Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [vb pp] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pressure of higher salaries , labour shortages and office rents was by 1989 causing more government departments to think of moving sections of work to the North , as some had done in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | Since the table began on the current basis 22 years ago , Clerical Medical has appeared in the top-ten no fewer than 51 times out of a possible 66 . |
| 3 | In another study , Johansen and Fuguitt ( 1984 ) from a sample of 572 of the 11,334 villages in the USA ( defined as a population of less than 2,500 in 1960 ) found that while only half of the villages had grown in the 1950s , two-thirds had grown in the 1970s , and that this growth was no longer restricted to the larger villages . |
| 4 | They recognise full well that , if that had happened in the 1950s , 1960s or 1970s , the story of this country in Europe and of the Community would have been different . |
| 5 | A lot of people say , ‘ Oh how fantastic to have started in the Sixties . ’ |