Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet if Mosley came to see Lloyd George as a fellow economic radical , objections to the management of Irish policy divided them in the early 1920s . |
| 2 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 3 | During the campaign itself Healey was noticed by only about 12 per cent on average but that concealed some sharp variations : 28 per cent noticed him in the last two days of the campaign , immediately after a spectacular on-screen row with TV-am presenter Ann Diamond . |
| 4 | How much had the Mani changed since Leigh Fermor , that most distinguished of scholar gypsies , explored it in the late 1950s ? |
| 5 | That is the same price Leeds council paid them in the mid 1980 's and about £2.5m less than the local authority are looking for now . |
| 6 | Those who knew him in the early 1970s in Florida remember a young man who beat balls at night after working a day job . |
| 7 | You saw him in the early thirties ? |
| 8 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 9 | It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’ |
| 10 | He bought it in the Swinging Sixties and had never worn it . |
| 11 | As has been noted , services are far less easy prey to import penetration ; and the broad financial sector fared well out of a sharp rise in inflation and the high interest rates which accompanied it in the early 1970s . |
| 12 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |