Example sentences of "early [noun pl] [prep] the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The County Museum , in a fine town house with a pleasant garden , has permanent display galleries which tell the story of Oxfordshire — its people , buildings and landscapes — from early times to the present day , and a changing programme of temporary exhibitions . |
| 2 | It was only during the early decades of the present century that English studies ( or , more simply , " English " ) in its recognizably modern disciplinary form began to offer an educationally significant challenge to the intellectual and cultural prestige long invested in classics . |
| 3 | One of the most important of these ‘ eruptions ’ occurred in the latter decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the present century when the fabulous wealth of plants in the Chinese hinterland was made known to the West by French missionaries and British and European hunters . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The local jute industry employed forty thousand people in the early years of the present century . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thus ‘ size ’ is partly dependent on shape , a fact which was gradually recognized during the early years of the present century . |
| 11 | Earlier discussion of the statistical behaviour of extreme values in the tails of distributions has shown that they are unreliable predictors of the behaviour of large samples , and if the core set of journals for Scottish geology is in the tail , then extreme caution must be used in interpreting SCI data , particularly from the early theses in the present study . |