Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] the early " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where , say , tench are concerned , you can confidently expect tench in the early morning and know your chances are practically non-existent in the afternoon , which is the case on almost all tench waters . |
| 2 | Data from the early 1980s indicate that 40 per cent of Afro-Caribbean households and 30 per cent of Asian households send money to dependants , compared with 5 per cent of white households ( Brown , 1984 , p. 232 ) . |
| 3 | The findings also supported this author 's conclusion in a review of data in the early 1960s , that the further along the socio-economic scale one went , the more were entertainment and relaxation the motives for newspaper-reading ( Seymour-Ure , 1968 ) . |
| 4 | She had played an important part in the long series of struggles between France and the Habsburgs which dominated the age of Charles V. By the early seventeenth century France , England , Venice and the United Provinces were all maintaining permanent representatives in Constantinople ( though the English and Dutch ones were commercial rather than diplomatic agents ) . |
| 5 | He has also been asked to play the lead in an Italian mini-series about the early life of Mussolini , a story which traces the Italian dictator 's transition from humble socialist mine worker to the power-mad founder of the fascist Blackshirts . |
| 6 | A pilgrimage to Jerusalem would have seemed infinitely remote to most adventurous folk in the early Middle Ages . |
| 7 | A few groups of migrants , notably among Germans and Scandinavians , who went to the Great Lakes area of the United States , or the earlier Scots settlers in Canada , exchanged a poor agricultural milieu for a better one : only 10 per cent of the foreign immigrants in the United States in 1880 were in agriculture , mostly not as farmers ‘ possibly ’ , as an observer claimed ‘ on account of the capital required to purchase and stock a farm ’ , ’ the equipment of which alone was reckoned to cost $900 in the early 1870s . |
| 8 | Brad Beitel , the chief technical officer is a 25-year IBM veteran who has focused on multimedia since the early 1980s . |
| 9 | A similarly-sized issue was announced at 8.30 am , while the Bank was also making unofficial sales during the early hours . |
| 10 | Her involvement in many issues prompted Bill Clinton to tell people during the early Democratic primaries that if they elected him , they would get Hillary too . |
| 11 | Kahnweiler linked the names of Picasso and Braque together seriously in Der Weg zum Kubismus , written in 1915 though not published until 1920 , but general recognition of their collaboration dates from the Kahnweiler and Uhde sales of the early 1920s when their pre-war Cubism could be seen together in large quantities for the first time . |
| 12 | Because they made a crap single called ‘ We Do n't Need This Fascist Groove Thang ’ , another case of right sentiments , horrible attitude , and because they included ex-members of The Human League , League 17 were patronised heavily by the media in the early '80s . |
| 13 | The common belonged to the people until the early 1970s when it was taken over by the council . |
| 14 | The local jute industry employed forty thousand people in the early years of the present century . |
| 15 | To anticipate that discussion , the available evidence suggests that elderly people , just like people in the early years of marriage , have always shared a home with relatives for instrumental reasons of a financial kind rather than by personal preference ( Wall , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | Much of the historical evidence presented in this chapter suggests that under the harsh conditions of poverty which prevailed for most people in the early industrial period , family relationships necessarily were highly instrumental , with support being offered only if there was some hope of mutual benefit precisely because anything else would have been an unaffordable luxury . |
| 17 | Characteristically , they ranged in size from about 1,000 to 4,000 people in the early years of Victoria 's reign , but the ones that were administrative , legal or ecclesiastical centres as well as market towns were sometimes larger than that . |
| 18 | Yes , that 's right , and in fact I , I was interested for erm even before I got interested in the Muddletonians in the way in which people in the early modern period were fascinated by the idea of Christ returning on earth a second time , on the millennium , and erm I wrote about that experience . |
| 19 | In the accompanying chairman 's statement , John Partridge said that the market for the year covered had been one the of the most difficult he had seen in thirty years of heading the company , with a particularly poor level of sales in the early summer months . |
| 20 | Even the radical unstamped press , which achieved remarkable sales in the early 19th century , failed to achieve this continuity and regularity of production . |
| 21 | Chief executive Tim Parker said sales in the early months of the current financial year had been encouraging and the kitchen appliance maker was cautiously optimistic . |
| 22 | Some of our major competitors actually forecast that they will exceed bar sales by the early 1990s . |
| 23 | As we have seen , it was not just the anthropology which he read at the time of composition which played its part in the great works of the early 1920s . |
| 24 | But the delicacy of small-scale work , and the demands upon skill made by the need to join exactly the pieced works of the early Empire were diminished . |
| 25 | I achieved around 18 mpg in the early model but can only manage 15 mpg in the ‘ 84 . |
| 26 | André Cluytens recorded Ravel 's orchestral works in the early 1960s and most of them , apart from his complete Daphnis et Chloë , have been packaged in an attractive set . |
| 27 | Stern , who is known for his sometimes brash self-promotion , anchored a television documentary series in the early 1980s , in which he attempted in a Bronowski-like way to explain the ascent of architecture in America . |