Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] early " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland 's only new acquisitions during the decade were twenty-one Class 318s , three-car versions of the Class 317 , to service the newly electrified Glasgow-Ayr/Largs routes , although 1989 also witnessed the first withdrawals proper ( apart from accident victims or asbestos units ) of the original Pressed Steel 1959 ‘ Blue Train' Class 303s , whose unrefurbished examples are due for early replacement by 100mph Class 321-type Class 320s . |
| 2 | The workforce of 8,000 before the revolution has been cut to 5,800 through early retirement and natural wastage ; even so , hundreds are on short-time , and sackings are inevitable . |
| 3 | To be sure of having bulbs in flower at Christmas , it is advisable to buy specially prepared ones which have been temperature-treated for early flowering . |
| 4 | 13 Engines will recall some of early '80s British bands like Echo and the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes , which is no bad thing , but their colonial roots make their sound inescapably one of the New World . |
| 5 | 13 Engines will recall some of early '80s British bands like Echo and the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes , which is no bad thing , but their colonial roots make their sound inescapably one of the New World . |
| 6 | This Queen Bee syndrome was very clear with early female psychoanalysts like Deutsch , Anna Freud , Klein , Mack Brunswick and Lampl-de-Groot , whose rivalry was intense ( Roazen 1985 ) . |
| 7 | She realized suddenly that the ground on which she stood , barefooted , was stone hard beneath grass barely damp with early dew . |
| 8 | If pruning is needed , do this in early spring . |
| 9 | It also helps to explain why late Monteverdi is so different from early Monteverdi . |
| 10 | As George Kennan has remarked , the heavy emphasis upon American air power was a characteristic error of the period ; the extent of the misjudgment became abundantly clear in early July 1950 . |
| 11 | This last , which was published weekly from early February 1834 until the end of May , has become the best-known of Doherty 's publications and is the least personal of all of them . |
| 12 | On the other hand , since nearly 80 per cent of the nation were illiterate in early NEP , consisting of a disorganized and fragmented peasantry , it has often been assumed that the actions of this class have been both unreflective and ineffective . |
| 13 | I 'm interested in early repeats , solos and free ascents and would particularly like to know if Harry Dover or Gilbert Ellis are still alive . |
| 14 | Though Scott was not particularly interested in early editions he nevertheless owned several . |
| 15 | This happens , for instance , when the volkstümlich tunes so popular in early nineteenth-century bourgeois domestic song ( where they signify according to romantic conceptions of nation and community ) are used by working-class singers for disaster ballads ; when sentimental Tin Pan Alley ballad melody is ‘ gospelized ’ by Ray Charles or Otis Redding ; or when the heavy four-four of the quick march ( goose step ? ) is appropriated by the early punk bands as a mode of critique . |
| 16 | Small bowel biopsy and abdominal computed tomography are essential but often unhelpful in early diagnosis . |
| 17 | James — ‘ Deaf ’ Burke , or the ‘ Deaf 'Un ’ as he was generally known was born in Westminster , London on 8th December 1809 , and became orphaned in early childhood . |
| 18 | The low birthweight may be caused by external factors , such as smoking during pregnancy ; premature babies , which may result from insufficient standards of antenatal care , will be highly prone to early infection . |
| 19 | It is now well established that diabetics are prone to early atherosclerosis ( Epstein et al , 1965 Pirart , 1978 ; Kannel & McGee , 1979 ) which appears no different from that in non-diabetics ( Robertson & Strong , 1968 ) . |
| 20 | Age : late 30s to early 40s . |
| 21 | I admit Victor is evasive at times , but we have known one another since early childhood , we are as close as brother and sister — ’ |
| 22 | Fine Art Facsimile Publishers of Lucerne have produced a high quality reproduction of the late fourteenth to early fifteenth-century manuscript illuminated in The Hague during the reign of Albrecht of Bavaria whose court was based in that city . |
| 23 | Ruben and Rapin ( 1980 ) , in a thorough review of the literature , show that development of auditory perception is crucially dependent on early stimulation . |
| 24 | Eliott Abrams , 43 , assistant secretary of state from 1985 to early 1989 , pleaded guilty in a federal court on Oct. 7 to two charges of illegally withholding information from Congress about covert US support for contra rebels in Nicaragua . |
| 25 | Because we had evidence that memories of the exercise tended to fade quickly , it was decided to exclude schools which had submitted reports at the very earliest stage ( autumn 1980 to summer 1981 ) , and schools which were not due to submit reports until the last stage of the first cycle ( autumn 1985 to early 1986 ) were also excluded because they could not be expected to have made much of a start on the process . |
| 26 | Armed forces : The Gibraltar Regiment ( totalling 53 members in 1988 ) and Royal Navy Reserve Unit ; 1,700 British military personnel ( 1989 ) , to be reduced by nearly half by early 1991 [ see also below ] . |
| 27 | SET IN the dipping wooded hills of Lambton Park , through which the wide and tidal Wear cuts a deep valley , this grandest of early Georgian houses looks south down a long wide avenue , smothered solid with daffodils in the spring . |
| 28 | A snipe 's drumming is one of the nicest of early year sounds . |
| 29 | Gundobad had contemplated conversion to catholicism , and Sigismund was already a catholic by 515 , when he founded one of the most prestigious of early medieval monasteries , that of St Maurice at Agaune . |
| 30 | MacKinnon 's further suggestion that the social life of the orang-utan could resemble that of early arboreal ape ancestors and to antedate the more terrestrial adaptations of the chimpanzee and gorilla seem borne out by the most recent studies . |