Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The Incident happened in the 1930s when a Hartlepool couple were jailed for attacking a shop owner who 'd remonstrated with them for drinking out of the vinegar bottle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This was still the practice by the 1830s when a tide of emigrants left Europe for Australia , New Zealand and California . |