Example sentences of "sixties [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DMT existed in the streets in the Sixties where it gained a reputation as the businessman 's acid , because it could be smoked and did n't last too long . |
| 2 | Father must be in his sixties now , and had not been well this winter . |
| 3 | The great anti-Establishment provocateur of the Sixties now reduced to a gibbering wreck ? |
| 4 | In particular , the speed of cutting from one scene to another has accelerated considerably , so that commercials from the late fifties or early sixties now look incredibly slow . |
| 5 | The expansion of welfare spending was noticeably faster in the sixties than the fifties — especially in Europe . |
| 6 | She would not , of course , have been surprised to hear her father making one of his many nocturnal pilgrimages , but he would have taken his stick , banged doors , bumped against furniture , turned on lights , even sung an old pop song from the sixties if he could have been sure of waking the children . |
| 7 | Probably a British businessman with enough money to go romping off to America on some tax-deductible crusade — heavens you were n't anybody in the Sixties if you could n't to that twice a year . ’ |
| 8 | McQueen 's most fruitful period in films had been in the sixties while Dustin was still unknown outside off-Broadway . |
| 9 | Joe Brown and The Beatles are some of the repeated SOUNDS OF THE SIXTIES before Herbie Hancock chills out with his jazzer mates on BIRD LAND . |
| 10 | And in addition to that , of course , they have copper , and coming up on the future horizon cobalt , and erm the possibilities of developing tourism on quite a big scale , as they were beginning to do in the nineteen sixties before Amin Amin took over . |
| 11 | I always reply , ‘ It 's the Sixties for you now , dear , so you get out there and make a wally of yourself ’ — and he has never let me down in that respect , I am glad to say . |
| 12 | In our clinic we have chosen > 6.5 mmol/l in the under sixties for both sexes . |
| 13 | That much was real estate , available to anyone with the right money , although it did n't help to discover that Alison and her late husband , a philosophy don at Balliol , had bought it back in the early sixties for less than £2,000 . |
| 14 | Formulated originally in the mid sixties for use in large commercial marine set-ups and improved over the years . |
| 15 | Minimalist works were originally made in the Sixties for loft spaces . |
| 16 | He had spent five years in prison in the early sixties for his opposition to the Shah . |
| 17 | Perhaps the best decade was the sixties when we played a lot of Shaw , Wilde and Ibsen . |
| 18 | There are many more than ten but I would certainly say they include my grandmother Sarah Howells , and Rosa Parks , the black American woman whose protest sparked off the civil rights movement in the United States during the Sixties when she refused to move from a whites-only seat on a bus . |
| 19 | LETTERS FROM MY FATHER ed by Amanda Allsop Alan Sutton , £4.99 I USED to encounter Kenneth Allsop frequently in the Sixties when we broadcast together on BBC book programmes . |
| 20 | Intel invented the guts of modern computers during the late Sixties when it developed the DRAM memory chip , the SRAM memory chip and the microprocessor . |
| 21 | I knew Mrs Bugler in the Sixties when she came to stay with my cousin Snaebjorn Jonsson , the translator of Hardy 's work and poems into Icelandic , at Portchester , Hants . |
| 22 | The major step forward in understanding the role of chlamydia in oculo-genital infection came in the early sixties when a group of workers in London published several reports connecting eye infection in the newborn baby with the presence of chlamydia in the mother 's genital tract and non-specific urethritis in the father . |
| 23 | A major breakthrough came in the middle sixties when an antigen was isolated from an Aborigine who was suffering from hepatitis . |
| 24 | This restricted freedom revolted Steven Morrissey , and his passion turned to the sixties when the ‘ George Best set ’ particularly liberated the city by proving that escapism is there for all who had eyes enough to avoid entrapment . |
| 25 | Admittedly things are not what they were in the ‘ sixties when architects could rely on plenty of money from generous Governments to build lots of colleges . |
| 26 | I know this is quite usual for fathers in the Eighties , but in the Fifties when we had our older children , and the Sixties when Shanti came , it was not quite so common . |
| 27 | But the industrial robot has come a long way since the early sixties when Joe Engelberger set up Unimation , the world 's first industrial robot making company . |
| 28 | Thus , for example , the proportion of men living alone who received a pension rose from 52 per cent at 80 years and over , to 61 per cent for those aged 65–69 , reflecting the growth in provision of occupational pensions between the early sixties when the oldest age-group left the labour force and the late seventies when the most recently retired left . |
| 29 | On the other hand her present emphasis may be retrospectively the harder because she was so emphatic in the Sixties when Burton ‘ crucified Sybil ’ by leaving her for Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 30 | From this perspective , even Sartre 's Critique looks rather different from the way it appeared in the early sixties when read in the context of Lukács ' History and Class Consciousness . |