Example sentences of "[prep] the 1950s [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Going into manufacturing for himself , therefore , was something that came fairly easy to him and for most of the 1950s he built up a substantial furniture business . |
2 | ‘ In the 1950s you did n't need an enormous sum to become one if you worked at Lloyd 's ’ he says . |
3 | In the 1950s he joined the Shin Bet internal security service and by the early 1960s was operating secretly in Europe , running agents into Arab countries for Mossad . |
4 | In the 1950s he bought the major share of Universal Pictures , which he steered to good fortune during a difficult period , with movies featuring such stars as Cary Grant , James Stewart and Doris Day . |
5 | In the 1950s he joined the Architects Division at the LCC as a trainee , later becoming a member of the Development Group . |
6 | One of his forebears was James Murray , compiler of the ‘ Oxford English Dictionary ’ , and when Les Murray went to Sydney University in the 1950s he spent his days ingesting the contents of the famous Fisher Library , which was ‘ full of the cultural wonders that bushies like me were despised for not having . ’ |
7 | In the 1950s he wrote soccer for The Guardian under the pseudonym ‘ Silchester ’ . |
8 | In the 1950s he had condemned the French Fourth Republic as a weak regime , vacillating in its policies , too often a victim rather than a shaper of international events . |
9 | In the 1950s he had failed to advance far in the party nationally , and had instead made his name as internal affairs minister in the Land of Hamburg after 1961 . |
10 | In the 1950s he felt we could n't afford a new car , so be bought a prewar London taxi , and he and I built a Nissen hut as a garage . |
11 | In the 1950s he was finding work hard to come by . |
12 | For a period in the 1950s she flirted with Roman Catholicism , and whether her Catholic point of view made her see moral issues exclusively within a religious framework , or whether she simply did not share the same experience as English-born-and-raised writers who faced the dissolution of their class system is difficult to judge . |
13 | The Barley Mow brewery was among the very last to still brew draught London porter , which it made until the late 1930s , and even in the 1950s it was famous for another dark beer , its Main Line mild . |
14 | In the 1950s it was rung by my mother to summon my brother and me to meals . |
15 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
16 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
17 | British universities can seldom afford the American luxury of Writers on Campus , but the ivy-clad wall can tumble from inwards , and in the 1950s it did . |
18 | In the 1950s it was only occasionally activated , with nominal headquarters in London ; and indeed any proposals on defence that emanated from its Consultative Assembly were invariably ignored by the member governments . |
19 | Although the number of recorded offences in that decade was not as high as it had been in the 1950s it is nevertheless an important trend . |
20 | Since the 1950s they had lost a good deal of their influence over him to the Americans . |
21 | By the 1950s he saw his country 's salvation in keeping a proper distance , a real neutrality , between East and West . |