Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] in [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever Sauniere had stumbled across in the 1880s , the French author , Gerard de Sede , wrote about it nearly eighty years later . |
| 2 | World food output had grown steadily in the fifties and sixties ( except in 1965 and 1967 , after Indian droughts ) . |
| 3 | There was no representation for either of the two dominant political groups in the Hong Kong Legislative Council ( Legco ) — the liberal United Democrats of Hong Kong and the conservative Co-operative Resource Centre — whereas the pro-Chinese New Hong Kong Alliance and Liberal Democratic Federation , both of which had performed badly in the 1991 Legco elections , enjoyed significant representation . |
| 4 | Vanguard had performed well in the 1974 elections but , as Sarah Nelson notes , ‘ The VUP 's future was bound to be in doubt once it shed its two distinctive Vanguard features : militant opposition to British domination and alliance with workers and paramilitants . ’ |
| 5 | Two A-320s had crashed previously in the four years since the aircraft went into operation . |
| 6 | Making fathers pay the poll tax for their under-age children , he said , hindered the growth of population , which had advanced less in the twenty years since the mid-1830s than it had in the twenty years before that . |
| 7 | As they walked through the lamplight of the Ropewalk , Maxim noticed a small incised plaque to Lord Macaulay , who had lived there in the 1840s . |
| 8 | Rural living standards in most areas had improved significantly in the 1980s , but last year for the first time they fell back . |