Example sentences of "[num] when [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National Savings were particularly competitive in the 1980's when emphasis was placed on raising government funds from this source , largely because it relieved the need somewhat to borrow from the banking system which created credit and therefore inflationary conditions , and because of the fear that government borrowing in the long-term capital markets would tend to ‘ crowd-out ’ industrial and commercial companies from that market , and impede their ability to raise funds for capital investment and long-term growth . |
| 2 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 3 | Almost three quarters of married women are now looking for work , 21 per cent more than in the early 70s when mum 's prime concern was caring for her children . |
| 4 | For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week . |
| 5 | This policy was later reversed in the 1970's when procurement was transferred to a department within the Ministry of Defence . |
| 6 | The play is set in the late Eighties when power dressing was at its peak — which explains the bold jackets , short hemlines and figure-hugging dresses . |
| 7 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
| 8 | IN THE LATE Fifties when news-gathering was still a soft-hat and trenchcoat job , Helen Mason became a reporter with the Daily Record . |
| 9 | The incident has revived memories of the dark days in the sixties when foot and mouth threatened to wipe out millions of pounds worth of beef and dairy cattle . |
| 10 | This is in stark contrast to the fifties and sixties when loan capital formed an important part of corporate financing needs . |
| 11 | It went up to £1.3 million when tunnelling had to be done . |
| 12 | ‘ The estate was mortgaged up to the hilt in the thirties when farming was n't paying . |