Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norfolk , for example , lost 70 per cent of its rail network during the 1960s , but some closures had come about even before the 1963 Beeching Report , having been underway ever since postwar nationalization of the railways ( Moseley 1979a ) . |
| 2 | The battle of politics and ideas which focuses on the inner city represents a conflict between sets of interests and values which have a long history , dating at least from the 1830s and the New Poor Law of 1834 . |
| 3 | Longer-term planning forced BR to embark upon life-extension programmes for several locomotive types expected to be needed until well into the 1990s , although they were halted in 1989 before being completed . |
| 4 | The Civil War was over , but the social repercussions of external and internal war and revolution flowed on right through the 1920s . |
| 5 | It would need to look at least at the two following decades . |
| 6 | Now last week and on Sunday we talked about again about the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit . |
| 7 | Ben Hall has spoken of how in the 1920s the United States ‘ was dotted with a thousand Xanadus ’ , luxurious cinemas in which people all too concerned with their own improvement could satisfy their curiosity about how other people had succeeded . |
| 8 | Bread was rationed in nineteen forty six and food and clothes rationing continued like make do and mend until well into the nineteen fifties . |
| 9 | The Alsands and Cold Lake projects may be deferred until well into the nineties . |
| 10 | The spiral structure of DNA and RNA molecules , the ‘ double helix ’ , was not proposed until late in the 1950s . |
| 11 | It is projected to fall to somewhere round the fifteen hundred , fourteen per annum , towards the end of this decade . |
| 12 | . So they go from here into the two little rooms where food is prepared . |
| 13 | It was in his interests that his father should live at least until the seven years were up . ’ |
| 14 | In a session lasting until one in the morning they had discussed Crime in Society with that lucidity which is only achieved at somewhere above the 100 mg per cent level of blood alcohol and with the comforting knowledge that one does n't have to drive home . |