Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Fry noted that night visits had trebled in the seven years from 1967 to 1974 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This merely confirmed the distaste for Communists which Bevin and other union officials had acquired in the 1920s . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These were the children from whose statements the allegations had developed against the four families . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Indeed , young people 's wages had risen in the 50s and 60s because there was a labour shortage . |
| 17 | In Britain the scanty government services provided to the nation 's merchants had come until the 1860s almost entirely from the board of trade . |
| 18 | He distinguished between the 1960s and the 1970s , arguing that the balance of significant factors had shifted between the two periods . |
| 19 | Spreading themselves out , they began to hitchhike , just as English students had done in the sixties . |
| 20 | The House of Lords held that since the sellers had opted for the one shipment , albeit with separate documents , the contract was not severable . |
| 21 | 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 . |