Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gives rise to the danger of what has become known as the two-thirds , one-third society in which the majority obtains secure well-paid full-time ‘ core ’ jobs and the minority become ‘ marginalised ’ , obtaining less well-paid , part-time , temporary , ‘ peripheral ’ jobs and hovering on the verge of poverty . |
| 2 | This selectivity in the migration process appears to have intensified in the 1980s . |
| 3 | The party may claim to be in the vanguard of history , but its clock seems to have stopped in the 1950s . |
| 4 | Spectacular rises in corn prices encouraged landlords to evict in order to farm themselves , a process which led to the creation of despoblados ; middling tenants refused to sublet and a wave of rent rises seems to have started in the 1760's . |
| 5 | Sometimes , as in England , country girls became more literate than country boys — this seems to have happened in the 1850s . |
| 6 | Little seems to have changed by the 1900s , when compared to funerals , marriages were tame events . |
| 7 | The postcard has improved in quality as printing processes have developed , and the number of companies producing and distributing them seems to have multiplied by the hundred since I started in bookselling 15 years ago . |
| 8 | The number of institutions in London which can reasonably be considered private banks seems to have doubled in the fifty years between 1725 and 1775 to reach fifty-two . |