Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in [art] 1950s " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a review of studies on productivity and ageing carried out in the 1950s and 1960s , one researcher concluded that ‘ productivity is , by and large , affected only minimally , if at all , by age . ’ |
| 2 | It is difficult to obtain accurate figures from the wilder , more snake-ridden parts of the world , such as Africa , Asia and South America , but an attempt at a global survey carried out in the 1950s gave a total world figure of thirty thousand deaths annually from all forms of snakebite . |
| 3 | Among other research it led to a series of studies — mostly carried out in the 1950s and 1960s — of the personalities of very creative people . |
| 4 | Thoughts on women and politics generally tended to emerge on an ad hoc basis as a by-product of empirical studies into voting behaviour and political participation carried out in the 1950s and 60s . |
| 5 | Children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s were fortunate enough to enjoy the Eagle comic every week . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position . |
| 7 | Although FDI had been substantial from the beginning of the twentieth century , it really took off in the 1950s , as a result of the flow of funds from the United States into Europe aher the Second World War . |
| 8 | This market grew up in the 1950s when the local authorities began to raise money for capital projects by issuing bills and bonds , and by raising loans . |
| 9 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |
| 10 | Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s . |