Example sentences of "early [adj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the early 1970s it became apparent that the Soviet Union had become engaged in a much more competitive effort to acquire overseas facilities for similar functions to American ones . |
| 2 | A further area for the media group to check is the loss of circulation due to strikes or other problems : during the continuing difficulties that beset Fleet Street in the early eighties it became standard practice for papers affected to provide a rebate for lost circulation . |
| 3 | For non-Nazi , ‘ national-conservative ’ power-élites in the economy and in the army , Hitler 's ‘ charisma ’ had in itself never been a decisive factor , even though by the early 1930s it seems clear that substantial sectors of especially the ‘ intellectual élite ’ had succumbed in varying degrees to the Führer cult . |
| 4 | In the early 1960s it became clear that compulsory continuing education was actually becoming a hindrance to recruitment . |
| 5 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |