Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not true of Cramlington , where the basic development programme laid down in the early 1960s has continued , with only two significant changes relating to the use of industrial land and the role of the shopping centre development . |
| 2 | Keeping goats has really caught on in the past 10 years , as farmers look to alternative livestock to stay in business . |
| 3 | I can inform the Secretary of State straight away that there is a much more immediate cause seriously impairing ’ the ability of the Agency to deliver a proper service ’ and that is the swingeing cuts in staff numbers of up to one third in each local office that the Secretary of State has carried through in the past two years under the operational strategy . |
| 4 | The most obvious targets are the unwieldy conglomerates built up in the late 1960 's and early 1970's which still represent an area of managerial weakness in the British ( and U.S. ) economy . |
| 5 | In Honduras , the pressures of a growing debt crisis built up in the late 1980s . |
| 6 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 7 | Companies behind with their accounts and returns submissions will have to catch up in the next 12 months . |
| 8 | Trailing 2-0 to the Second Division high-flyers , Wycombe bounced back in the last 20 minutes to force a replay with goals from skipper Glyn Creaser and Steve Thompson , a corporal in the RAF . |
| 9 | It 's the type of client , life assurance clients are the type of client where the commission 's all come out in the first four years . |
| 10 | A number of studies , both sociological and historical , carried out in the late 1950s and 1960s provided the basis for a critique of this position . |
| 11 | In a survey carried out in the mid 1960s of 419 businesses in western Nigeria , 74 per cent said that ‘ partnerships or joint ventures were difficult or undesirable because of financial untrustworthiness ’ . |
| 12 | The first is much larger : 444 interviews carried out in the early 1970s . |
| 13 | However , this did not turn out to be such a cheap solution in the long run , since it set up conditions of even greater instability , necessitating repeated operations every two years.5 Major work on the river Taff and the river Usk in South Wales , carried out in the early 1980s , has precipitated extensive and unforeseen repair bills . |
| 14 | Blood-typing studies of ten European breeds carried out in the early 1980s showed that the genetic distance was closer between the South Devon and the yellow Gelbvieh of central Germany , or the South Devon and the Swiss Brown , than between the South Devon and the Hereford . |
| 15 | As Area Manager Martin Ellis said ‘ Adele has accomplished a great deal in her current position of Area Field Biologist , not least in her QA work carried out in the last two years , her Mouse-Alert sales and the careful co-ordination of Sentinel contracts ’ . |
| 16 | For those who prefer scientific evidence for the effects of essential oils on the mind , let me draw your attention to some experiments carried out in the last ten years by John Steele ( an American research worker ) and Maxwell Cade , a British biophysicist . |
| 17 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 18 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 19 | I got excuse me , put down in the first eleven for hockey . |
| 20 | That the original Phillips curve did break down in the late 1960s is clearly illustrated in Fig. 6.3 where the curve estimated by Phillips is shown together with the observed combination of the unemployment percentage and the rate of wage inflation from 1966 to 1985 . |
| 21 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 22 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 23 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 24 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 25 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 26 | Their calibre , though , is impossible to deny : listen to the last half of Divine Madness and you 'll hear the most consistently pugnacious and provocative music British pop has turned up in the last 15 years . |
| 27 | For this reason , Handy was forced to sell out in the late 1960s . |
| 28 | The next psychological breakpoint is the 1,000dpi mark which was the point at which digital phototypesetting began to be accepted back in the late 60s and through the 70s . |
| 29 | ( Currently students gaining a baccalauréat were guaranteed a university place ; however , 50 per cent of students dropped out in the first two years . ) |
| 30 | Electronic with Getting Away With it , always reminds me a bit of the new order record that er came out in the nineteen ninety world cup period . |