Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Housing association output will soon be running at three times the level that it was in the 1970s . |
| 2 | As I noted in their recent Erato version of the Concerto , the Suisse Romande Orchestra is ‘ in very much better shape that it was in the 1950s and 1960s , and this new account supersedes earlier recommendations ’ . |
| 3 | There is no doubt , however , that it was in the 1860s and 1870s that there was a real extension of propaganda for birth control directed at the middle class . |
| 4 | While he does expect recovery to come , he assumes life will be much gentler in the '90s than it was during the '80s . |
| 5 | Recreational drug use is bigger today than it was in the Sixties , but enthusiasm for Ecstasy may be starting to wane . |
| 6 | It seems to have become more stridently partisan in the 1970s and 1980s than it was in the 1960s . |
| 7 | Student influence seems , by contrast , rather weaker than it was in the 1960s and 1970s , when more radical questions were asked , leading to the inclusion in some cases of courses to do with the social and environmental impacts of professional activities . |
| 8 | Also , thanks to deposit insurance , the threat of bank runs is far less now than it was in the 1930s ; the FDIC ( which insures deposits up to $100,000 ) was created expressly to prevent them . |
| 9 | The relevance of this goal is no less than it was in the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 10 | This is hardly less true in the 1980s than it was in the 1930s . |
| 11 | In consequence , boxing in the 1990s is even more confused than it was in the 1980s when only two titles were unified : the heavyweight title by Mike Tyson ( and his successors James Douglas , Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe ) ; and the middleweight title by Marvin Hagler . |
| 12 | just to make my day just to make my day yeah well , I was n't sure what those you see , hang on a minute mum so er she said she 'll either get the twelve or the one so I went down to see if she was on the twelve o'clock bus , and she was n't so I thought well I 'll try again |
| 13 | And it was in the 1980s that it was finally applied , in particular the ideas contained in two articles by Mr Modigliani and Mr Miller in 1958 and 1963 . |
| 14 | It was in this period , very roughly between 1050 and 1150 , that we can most readily discern the revival of many independent cities ; and it was in the 1150s that the first serious challenge to their independence was mounted by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa . |
| 15 | Colin covered his eyes with his hands until he was inside the four high walls , and the door was shut again . |
| 16 | of the day I do n't which government it was at that time cos it was in the fifties okayed it and |
| 17 | The woman-centred perspective had some impact at the beginning of the second wave of western feminism , but it was in the 1970s that it became most powerful , and most in conflict with egalitarian approaches . |
| 18 | The Industrial Revolution had , of course , begun some twenty years before Jane Austen 's birth , at a time when the Rule of Taste had established an unquestioned supremacy ; but it was in the twenty years following her death in 1817 that it really began to change the face of England . |
| 19 | Stone shows no awareness of the place of the Royal Commission 's recommendations within the politics of the postwar debate on the disintegration of the family , which was almost as much a preoccupation of the 1940s and early 1950s ( the Commission was set up in 1952 ) as it was during the 1980s . |
| 20 | The strongest critiques of local government as it was in the 1970s concentrate not on its localness , but its position within a national system and , above all , use it as an example of what its critics see as the failings of bureaucratic decision-making . |
| 21 | The social isolation of women is not nearly as popular a cause for concern as it was in the 1970s . |
| 22 | Which will go towards making a corpus of information from which will draw the meaning and usage of words as it was in the nineteen nineties . |
| 23 | Surely in 1993 we do not need a Great Homer Street system of trading as it was in the 1920s . |
| 24 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 25 | But it has never since been debated as solemnly , as urgently or as hysterically as it was in the 1950s . |
| 26 | What is actually meant is that the world is no longer so clearly divided as it was in the 1950s and 1960s into two armed camps of allies , with China , after 1960 , causing something of a schism in the Russian camp . |
| 27 | Although social class continues to structure party choice , it is no longer as reliable a predictor as it was in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 28 | Athens was expelled from Boiotia in 446 , and the Boiotian League was perhaps reorganized now ; in a valuable description the Oxyrhynchus Historian ( chapter xvi ) gives the system essentially as it was in the 440s , though for instance he takes account of Plataia 's destruction in 427 , after which Thebes took her votes . |
| 29 | Koltai suggests everything appalling in modern urban life : The Wimpy-precinct existence which one realises with something like delayed shock is just as inescapable now as it was in the Fifties when Billy first sought refuge in his compulsive make believe . |
| 30 | It is even possible that Mr Soros is as wrong about gold as he was about the 1987 stockmarket crash , when he lost something like $100m . |