Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [num ord] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ We are in the first stages of saturation coverage . |
| 2 | Now that is over we are in the third stage . |
| 3 | By this time the woman will be into the second stage of labour . |
| 4 | The parricide probably occurred in different parts of the globe , where groups were at the first stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens , It is probable that the killing was done , although Freud is not insistent on the point , if the horror of the actual deed has been faced emotionally and the resistance to the idea that it was a deed is not based on emotional resistances . |
| 5 | It is in the next stage , from the age of about twelve years , that children develop the skills of formal thought and logical reasoning . |
| 6 | There are holes in your pullover , your Barbour is in the last stage of decrepitude and your trousers ca n't have been near a press in months . |
| 7 | It was in the next stage , when writing came to carry an increasing proportion of law , learning , religion and history , previously carried in oral forms , that very marked cultural divisions , already socially present in preliterate societies , became , as it were , technically stabilized . |
| 8 | The other girls followed suit , and the waitress , after a moment 's hesitation , wrung in turn the outstretched hands before hurrying off to attend to the needs of a customer who , to judge by his impatience , was in the last stages of starvation . |