Starting in 1938, Post Office Telephones laid dedicated cables, for numerous telephone and telegraph circuits, from the nearby repeater station at Fenny Stratford ( on Watling Street, the main road linking London to the north-west, later to be designated the A5 ).

Starting in the mid-1980s, the Baltic states used the reforms provided by glasnost to assert their rights to protect their environment ( for example during the Phosphorite War ) and their historic monuments and, later, their claims to sovereignty and independence.

Starting in the later part of the 18th century, there began a transition in parts of Great Britain's previously manual labour and draft-animal – based economy towards machine-based manufacturing.

Starting in Beethoven's later career, the fortepiano evolved into the modern piano as we know it today.

Starting with the Fairey Gyrodyne, this type of aircraft later evolved into the much larger twin-engined Fairey Rotodyne, that used tipjets to power the rotor on take-off and landing but which then used two Napier Eland turboprops driving conventional propellers mounted on substantial wings to provide propulsion, the wings serving to unload the rotor during horizontal flight.

* Starting in the year 309 BC, the later Chinese historian Sima Qian ( 145 BC – 90 BC ) wrote that the Qin-employed engineer Bi Ling of the newly conquered State of Shu in Sichuan had the shoulder of a mountain cut through, making the ' Separated Hill ' that abated the Mo River, and excavated two canals in the plain of Chengdu.

Starting with the 80486, in x86 chips the floating-point unit was integrated with the CPU, something true for almost all later x86-architecture processors.

Starting with the 1XB switch, the later and more common method was based on the link principle, and used the switches as crosspoints.

Starting at the Old State House, the road crossed the Connecticut River over the area that is now occupied by the Founders Bridge, initially by ferry and later by bridge.

Starting with the episode " The Thirty-Minute Work Week " and in later episodes, Wembley works with the fire department as their siren.

Starting no later than Robert Toll's Blacking Up ( 1974 ), a " third wave " has systematically studied the origins of blackface, and has put forward a nuanced picture: that blackface did, indeed, draw on African American culture, but that it transformed, stereotyped, and caricatured that culture, resulting in often racist representations of black characters.

Starting with his tenure at Allegheny Observatory in the Pittsburgh area in the late 1860s, Langley was a major player in the development of astronomically derived and regulated time distribution services in America through the later half of the 19th century.

Starting out as mostly men arriving first and then later on bringing their families over.

Starting out his athletic career as a boxer, Columbu progressed into the sport of Olympic Weightlifting, powerlifting and later bodybuilding, winning the title of Mr. Olympia in 1976 and 1981.

Starting from just a few kg before the event, maximum size had reached ~ 50 kg a few million years later, and ~ 750 kg by the end of the Paleocene.

Starting his career as a child actor in his uncle Nasir Hussain's film Yaadon Ki Baaraat ( 1973 ), Khan began his professional career eleven years later with Holi ( 1984 ) and had his first commercial success with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak ( 1988 ).

Starting with two Digital Tandem Switch ( DTS ) voice-switching systems designed specifically for them by the Collins Radio Company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa ( later a division of Rockwell International ), MCI began offering competitive circuit-switched direct-dial services using a combination of their own microwave circuits and leased circuits from AT & T made available to them from the landmark Carterfone decision.

Starting from Bengal in the later half of the 18th century, a series of battles for north Indian lands finally gave the British East India Company accession over the state's territories.

Starting in the 9th century, it was incorporated to English law, and it was later extended to most common law systems.

Starting with the success at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780 under then Colonel William Campbell ( he would later be appointed as a Brigadier General in 1781 ) the campaign changed.

Starting a revolution against it, which was forced to flee Mexico City and was killed a month later, the Plan de Agua Prieta used as a political banner of the 1917 Constitution, violated by Carranza.

Starting in the late 19th century, New York residents built summer homes on the shoreline, and even back then there were some who moved to Stamford permanently and started commuting to Manhattan by train, although the practice became more popular later.

Starting at the Bodhi Tree Annex in West Hollywood, he later moved them to the diocesan center in Los Angeles.

Starting with Pliny the Elder, later writers sometimes refer to Cato the Younger as " Cato Uticensis " (" the Utican ").

