Example sentences of "[art] [num] was [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ In fact , I think my whole career at the end of the 60s was probably a guilt trip of some sort .
2 Thus the considerable increase in recorded burglary during the 1970s was largely a recording phenomenon .
3 Although her views are still regarded as highly eccentric outside reactionary conservative and fascist circles , it is interesting to note that some historians now argue that secret societies like the IRA and the Mafia have indeed played a significant role in world events , and that the Illuminati conspiracy in the 1780s was truly a model for future revolutionary organization .
4 It has to be remembered that Britain of the 1920s was not a land of milk and honey .
5 While geographical proximity , cultural affinities and the need to justify Japanese rule encouraged the pursuit of a policy aimed at integrating the interests of ruler and ruled , equality between the two was never a possibility .
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