Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [num] when the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early 1970s when the idea of JET was first conceived , the best recorded value fell short by a factor of 25 000 ; by 1990 JET was within a factor Of 20 . |
| 2 | Advertising was practically never used , even in the early 1970s when the use of search by companies was much less widespread . |
| 3 | A more recent reappraisal took place in the early 1980s when the decision was taken to shed the foods side of the business and concentrate on the confectionery and soft drinks divisions . |
| 4 | In the early 1980s when the policy of overfunding led to persistent money market shortages , the Bank 's bill mountain was criticised from the standpoint that it entailed the Bank acting essentially as a clearing bank , lending to the corporate sector ( albeit indirectly ) via its bill purchases . |
| 5 | The phenomenon of the management buy-out first emerged in Britain in the early 1980s when the economy was in deep recession . |
| 6 | The Broadisland Gathering is turning the clock back to the early 1600s when the area was settled by Scots Lowlanders . |
| 7 | Even then abolition was not completed until the early 1890s when the number of landless and dispossessed peasants and rural labourers increased dramatically . |
| 8 | As Table 3.22 shows , entitlement to unemployment benefit among male workers decreased substantially during the late 1970s when the rate of unemployment was high . |
| 9 | Dating back to the late 1960s when the announcement of the Wilson government Urban Aid programme followed swiftly on the heels of Enoch Powell 's predictions of rivers of blood flowing through British cities as a result of racial conflict , there has regularly been a connection between the fear of ( racially based ) civil unrest and the implementation of high profile symbolic palliatives for inner city malaise ( Sills , Taylor and Golding , 1988 ; Solomos , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | Muhtarram , who finished fourth , looked to be travelling well at the three-furlong marker but had no answer to the first two when the pressure was applied . |