Starting in the Lombard period ( after 569 ), the area around Locarno ( and presumably the town ) was part of the county Stazzona and later the Mark of Lombardy.

Starting in the 1980s, an expanding community of neuroscientists and psychologists have associated themselves with a field called Consciousness Studies, giving rise to a stream of experimental work published in books, journals such as Consciousness and Cognition, and methodological work published in journals such as the Journal of Consciousness Studies, along with regular conferences organized by groups such as the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

Starting in the 1980s, many countries with large state-owned corporations moved toward privatization, the selling of publicly owned services and enterprises to corporations.

Starting in the 1980s, country music began a slow rise in the main pop charts.

Starting in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, several types of video production equipment were introduced, such as time base correctors ( TBC ) and digital video effects ( DVE ) units ( one of the former being the Thomson-CSF 9100 Digital Video Processor, an internally all-digital full-frame TBC introduced in 1980, and two of the latter being the Ampex ADO, and the Nippon Electric Corporation ( NEC ) DVE ).

Starting in the 1980s, a number of manufacturers also experimented with rivets in the lower cymbal.

Starting in the early 1980s, Mills, using the name " The Wizard ", was a recurring guest DJ on " The Electrifying Mojo " radio show on WJLB.

Starting in the 1980s, new snack restaurants started serving " Bocadillo " ( a Spanish word for a sandwich, widely used in Morocco ).

Starting in the late 1980s, however, there was a revolution in NLP with the introduction of machine learning algorithms for language processing.

Starting in the 1980s, the journal underwent a great deal of expansion, launching over ten new journals.

Starting in the early 1980s, water-blown microcellular flexible foams were used to mold gaskets for panel and radial seal air filters in the automotive industry.

Starting in the 1980s, the perfection of the extractor hood allowed an open kitchen again, integrated more or less with the living room without causing the whole apartment or house to smell.

Starting in the mid-1970s and continuing into the 1980s Rouse shifted focus to what he ended up calling the " festival marketplace ", of which the Faneuil Hall Marketplace was the first and most successful example.

Starting in the early 1980s, the number of Latinos, mostly of Mexican origin, began to increase in Oakland, especially in the Fruitvale district.

Starting in 1954 with a modified Plymouth, the American car manufacturer Chrysler demonstrated several prototype gas turbine-powered cars from the early 1950s through the early 1980s.

Starting in the early 1980s, professional systems using a PCM adaptor were also common as mastering formats.

Starting in the 1980s, as their contribution to ozone depletion became known, their use was increasingly restricted, and they have now largely been replaced by HFCs.

Starting in the 1980s, Lebanon had a longtime association with the Babe Ruth League youth baseball program.

Starting in the 1980s but accelerating in the 1990s and 2000s a large number of houses were built in several estates to the south and southwest of the town infilling the farmland that used to exist between the town and the A12 bypass.

Starting in the early 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Europe saw the arrival of thousands of Chileans, many of whom were mestizos, seeking political refuge during the dictatorial government of Augusto Pinochet.

Starting in the late 1980s, John H. Boyd, a staff member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, consistently questioned the value of size and product diversification in banking.

Starting in the early 1980s and running through approximately 2001, BK engaged a series of ad agencies that produced many unsuccessful slogans and programs, including its biggest advertising flop " Where's Herb?

Starting in the 1980s, Cajun influence became important, spurred by the popular restaurant of Chef Paul Prudhomme.

Starting in the late 1970s and accelerating through the 1980s and 1990s many of these corporations were privatized, though many still remain wholly or partially owned by the respective governments.

Beginning in the early 1980s, however, her chart success began to wane, though, she did continue to have top-20 hits during this period, including " Starting Over " and " He Was There ( When I Needed You )" ( both 1980 ), a cover of the Everly Brothers ' hit " Crying in the Rain " ( 1981 ), " Another Chance ", " You Still Get to Me in My Dreams " ( both 1982 ) and " A Good Night's Love " ( 1983 ).

Starting in the late 1980s, the show began to lose affiliates, a victim of media consolidation and other changes in the radio industry that were pushing many alternative rock stations and individualistic broadcasters off the air.