Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1980s both the community and its schools suffered from the severe effects of deindustrialisation , which for the schools was compounded by an above average drop in pupil numbers caused by a fall in the birth rate . |
| 2 | By Leonard Barden THE EASY Soviet victory in this week 's world team championship at Lucerne recalled the palmy days of the 1950s when the generation of Botvinnik and Smyslov , Bronstein and Keres , outclassed opponents . |
| 3 | As an example , personal , social and moral education was from the 1960s onwards a field where schools shared their experiences , their approaches and their materials . |
| 4 | By comparison with other intermediaries growth has been slow , at least until the 1980s when the value of investment trusts ' assets almost doubled ( 1981–86 ) . |
| 5 | It was worked by various tenants until the 1730s when a number of owners culminated with the well-known family of Painswick clothiers , the Packers . |
| 6 | It is , however , correct that these percentages were at their highest in the 1970s when the number of strikers was also at its highest . |
| 7 | The post , erected in the 1840s when the area was drained , shows the land has sunk some 13ft-14ft — an ominous decline in view of forecasts that global warming may cause the nearby sea to rise . |
| 8 | In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third . |
| 9 | After all , back in the Thirties even the holiday posters would tell of ‘ Healthful Hartlepool — the most bracing air in the kingdom ’ . |
| 10 | Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose . |
| 11 | The appointment of Fyfe to Warrington in 1921 was , however , the exception rather than the rule in the 1920s when the majority of missioners appointed or holding the posts were clergymen or hearing persons . |
| 12 | Agriculture , in the 1920s still the occupation of 27% of Americans , suffered a depression throughout the decade . |
| 13 | Perhaps the biggest event in recent times was in the 1950s when a film company made the church the setting for the film Lease of Life with Robert Donat . |
| 14 | The first of these , the statistical test controversy , arose in the 1950s when a group of American scholars vigorously attacked the use of such tests , pointing out the difficulty of surveys meeting the strict mathematical requirements demanded by the statistical theory , especially those to do with randomness . |
| 15 | Such a fine contrast to the wave of hysteria which greeted the rock craze in the 1950s when the press , predictably absorbed by the outlandish pleasures of the young , railed against its demoralising influence . |
| 16 | In the 1950s only a quarter of the growth in sales of electricity to domestic consumers came from newly-connected homes and another quarter from the extended use of existing appliances , but as much as half came from newly-purchased appliances . |
| 17 | Neither made a significant provision before 1820 , and their rivalry still persisted in the 1830s when the government began at last to assist them with grants . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ Whereas in the previous downturn in the 1980s when a lot of cyclical companies were haemorraging cash , this time the pressure on profits has not been at the expense of their financial position . ’ |
| 19 | However , managed floating also was adopted in the 1930s when the gold standard was abandoned in the severe economic conditions of the time . |
| 20 | Commercial use finally ceased in the 1930s when the machinery was removed and the domestic conversion carried out . |
| 21 | Unemployment , now a major problem , was in the mid-seventies only a threat ; privatisation was not an issue ; government attacks on the trade union movement were a thing of the future . |
| 22 | A little further on , the small compact settlement of Lea Yeat ( Gate ) is reached , its tranquillity disturbed only in the 1870s when the railway was being constructed across the hillside above . |
| 23 | In mothers of under twenty , there is only one chance in 2,400 that the child will have Down 's Syndrome ; this rises to one in every 100 when the mother is over 40 . |
| 24 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 25 | By the 1880s half the wheat harvest was being exported . |
| 26 | This was still the practice by the 1830s when a tide of emigrants left Europe for Australia , New Zealand and California . |