Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [adj] [subord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hannah Hauxwell possesses an unusual sensitivity for one who was reared to the truly spartan life of an isolated dale in the thirties and forties when sheer hardship invariably deadened any aesthetic tendencies . |
| 2 | Effectively this happened in two stages — the first in the 1920s and 30s when British colonialism wanted to create an intermediate class in East African countries , and the second after World War II when Britain in common with other Western European countries was faced with a chronic shortage of labour . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his estimate of how much more businesses would have paid in rates during 1990-91 and 1991-92 if uniform business rate had not been in operation . |
| 4 | First came Professor Johan Claassen , the legendary South African lock of the Fifties and Sixties and less than legendary manager in New Zealand in 1981 . |
| 5 | There were around a thousand registered fighters in the 1940s , but the number fell steadily in the 1950s and 1960s as working-class affluence softened inner-city boys brought up to fight out of hunger and the sheer hardness of street life . |
| 6 | The situation was concealed in 1968 and 1969 as short-term capital was attracted to US banks by high interest rates : $12 billion flowed in during those two years , more than covering the long-term capital outflow . |