Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relentless pace of internationalisation in the economy has speeded up in the 1980s . |
| 2 | There is some evidence that the rate of increase has slowed down in the 1980s , but there still were more than 160,000 divorces in 1985 . |
| 3 | He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer . |
| 4 | Essentially , there had grown up in the 1930s a system of subsidies which enabled milk to be bought cheaply by local education authorities for distribution ( free or at minimal cost ) to children . |
| 5 | But the old pub had burnt down in the 1960s and been replaced by a more profitable and thrusting enterprise . |
| 6 | Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s . |