Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its dominance over other media built up steadily through the 1980s ( Table 6.13 ) . |
| 2 | The first-year course concentrates on modern German language and modern German literature , with teaching hours shared approximately equally between the two components . |
| 3 | It lingered on well into the 1930s . |
| 4 | The cycle chain came off twice on the three miles back to the van , but I could n't be cross . |
| 5 | The truth came out again during the 1985 visit of the Israeli President to Dublin . |
| 6 | While TNC investment in the developing countries levelled off somewhat in the 1980s ( UNCTC , 1988 ) , the growth of export-oriented employment , mainly due to increased TNC activity in export processing ( often referred to as ‘ production sharing ’ in the business press ) continued to be rapid . |
| 7 | The proportions differed only slightly in the 1987 general election . |
| 8 | It widened still further in the 1980s as sales of the Mirror fell . |
| 9 | The same data also show that London and the conurbations fared more badly between the mid-'60s and early '70s than either earlier or later and that , as Fothergill et al. |
| 10 | Problems flared up again in the 430s , when the Bacaudae gained a leader called Tibatto . |
| 11 | Japanese economic competition was feared , although the anxiety was based more on memories of competition in the 1930s than the new competition that developed so vigorously in the 1960s . |
| 12 | Agnes began to cry , quietly at first , then it mounted into sobs , then almost into hysteria and in it she gabbled out incoherently to the three gaping sisters what had transpired from the time she had taken the linen across to the house . |
| 13 | The trend towards consolidation slowed down somewhat in the 1970s . |
| 14 | He never remarried , never even looked at another woman , and the fight started up again between the two men . |
| 15 | And we lost out too in the 70s when Clarksons went out of business . |
| 16 | THE pub and brewery industry , which employs thousands of people in East Anglia , hit out yesterday at the five per cent duty increase on most alcoholic drinks . |
| 17 | Eurocurrency markets began to develop in the 1950s and grew most spectacularly in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 18 | Glasgow grew ever outwards in the thirties , swallowing up the countryside in huge bites as poured-concrete bungalows sprouted out of the fields of Newlands , Merrylee , Cathcart , and all points south . |
| 19 | The crowd went home quietly via the 300 pubs that were to be found in the East End of Glasgow in the good old days . |
| 20 | In the end , the Census Bureau expects to find that the total population is about 250m , is getting older , is still moving from the north-east and midwest to the south and west , and that metropolitan areas grew more rapidly in the 1980s than in the 1970s . |
| 21 | That ‘ political event of the decade ’ looked good on television , especially when the fireworks finale went off just as John Cole , the BBC 's political editor , went out live on the Nine O'Clock News , but it was a strangely soulless event to the 10,000 participants . |
| 22 | The Kingman model of language was greeted with anger by some teachers who looked back nostalgically to the 1960s , but it paved the way for a more judicious approach to the teaching of English . |
| 23 | In fact there were only four , but that looked quite enough for the two dare-devils who 'd volunteered to take part . |
| 24 | If he went round by either the footbridge or the traffic bridge it would take him longer since the wherry lay about half-way between the two . |
| 25 | Trade unions , in fact , did rather well during the 1930s . |
| 26 | They did so gradually during the 1960s — raising the share of cash flow taken by net interest payments from 5% in 1960 to 15% in 1970 — but then cut back . |
| 27 | Mr Godfrey , a cleaning contractor and former fireman spoke only twice during the nine minute hearing . |
| 28 | He spoke only once during the eight minute hearing , to say he understood the proceedings . |
| 29 | These services will be flown by 450 former Dan-Air flight and cabin crew , the only jobs saved so far from the 2,000 permanent Dan-Air staff . |
| 30 | Only the United Kingdom economy performed as badly during the seventies and it has always been near the bottom of the league . |