Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , he laughed so loud and so often that One Over The Eight practically came to a halt . |
| 2 | The foundation of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea in 1902 also acted as a stimulus . |
| 3 | The death of Friedel in 1899 probably resulted in a pause in an international activity until the creation of the forerunner of IUPAC , the International Union of Chemical Societies , in 1911 . |
| 4 | It seems hard to believe that we flower children of the 1960s and 1970s never doubted for a second that we would eventually find fulfilling jobs . |
| 5 | Indeed , some of the ideas developed by Baudrillard in the early 1970s recently resurfaced in a critique of the culture of late capitalism by Jameson ( 1984 ; see also Foster ed. 1983 ) . |
| 6 | The spectacular rise to power throughout the 1920s suddenly came to a halt , betrayed by the leaders who had inspired it . |
| 7 | But altogether , productivity has almost certainly been lower in services than in manufacturing by a significant margin and this involves a double irony : a major part of the improvement of productivity in manufacturing from the 1960s onwards resulted from a shake-out of labour much of which , in effect , found its way into the lower productivity services . |