979 ) point out , the public sector has been a relatively fruitful domain for ‘ white collar ’ union organisation since the early years of the present century . |
| 7 | By the early years of the present century the mathematical properties of Riemann spaces had been extensively studied and this material was available for Einstein to use . |
| 8 | Thus ‘ size ’ is partly dependent on shape , a fact which was gradually recognized during the early years of the present century . |
| 9 | The mean age difference between old and young subjects in this study , however , was 24 years compared with 50 years in the present study . |
| 10 | Al-Lurd was Lord Cromer , the man who had run Egypt for over twenty years before the present incumbent . |
| 11 | About forty years before the present day , Belegar attempted to break the deadlock with aid from the north . |