Example sentences of "broke [adv prt] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marriage broke down in 1934 , but the couple were never divorced . |
| 2 | When this second marriage broke down in 1963 , Simenon was already having an affair with another maid , Teresa Sburelin , with whom he lived for the rest of his life . |
| 3 | Various groups broadly sympathetic to the LTTE , which had formed the EDF alliance [ see parties above ] and won 13 parliamentary seats in the 1990 elections , boycotted parliament after a ceasefire between the government and the LTTE broke down in mid-1990 . |
| 4 | After their system of export quotas broke down in 1989 , world coffee prices almost halved . |
| 5 | In the United Kingdom the Wilson government 's incomes policy broke down in 1969–70 in a ‘ winter of discontent ’ . |
| 6 | When the Cambodian peace talks in Paris broke down in 1988 , it was Mr Solarz , along with the Australian foreign minister , Gareth Evans , who pushed successfully for an expanded UN role in the transitional peace settlement . |
| 7 | The federation broke up in 1964 and David said : ‘ Zambia decided to continue a service of its own and the finger of fate pointed at me . |
| 8 | Felt broke up in 1989 , not because of the usual tired catalogue of ‘ musical differences ’ or drug problems , but because it was written in the stars that they would break up . |
| 9 | He had married a Glasgow girl , probably in 1934 , and the marriage broke up in 1939 . |
| 10 | The original Inklings club had been started by an undergraduate at University College , and broke up in 1933 . |
| 11 | Her marriage broke up in 1985 , leaving her to bring up seven children alone and she worked with local women 's theatre group , Charabanc , on a freelance basis . |
| 12 | They were already planning the Serbian revolt , which broke out in 1804 . |
| 13 | Three Polish prisoners were killed when riots broke out in five jails after parliament excluded habitual offenders from an amnesty . |
| 14 | The war between Russia and Turkey broke out in 1787 . |
| 15 | When war broke out in 1939 , the combination of a depressed agriculture at home and a convenient empire abroad had ensured that around 70 per cent of the nation 's food was imported from overseas . |
| 16 | It was the year before war broke out in 1939 and a small sum was paid for a quarter 's lessons , thirteen in all , I think , but I did miss one or two . |
| 17 | Waugh had seen the opportunities of the conte almost twenty years earlier than Orwell ; but he had exhausted his interest before war broke out in 1939 , so that Brideshead and the Sword of Honour trilogy are firmly planted in a revived realistic tradition . |
| 18 | Then war broke out in 1939 and made a difference , as it always does . |
| 19 | WHEN WAR broke out in 1939 , the UK Government Ministry of War Transport and the Admiralty quickly assumed control of shipping . |
| 20 | When the Palestinian revolt broke out in 1936 , Abdallah secretly urged Britain to exile Palestinian leaders , and offered to work with the Jewish Agency to sabotage intervention by other Arab states . |
| 21 | When the crisis broke out in 1294 considerable arrears had accumulated on all these clerical levies : from the lay subsidies of 1275 and 1290 on their temporalities ; from the direct clerical subsidies of 1279–80 and 1290 ; and from papal tenths granted both in 1274 and especially in 1291 . |
| 22 | At this point the first disturbance broke out in one of the galleries , with groups of men and women starting to chant " Fascism means murder : Down with Mosley " . |
| 23 | Fighting broke out in one of the markets , two people were stabbed and a third sprained his ankle when a stall of onions collapsed . |
| 24 | ‘ We now have this ludicrous situation where if a fire broke out in one end of a particular street in Prestatyn , Rhyl fire engines will go to it and if it breaks out in the other end of the street Prestatyn will go to it , ’ added Coun Edwards . |
| 25 | Garages fire : A caravan and car were badly damaged when fire broke out in two garages on allotments at Sherburn village , Durham , yesterday . |
| 26 | I served my time in both India , Palestine , Gibraltar , Egypt and these sort of places abroad and when I , I nine months of my colour service to finish , which were a twelve year service , when war broke out in nineteen thirty nine . |
| 27 | Since he did not commit himself unreservedly to any party he earned a reputation for political inconsistency , and had to confront the hazards of non-alignment when war broke out in 1642 . |
| 28 | That sentiment , expressed early in the second world war by a journalist called Henry McLemore , epitomised the attitude of many Americans when war broke out in 1941 . |
| 29 | The second Serbian rising broke out in 1815 in the Valjevo district , and soon spread throughout the Šumadija . |
| 30 | War between Venice and Turkey broke out in 1571 , following the participation of Venetian ships in the Christian fleet which defeated the Turks at Lepanto , but it resulted in a stalemate in which neither side gained territory . |