Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [vb pp] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This selectivity in the migration process appears to have intensified in the 1980s . |
| 2 | The party may claim to be in the vanguard of history , but its clock seems to have stopped in the 1950s . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sometimes , as in England , country girls became more literate than country boys — this seems to have happened in the 1850s . |
| 5 | 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 . |