Example sentences of "were [adj] [prep] the early " in BNC.

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1 They say fiscal policy is now highly stimulative , the world economy should be growing in 1993 and real interest rates were high throughout the early 1980s , as the Datastream/Robert Fleming graph shows .
2 Mother Shipton was a Welsh prophetess whose predictions were popular in the early nineteenth century .
3 All the subjects were ignorant of the earlier work at Yale .
4 The results and significance were similar for the earlier series although more pronounced ( Table III ) .
5 Neighbours were alarmed by the early morning gun attack .
6 They were likely in the early days to come from families connected with the trade , but as time went on , recruitment was wider .
7 They refused to accept Morgan 's assertion that the gens and group marriage were characteristic of the earlier human societies .
8 The cuts were considerable in the early years of the Conservative Government when the country was suffering a deep recession .
9 Stability problems were evident in the early development stage .
10 Long , regimented hours , more formal discipline and danger from unguarded machinery all imply differences in form and intensity which were not hidden from medical men who were familiar with the early factories .
11 Additional miniature bull-runnings , sponsored by public houses , were common in the early nineteenth century and the organisation of the festival transferred to the poorer areas of the town .
12 Continental manufacturers like Ferrari , Mercedes-Benz and Maserati were invincible in the early years of the championship but , when the first championship for manufacturers was introduced in 1958 , it was the British-made Vanwall that took the title .
13 The two men fell silent as they cantered their horses between low hedgerows that were bright with the early spears of foxgloves .
14 The fact is that neither congress nor the American people were ready in the early 1980s for the demolition of the welfare state , however much conservative theorists might believe that to be desirable .
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