Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , working in the artificial intelligence centres that began to open in the 1950s and 1960s , computer scientists began to make progress of a sort . |
| 2 | A band like that survived because of the existence of indie labels that kept going in the Eighties even though many of their major acts like The Smiths , and now The Fall and Blue Aeroplanes , deserted them for the majors . |
| 3 | In 1926 an agreement ( the Athens Agreement ) was concluded between Greece and Turkey to settle various difficulties that had arisen under the 1923 Lausanne Peace Treaty . |
| 4 | Now in a short time he would be gone , and the era that had begun in the 1960S with the triumvirate of Harold Wilson , George Brown and myself would be at an end . |
| 5 | In the long wake of a critical career that had begun in the 1930s avowedly in imitation of Richards and Empson and which ended with his death at the age of 83 , his final achievement of style was above all to create , for a time , a compelling image of himself . |
| 6 | He displayed perfectly that contradiction of attitude ( or ‘ supreme paradox ’ , as Phillipson puts it ) in ‘ expert ’ thinking on old age that had emerged by the 1940s — on the one hand portraying the elderly as a disastrous burden on society ( men over the age of 65 and women ova 60 had formed 6.2 per cent of the British population in 1901 , an estimated 12.0 per cent in 1941 , and would be 20.8 per cent in 1971 ) , yet on the other hand , paying lip-service to their status as an exceptionally deserving group : ‘ Provision made for age must be satisfactory ; otherwise great numbers may suffer . |
| 7 | Both the Board of Education and Ministry of Health were acutely sensitive on this issue , given the controversy that had raged in the 1930s over the issue of child malnutrition and ill health . |
| 8 | Black pretended not to overhear , but mused at the private world of women and the bond that had formed between the two . |
| 9 | The eventual collapse of the adjustable peg system came about as a result of intensification of the pressures that had developed during the 1960s . |
| 10 | Stenhouse 's proposal was in marked contrast , not only to Hoyle 's , but , for different reasons , to the tradition of curriculum development that had developed in the 1960s , both in the UK and the USA . |
| 11 | The plan therefore built on the proposals put forward in 1937 by Sir Charles Bressey and Sir Edwin Lutyens for London 's traffic , and proposed to add to the two already partly-built outer ring roads ( the North and South Orbital and the North and South Circular ) with two corresponding inner rings — ‘ the fast traffic ring-road an |
| 12 | Then it was presented with a list of terminal patients and had to skim off the 25 per cent who would be okayed for resurrection . |
| 13 | After the mid-1970s , however , the proportion of local spending funded by central grants fell sharply , and continued to fall into the 1980s . |
| 14 | The incidence of crowd misbehaviour reached a high point before the First World War , fell between the two World Wars , and continued to fall until the late-1950s , since when it continued to increase quite rapidly ( Dunning et al. , 1982 ; 1984 ) . |
| 15 | The statement is truer of lines than individual stations since average journey lengths are much longer , and continued to increase during the eighties . |
| 16 | He was selected to run in the 100 and 200 metres in the 1924 Olympics in Paris , but declined to run in the 100 metres on religious grounds , because the heats were to be run on a Sunday . |
| 17 | Nigel Richardson , of merchant bank S G Warburg , said Mr Lamont had faced a fine judgment between an electoral giveaway and financial prudence , but had fallen between the two . |