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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/It was already in the 1950s that the most poignant difficulties emerged. The inability to deal with the demands of particular countries, such as those of the U.K., France and Italy, and also the continuing budget deficit caused by the ineffective common Agricultural Policy clearly characterised the subsequent stage of development. It extended from 1960 to 1980 and was characterised by an expansion to what then constituted a body of ten European countries. All the same, the membership of new countries only led to a growing division into the richer and poorer member states. Such disproportion resulted in a wide-spread disillusionment among the richer nations.