Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , though , one large disadvantage that became much discussed in the eighties : standard-class seats do not match the window spacing . |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing like this has ever happened in the 53 years the Palladium has been open . ’ |
| 3 | The period of cohabitation prior to remarriage has also increased in the 1980s , from 28 months in 1979 to 34 months in 1987 . |
| 4 | Funnily enough , I think the craze has never resurfaced in the seventy years since that time . |
| 5 | This pattern became more pronounced in the 1960s and 1970s , as did the division between North and South . |
| 6 | The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) survey of Greece published in June 1991 criticized management of public enterprises and banks , and noted that " traditionally macro-economic policies in Greece are strongly influenced by the electoral cycle , but this has become more pronounced in the 1980s " . |
| 7 | According to Willmot and Murie the housing market has become increasingly polarised in the 1980s . |
| 8 | Her elder brother Giles ( 1612–1663 ) became well known in the 1650s as a printer of Quaker literature . |
| 9 | Labour supply patterns have , however , become more complicated in the 1980s and are inevitably emerging as a key issue of the 1990s . |
| 10 | Among those who went were John B Dynes and Edward Wright who had already served in the 1914–1918 War . |
| 11 | R. A. Butler was no warm friend of Churchill , the Prime Minister , whose politics on India he had stoutly opposed in the 1930s . |
| 12 | It was this role that the new model unions had consciously adopted in the eighteen fifties and that the Webbs had emphasised in the eighteen nineties . |