Example sentences of "the [num] [conj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numbers will increase gradually from the mid-1990s but by the turn of the century they will still be below current levels . |
| 2 | The Doctor had explained that in 1969 a man had walked on the moon ; that unmanned space flights to other stars had been sent out in the 1970s and towards the end of the twentieth century manned space flights had visited other planets in the solar system . |
| 3 | Plus ça change : in the 1990s these words ( apart from their dated gender references ) remain as relevant and as enlightening as in the 1970s and at the beginning of the century : the problem of poverty is the condition of the normal man [ and woman ] in normal circumstances , neither better nor worse off than his [ or her ] neighbours , not of those whose failings qualify them to be the text for the moralist , and who are no more common in the manual working-classes than in other sections of the society . |
| 4 | And how can deposit requirements be administratively impossible if they were used by the Bank of Italy in the 1970s and by the Bank of Spain just last year ? |
| 5 | So a number of theories of perception erm came on to the market as a response to the work of people like in the fifties and towards the end of the fifties we started to get theories of perception which were based on feature detectors . |
| 6 | There seems to have been no clear trend in earnings over the period up to the rapid triumph of machine spinning after 1800 ; in the West of England rates per pound of wool spun were only marginally higher in the 1770s than in the century 's first decade . |
| 7 | As Robert Rothstein has commented , Realism was popular with politicians because it ‘ encapsulated what they took for granted , especially after the failures of the 1930s and during the height of the cold war ’ . |
| 8 | Roosevelt , at the beginning of the 1930s and at the height of World War II , may have briefly approached such a position of pre-eminence , but none of his successors has come even close to such a situation . |
| 9 | You ca n't separate the two because of the nature of the dispute . |
| 10 | The same author goes on to say that there are cases where land reform , or at least the break-up of large latifundia or estates , had actually accelerated environmental decline , as in Bolivia in the 1950s or after the emancipation of serfs in Russia in 1816 . |
| 11 | He gave £50 million , which of course made an immense difference to life at the National Gallery , not only in the 1980s but for the future . |
| 12 | At the same time unusual changes were taking place in the late 1970s and in the 1980s because of the drop in pupil numbers and because an increasing number of interested parties were identifying themselves as appropriate new participants in its management ( Bogdanor 1979 ) . |
| 13 | Further analysis of these topics should contribute both to an understanding of the substantive trends in British electoral politics in the 1980s and to the advancement of general theories of voting behaviour . |