Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The greatest period of administrative reform in the history of the Habsburg territories had come in the two decades after 1749 ( see pp. 153–4 ) ; here Joseph achieved much less than his mother . |
| 32 | Indeed , young people 's wages had risen in the 50s and 60s because there was a labour shortage . |
| 33 | Grazebrook ( 1986 ) gives a résum´ of how infection problems faced by hospitals have changed since the 1960s . |
| 34 | First marriages have fallen since the 1970s . |
| 35 | In Britain the scanty government services provided to the nation 's merchants had come until the 1860s almost entirely from the board of trade . |
| 36 | The fine print of the speeches of Labour leaders and party policy documents has changed during the 1980s . |
| 37 | He distinguished between the 1960s and the 1970s , arguing that the balance of significant factors had shifted between the two periods . |
| 38 | Spreading themselves out , they began to hitchhike , just as English students had done in the sixties . |
| 39 | Not many genuine tinfoil records have survived from the 1870s ( 2 ) . |
| 40 | How many mines have closed in the two valleys of the Rhondda ? |
| 41 | Some 7,000 soundings and 3,250 sea bed samples wee taken during the 1880s , and 52 separate survey documents carried out in 1964–65 supplemented by information from further boreholes sunk in the 1970s , and studies carried out for Eurotunnel by the Bureau de Recherchés Géologiques et Minières and Mott Hay and Anderson . |
| 42 | The House of Lords held that since the sellers had opted for the one shipment , albeit with separate documents , the contract was not severable . |
| 43 | The Company felt very pleased when in 1717 it received an imperial decree giving it a good deal of the territorial autonomy for which its ambitious employees had hoped in the 1680s and , in return for an annual payment of 13,000 rupees , freed it from paying customs duties inside India , but there is no sign that the Company realized that developments of this sort showed the Moghul Empire was beginning to lose control of the country . |
| 44 | SCOTVEC 's Board has agreed that the local officers should now be known as Field Officers , rather than their former title of External Moderator , because the new title reflects much more faithfully the way in which their jobs have evolved over the five years of National Certificate 's life . |