Example sentences of "[num] onwards a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Habsburg territories also , as has been seen , a series of able ministers backed by Maria Theresa , the greatest ruler of the dynasty , created from the 1740s onwards a whole range of important new organs of administration ( see pp. 153–4 ) . |
| 2 | From the early 1970s onwards an increasing number of Middle East capital goods importers have demanded bonds ( or guarantees ) from exporters due to the cash or short-term credit nature of their import contracts . |
| 3 | From 1907 onwards a standardised record was kept for each woman admitted to the labour ward at the Jessop Hospital , Sheffield , England . |
| 4 | France , a striking case of this , had from 1880 onwards a compulsory examination for all entrants to its diplomatic and consular services which was hedged around with precautions against favouritism or unfairness ( all scripts were anonymous and double-marked ; the five-man jury which ranked the candidates contained two members from outside the foreign ministry ) . |
| 5 | But from ninety one ninety two onwards a married woman was entitled to an allowance in her own right , and it still mystifies me knowing Mrs Thatcher was in office for all those years , why it took so long for this to happen , . |
| 6 | The example of Alain Robbe-Grillet , who acknowledges a debt to Joyce as well as to Sartre and Gide , offered from the late 1950s onwards a renewed incentive to experiment , at a moment when British writers might have felt themselves particularly distanced from modernism . |