Example sentences of "[num] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even without the new technologies it seems unlikely that the macho-mean-streets style of journalism would have survived intact , given the Thatcherite focus on the spiritual ( and monetary ) values of hearth and home , together with soaring mortgage rates , the civilising influence of feminism and 80s ' health consciousness . |
| 2 | THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED DIARY OF A 70S ' TEENAGER |
| 3 | By the 1940s , government reports purported to consider the needs of the individual child , but as Ann Marie Wolpe has pointed out , prior assumptions were made as to the ‘ natural ’ interests of girls and boys and the destiny of girls as wives and mothers ; indeed , Miriam David has suggested that the 1940s ' curriculum was more differentiated than that of the 1930s . |
| 4 | Consequently 1940s ' optimism about a finite amount of ill-health and disease susceptible to a comprehensive health care system was seen to be false , based on erroneous concepts of health and illness . |
| 5 | BR 's own acknowledgement of the Class 40s ' popularity , and therefore revenue potential , was the renovation of the 1958 pioneer locomotive D200 to working order , and original livery , for use on special trains for a full three years after the rest of the class had been retired . |
| 6 | Gareth Jenkins possessed one of the outstanding talents of his Seventies ' generation but injury prevented it demonstration at the very highest level and it is as a Scarlet , the epitome of Llanelli as player and coach , that he has always been seen and highly regarded . |
| 7 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 8 | THIS CURIOUSLY wart-like plastic troll ( right ) , currently clawing its way from Seventies ' oblivion to Nineties cool-kitsch , has had a boost from Wrangler . |
| 9 | FNFC , that star of the Seventies ' market crash started life as Birmingham Carriage and Wagon . |
| 10 | Seventies ' youth was full of uncertainties and tenderness which was reflected in the trend for romance and nostalgia , fabrics that swayed and moved ; women wanted to dress up . |
| 11 | The desire to ingratiate a way into the listener 's consciousness and thus inveigle an all-important content is the reason all these groups draw inspiration from Sinatra , Bacharach and David , Sondheim , Steely Dan , early seventies ' soul , to produce slick , crafted , sophisticated pop . |
| 12 | Marvin , of Underley Street , Liverpool 8 , plays with the Great Easton Under-10s ' team in the South Merseyside Junior League . |
| 13 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 14 | The late 1970s ' level of manufacturing investment stood as a record until 1987 . |
| 15 | ‘ You talk of the eight twelves ' energy bolts as if they were alive , ’ remarked Jinkwa . |
| 16 | ‘ Slade Alive ’ , what a brilliant album ! ’ gleams Gordon as he digs in early-'70s ' vinyl from behind a mound of Elvis ashtrays . |
| 17 | ‘ Slade Alive ’ , what a brilliant album ! ’ gleams Gordon as he digs in early-'70s ' vinyl from behind a mound of Elvis ashtrays . |
| 18 | LIBERALISATION has been one of the key concepts of eighties ' economics , a word which has acquired such power in Anglo-Saxon officialdom that there is virtually no argument about its virtues . |
| 19 | THESE Hartlepool lads throw everything into this two-track demo , and end up sounding like early Eighties ' pop combined with touches of Nineties ' hardcore . |
| 20 | These are the people who missed out on the Eighties ' boom and who are now being hit hardest by the recession . |
| 21 | Fifties ' pride possessed her . |
| 22 | In this paper I shall thus look systematically at this break with the aura of high modernist art in the 1920s ' avant-garde and in more recent decades . |
| 23 | Ever since the first distant sounds of music and odd snatches of alien speech began interrupting the 1920s ' world of Morse , better ( and louder ) reproduction of audio has been at the forefront of development priorities for engineers . |
| 24 | Back in the Rathausplatz a seven-piece jazz band of students dressed up in 1920s ' costume was keeping a large crowd entertained . |
| 25 | This is a most un-1990s ' move — but the spice to the deal is that this is a largely recession-proof business . |
| 26 | Out of all possible motions of the six atoms , there are therefore two of a 1 ' symmetry . |
| 27 | The beginning of conversation with strangers is all about finding something in common — or , to put it more succinctly and to use a very 1990s ' word , to discover commonality . |
| 28 | There will always be an element of the old school that insists that proper cooking must be done using traditional methods , but increasingly , chefs , catering managers and kitchen staff in general are putting their trust in 1990s ' technology to enable them to carry out their work . |
| 29 | The tiled hearth of a 1930s ' surround was made in a single unit , and simply laid on the structural hearth . |
| 30 | Many new towns on the fringe of the affluent south-east are so heavily populated by young married couples that they simply do not cater for retired people in any of their social activities ; similarly , you may be pushed to find an under-30s ' club in a retirement village on the south coast . |