Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] [num] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the 1830s and 1840s the discourse of social investigation , circulated by novelists and journalists , social scientists and government commissioners , represented working-class immorality as a major source of anxiety . |
| 2 | If Chlothild waited from the 490s until 523 the feud can not have been uppermost in her mind . |
| 3 | It was this latter purpose which attracted most money , for in the 1940s and 1950s the government saw the development of youth clubs as one of its priorities . |
| 4 | During the 1970s and 1980s the problem became redefined . |
| 5 | Throughout the 1340s and 1350s the king played on the commons ' fear of a French invasion of England : the threat that the French might ‘ destroy the English tongue and occupy the realm of England ’ was used more than once to persuade the commons to grant money for the war , and the discovery at the sack of Caen of a French plan for the invasion of England in 1339 was a gift to royal propaganda . |
| 6 | His successors did not share his passion for maritime affairs ; and in the 1730s and 1740s the fleet he had created was allowed to decline sharply in numbers and efficiency . |
| 7 | In its heyday in the 1920s and 30s the nursery used to supply the seventeenth century Misarden house with fruit and vegetables . |
| 8 | Moreover , there is evidence to suggest that by the seventeenth century both literacy and Bible reading were on the increase ; in the parish of Keevil in Wiltshire , for example , only 4 per cent of testators who died during the decades between 1590 and 1630 appear to have possessed a Bible , whereas during the course of the 1630s and 1640s the proportion rose to 18 per cent . |
| 9 | During the Twenties and Thirties the tram service gradually expanded until , by August Bank Holiday 1933 , every one of the 156 cars was on the road . |
| 10 | In the 1880s and 90s the state moved a little more decisively into the fields of housing , factory reform , and public health . |
| 11 | In the periods of high unemployment of the 1880s and 1890s the Mansion House fund , with COS support , introduced work-creation schemes for the London unemployed . |
| 12 | The abbot of Cîteaux enjoyed at first a patriarchal , supervisory role like his brother of Cluny ; but in the course of the 1120s and 1130s the machinery of the Order was perfected , and in principle every abbot of the Order went to Cîteaux every year for general chapter , and every abbot visited his abbey 's daughter houses every year . |
| 13 | When I was at school in the 1930s and 1940s the canon would have included King-lake 's Eothen , Thomas Hughes 's Tom Brown 's Schooldays , Charles Kingsley 's The Water Babies and the essays of Charles Lamb , all little read by the young today . |
| 14 | Through the 1930s and 1940s the habit quickly spread through Britain , at far too fast a rate for it to have taken place by the natural selection of Mendelian genes ( Figure 3.12 ) . |
| 15 | Whereas during the 1670s and 1680s the City Whigs had argued for an extension of democratic rights within the Corporation , they abandoned this position after the Glorious Revolution and instead became increasingly identified as defenders of the oligarchical forces within the City 's government . |
| 16 | In the 1960s and 1970s the Standing Conference on University Entrance tried to deal with it on a large-scale basis but repeated efforts to bring about improvements of connection amounted to little . |
| 17 | However , throughout the 1960s and 1970s the company was plagued by poor industrial relations and inadequate investment . |
| 18 | In spite of the nationalizations of the 1960s and 1970s the stock of capital of foreign investors continues to generate about one-fifth of Africa 's gross national product . |
| 19 | Squid and yellowtail then became the main species fished , but throughout the 1960s and 1970s the pattern was repeated as the yellowtail fishery began to show the familiar signs of overfishing , with catches decreasing despite increasing fishing efforts . |
| 20 | But in the 1860s and 1870s the development of the steam trawler , the use of ice for preservation , and the exploitation of the rail network signalled the arrival of cheap cod and made possible the fish-and-chip shops which multiplied at the end of the century to furnish an important source of protein to the working class . |
| 21 | On the one hand the effect of human activity upon earth environment has been very apparent and increasing , and yet on the other hand until the 1950s or 1960s the significance of human activity did not attract much attention by physical geographers , who instead often chose to study environmental change before man , to seek processes largely unmodified by man , or at best to include man as an afterthought or an appendage . |
| 22 | During the 1950s and 1960s the fate of Palestine gained in importance in Arab national thinking . |
| 23 | She concludes that during the 1950s and 1960s the prospect of returning to the labour market gave women an incentive to compress their childbearing , thus shortening intervals between births and accelerating the tempo of fertility . |
| 24 | In the 1950s and 1960s the world economy benefited from declining nominal and real oil prices plus easy access to Middle East oil resources . |
| 25 | In the 1950s and 1960s the movement of women into the work-force , or its anticipation , appears to have accelerated the pace of childbearing temporarily , especially of first and second births , reinforcing the positive economic effect through men 's income ( ni Bhrölchain 1986a , 1986b ) . |
| 26 | But even in the 1950s and '60s the unemployment figures may not have reflected the ‘ true ’ number unemployed because of people 's failure to register . |