Example sentences of "the [num] and [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political turbulence of the 1970s and 1980s disturbed this cosy conceptualisation of things . |
| 2 | The changing styles in the fifties and sixties affected this great dance hall like all the rest . |
| 3 | But the great popularity of that sort of book in the 1920s and 1930s had another effect besides producing the series of direct variants that led eventually to the crime novel . |
| 4 | The slightest understanding of the history of Europe in the 1920s and 1930s shows that . |
| 5 | It was not too difficult in the 1960s and 1970s to discern such contradictions in the East European countries , in the form of conflicts among various social groups , and in particular a conflict — which appeared openly from time to time in strikes , protests or even insurrections , and was only with difficulty contained and repressed — between those who control and direct the overall development of society and those whose lives and work are thus planned and regulated from above . |
| 6 | Scotland had of course been embroiled in the long-standing hostility between England and France before ; but not until the 1540s and 1550s did these powers actually try to determine the government and internal affairs of the country . |
| 7 | Only during a relatively brief period in the 1950s and 1960s did another form — the high-rise block of flats — become almost as dominant in new local authority construction as the house with the garden , and then generally in the more densely populated urban areas ( Dunleavy , 1981 ) . |