Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [conj] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I had a hysterectomy when I was forty nine and to me life really did begin at fifty ! |
| 2 | Rift systems have been studied for many decades but have received renewed attention since the early 1970s because of their association with crustal upwarps and their role in continental rupture . |
| 3 | Promoted thereafter as a source of cheap and clean energy , neither of which has actually been realised some 40 years on , nuclear power is a source of considerable debate in the late 1980s because of its annihilation potential in the case of warfare and the problems that characterise waste disposal from nuclear power plants ( section 5.4.3 ) . |
| 4 | But by then their finances were already weakened by the takeover frenzy of the late 1980s and by their alliance with Robert Campeau , whom they helped buy Federated Stores in the United States . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , I could n't fish the last two but in my side challenge with Simon I did n't need to . |