Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as interest in training , and co-ordinated training programmes has developed throughout the 70s and 80s , so has interest in co-operative training schemes . |
| 2 | Amino-acid data for a variety of proteins has accumulated throughout the 1980s . |
| 3 | In fact we were , rather condescendingly , informed that teaching methods had changed since the 1960s and we could not expect our child to be educated in the same manner as we ourselves had been . |
| 4 | Further analysis of their data and of additional data for the period from 1970 to 1975 showed that , though the vote for the two main parties had declined in the 1960s , major party identification had not : in other words , electors — whatever they may have done in the polling booths — continued to express a sense of affiliation with one of the two main parties . |
| 5 | His move , in January 1988 , turned out to be one of the scheduling masterstrokes of the ‘ 80s , and within months the soap 's ratings had soared towards the 20 million mark and the top to the TV charts . |
| 6 | Where research studies have been carried out in different parts of the country it is difficult to disentangle anything which might be attributed to regional variations specifically , from other systematic variations by gender , class , ethnicity or variations over time ( that is where changes in patterns of family relationships have occurred between the 1960s and the 1980s ) . |
| 7 | Money invested in unit trusts has grown throughout the 1980's , particularly in 1986 , with funds under management growing by 63 per cent . |
| 8 | UK electricity generating companies PowerGen and National Power have received the licences to pollute required by the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 9 | Fry noted that night visits had trebled in the seven years from 1967 to 1974 . |
| 10 | If UK companies had recognised in the 1960s or early 1970s the need to enter the high-volume chip business , Juleff thinks that the whole of the British electronics industry would be in a better state . |
| 11 | Scientists from Lancaster Moor Hospital and Lancaster University , who discovered the link , are calling for more studies to be done to see if other childhood cancers have increased in the 4,000-5,000 children born between 1950 and 1990 to mothers in the target group . |
| 12 | This merely confirmed the distaste for Communists which Bevin and other union officials had acquired in the 1920s . |
| 13 | There was no question of simply negotiating a deal with one American company , as producers had done in the 1930s , and then just hoping for the best . |
| 14 | Things had changed since the 1920s when Lionel Hedges , a Tonbridge and Kent cricketer and Oxford blue , had dismissed ‘ a seedy looking middle-aged gentleman [ who ] called on him on the morning of a match . |
| 15 | However , many things had happened during the two years since she had been told that her mother had died of the fever and that , prior to this , she had not been allowed to see her in case she should catch it and spread it further . |
| 16 | Entrants have travelled to the Three Counties Showground in Malvern from all over the world . |
| 17 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 18 | These were the children from whose statements the allegations had developed against the four families . |
| 19 | Chocolates have sold by the dozen , |
| 20 | It also seems that the pressures have increased since the 1970s as manufacturing firms especially have reduced their labour force and no worker wants to be nominated for early retirement or transfer . |
| 21 | Thus although poverty among lone mothers has increased in the 1980s , as a group they have long been vulnerable to poverty . |
| 22 | A STAR WARS has erupted between the two screen goddesses , Sridevi and Madhuri Dixit , sweethearts of millions of moviegoers . |
| 23 | Zina Garrison , perhaps one of the best known black tennis players to have emerged in the 1980's , recalls in John Feinstein 's book , Hard Courts , the incident in 1975 which first prompted her desire to reach the top . |
| 24 | The people against whom his brothers and their friends had struck in the Twenties , the people who had stood by the Army in the Valleys , the people who had let his people go to hell in war and in peace . |
| 25 | In another study , Johansen and Fuguitt ( 1984 ) from a sample of 572 of the 11,334 villages in the USA ( defined as a population of less than 2,500 in 1960 ) found that while only half of the villages had grown in the 1950s , two-thirds had grown in the 1970s , and that this growth was no longer restricted to the larger villages . |
| 26 | In the general election of 1918 the Irish Parliamentary Party which had dominated Irish politics since the days of Parnell was routed by a reorganised Sinn Fein , many of whose members had fought in the 1916 Rising . |
| 27 | In addition to the students coming in through the normal channels , two non-uniform routes have emerged during the eighties . |
| 28 | Service occupations have increased since the 1960s , whilst those occupations directly involved in goods production have declined . |
| 29 | He was caught in a massive police hunt launched after the four fled through a hole in a fence around the jail playing field . |
| 30 | But Sealink did admit that their numbers had fallen over the nine months from January 1 to Monday of this week , by 20,755 passengers and 9,644 cars . |