Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the development of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In a post-war broadcast in 1946 , he referred to the development of eight-feet wide trams with resilient wheels which he hoped to introduce to Blackpool , and these were manifested in the 1952 Coronation trams .
2 The demise of the flying boat came with the development of jets and the spread of concrete runways .
3 This process began with the development of transistors in the 1950's .
4 The mathematical precision which went into the development of hieroglyphics and the invention of paper resulted in an efficient and scientific method of building which still remains a mystery to modern day man .
5 THE heroic era of poliomyelitis research started with the isolation of the polio virus in monkeys by and in 1908 , and culminated in the development of vaccines protecting against this paralytic disease in the 1950s. , who died on 3 March , in Washington , was one of the heroes of this era .
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