Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [num] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This form of transport was available in Funchal until the early 1980s for tourist excursions in the centre of Funchal and near the Savoy and Sheraton Hotels . |
| 2 | Almost three quarters of married women are now looking for work , 21 per cent more than in the early 70s when mum 's prime concern was caring for her children . |
| 3 | A new awareness of regional questions emerged in the early 1960s as land use pressures mounted : a substantial rise in numbers of both population and households was forecast ; the numbers of vehicles on the roads was rising fast ; countryside pressures on recreation sites was being felt ; and ( as an immediate problem ) the cities ran out of housing land within their boundaries . |
| 4 | And DUP man Willie Cully , jailed for 12 years in the early '70s for terrorist offences , was defeated after gaining 485 first preference votes . |
| 5 | Formulated originally in the mid sixties for use in large commercial marine set-ups and improved over the years . |
| 6 | RioFinex planned to examine the Mawddach estuary in North Wales in the late 1960s for placer gold derived from the Dolgellau gold deposits . |
| 7 | IN THE LATE Fifties when news-gathering was still a soft-hat and trenchcoat job , Helen Mason became a reporter with the Daily Record . |
| 8 | The play is set in the late Eighties when power dressing was at its peak — which explains the bold jackets , short hemlines and figure-hugging dresses . |
| 9 | Video cameras were used regularly in the late 1980s for crowd surveillance at soccer grounds , and as a method of enforcing post-match arrests ( Uglow , 1988:95 ) . |
| 10 | The revival of interest in what can only be described as a strategy of import led growth began in the late 1950s as uneasiness over the optimistic , autarkic assumptions of the Khrushchev period increased . |
| 11 | She walked off before he could answer and stayed very close to the other two until dinner was actually served . |