Example sentences of "[num] and [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress in 1885 and presided at the 1886 and 1893 sessions . |
| 2 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |
| 3 | Bill joined the BBC as a radio engineer 's assistant in 1932 and went to the fledgling Television service a few years later . |
| 4 | Among dock , river and waterside workers such a movement took place in a number of ports in the 1870s and culminated in the great Liverpool dock strike of 1879 . |
| 5 | He signed for Palace on 8 March 1962 and progressed through the Junior ranks for a couple of seasons . |
| 6 | ELECTRA KICKED off with the folk music of the '50s , went through the late '60s underground of the Doors/Stooges/MC5 , drifted into the Asylum California scene of the '70s and arrived in the '90s of new boss Bob Krasnow whose tenure has seen the addition of soul , in the shape of Pendergrass , Anita Baker and others . |
| 7 | ELECTRA KICKED off with the folk music of the '50s , went through the late '60s underground of the Doors/Stooges/MC5 , drifted into the Asylum California scene of the '70s and arrived in the '90s of new boss Bob Krasnow whose tenure has seen the addition of soul , in the shape of Pendergrass , Anita Baker and others . |
| 8 | However , economic activity began to slow in mid-1990 and stagnated in the fourth quarter . |
| 9 | The Wars of Independence which began in the 1290s and lasted into the late fourteenth century changed that situation radically . |
| 10 | April nineteen ninety one and ended on the thirty first of November . |
| 11 | The first big period of interest in earthen structures in this century began in the 1930s and lasted until the early 1950s . |
| 12 | Outstanding among these are 202 coloured drawings collected by John Talman in Italy between 1709 and 1717 and added to the great collection of architectural and ornament drawings amassed by himself and his father William , the Comptroller of the King 's Works . |
| 13 | Properly speaking , therefore , the new narrative pre-dates the so-called ‘ boom ’ , a term which is sometimes erroneously used as a synonym but which in fact refers to a process which took place in the 1960s and continued into the 1970s , when Spanish-American fiction won increasing recognition outside Latin America itself and achieved unprecedented commercial success . |
| 14 | Robert Key , a teacher by profession , entered Parliament in 1983 and sat on the Select Committee on Education , Science and the Arts . |
| 15 | Despite this glimpse of vintage anti-Semitic paranoia , setting the tone for the new wave of anti Jewish action and propaganda which began in the last months of 1937 and continued throughout the following year , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was scarcely touched upon in Hitler 's speeches throughout the critical year of 1938 . |
| 16 | He toured Britain in 1955 and competed in the British Grand Prix at Aintree but had to retire after 34 laps in his Cooper-Bristol that was just not up to the task of Formula One racing against the likes of Moss and Fangio 's Mercedes . |
| 17 | He joined the Liberal Party in 1968 and served on the Young Liberals ' executive committee . |
| 18 | Mr Brandreth was President of the Oxford Union in 1968 and stayed on the following year , a high profile position which may explain why Mr Clinton remembers him . |