Example sentences of "late [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems to have entered the paper-making trade in the late 1830s at a boom time and eventually owned six paper-mills in Kent and Buckinghamshire , branching out from the family businesses of coal and timber merchants and , especially , seed crushing . |
| 2 | The company also says it is planning a link to IBM Corp 's DB/2 mainframe database in late 1993 in an attempt to attract AS/400 users . |
| 3 | The brief memories written for R. L. Watson in the late 1940s by the poet 's second and third brothers say nothing about this period . |
| 4 | The Azaña coalition reached its apogee in late 1932 with the defeat of Sanjurjo 's rising and the passage of both the Agrarian Reform Act and the Catalan Statute . |
| 5 | Our first venture into the CIS took place in late 1992 with an award to undertake an ambient air quality study of the world 's largest gas field in Kazakhstan . |
| 6 | The powers involved were under Section 52 of the 1971 Town and Country Planning Act : however , subsequent intervention in late 1981 by the Secretary of State for the Environment appears to have prevented planners from being able to specify the nature of occupiers of new housing . |
| 7 | Major debates have been held since the late 1970s over the future of wetlands in Sussex , Somerset , Yorkshire , and East Anglia . |
| 8 | New technology arrived for computer manuals in the late 1970s with the use of microfiche as an alternative to hard copy . |
| 9 | He started the visit on Jan. 19 in Shenzhen , one of China 's five special economic zones ( SEZs ) established in the late 1970s as a showcase for Dengist economic reforms . |
| 10 | ( On July 31 Diestel announced that the freedom of 33,000 East German political prisoners had been brought by West Germany since 1964 initially at a price of around DM40,000 each and since the late 1970s at a price of DM95,847 . ) |
| 11 | The Sistren Theatre Collective , started in Jamaica in the late 1970s by a group of chronically employed and underemployed women , is today a permanent feature of the popular communications environment in Jamaica . |
| 12 | The lobon-gur solution described above was a prototype used by BRAC in the late 1970s in a pilot programme which lasted 12 months . |
| 13 | This branch of John Smiths augurs better for the company that the ill-fated Volumes , opened in Queen Street in the late '80s as a gesture against invasion by the groups . |
| 14 | Soviet governments returned in late 1918 with the end of the war , but fled early in 1919 , when British naval forces in the Baltic landed to establish a base in Estonia , providing the White forces with an opportunity to attack Petrograd . |
| 15 | As students , McLaren and Reid became enamoured of Situationism , a philosophy spawned in the late Fifties by a group of European artists and intellectuals which advocated the overthrow of capitalism by shock , scandal and pranks . |
| 16 | Unlike many former models , she enjoyed real success in the late Eighties as a pop star . |
| 17 | The parent company as it now exists was formed in the late 1960's by a merging of several aero engine manufacturers . |
| 18 | This concept of proportionality was to become one of the key issues in the debates in the late 1920s regarding the formulation of the Soviet First Five Year Plan , as we shall see . |
| 19 | Marie Enge was a tall , good-looking woman in her late twenties with the kind of physical presence that most men found daunting . |
| 20 | Today 's jewel in the crown , the pharmaceuticals business , began in the late 1930s as an offshoot of the dyestuffs division — the chemistry of the two areas being closely related — and did not achieve organisational independence until 1957 . |
| 21 | From the late 1850s to the revolution , controversy over student fees , police brutality , or interference by the authorities — be it with the freedom of speech of progressive professors , the content of the curriculum , or the right of students to form their own organizations — sparked recurrent outbursts of student protest . |
| 22 | This aircraft is now confirmed at P1344 , built in late 1939 as a Mk I at Cricklewood . |
| 23 | It was originally invented in the late 1960s in an attempt to find a theory to describe the strong force . |
| 24 | They came to roost in the late 1960s in the form of industrial decline and regional decay . |
| 25 | Polish-Jewish relations continued to suffer major strains in late 1989 as a result of the Auschwitz convent controversy [ see . |
| 26 | Originally proposed by French President Mitterrand and approved by the EC in late 1989 following the collapse of the communist regimes of eastern Europe [ see pp. 37028 ; 37132 ] , the EBRD was formally inaugurated in April 1991 [ see p. 38155 ] . |
| 27 | Despite a failure to negotiate a comprehensive peace settlement for Cambodia during the second Jakarta Informal Meeting ( JIM ) in February 1989 [ see p. 36464 ] and during the Paris conference on Cambodia in August [ see pp. 36848-49 ] , certain concessions offered in late 1989 by the resistance groups and the Phnom Penh government indicated that a political solution to the Cambodian problem might be taking shape [ for acceptance in January 1990 of an Australian peace proposal by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council see pp. 37186-87 ] . |
| 28 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 29 | Relations with the USA deteriorated sharply in late 1990 over the issue of alleged Libyan involvement in the overthrow of President Hissène Habré of Chad . |
| 30 | A new political force emerged in late 1990 as a result of disagreements over policy and coalition alliances in Sicily . |