Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 2 | Several case studies were carried out in the 1970s , of which the Liverpool Inner Area Study ( 1975 ) is of particular interest . |
| 3 | According to the DoE 190 square miles of countryside a year were built on in the 1980s ; the CPRE study , however , puts the figure at 460 square miles . |
| 4 | At the same time the ethical requirements were spelt out in the Ten Commandments and other laws . |
| 5 | It is only fair to put on record , so that the student of war today can trace Trenchard 's early thinking , by recalling that the Harris war aircraft were laid down in the mid-thirties . |
| 6 | More personal equity plans were taken out in the 12 months to April 1992 than in any other year since the PEP scheme was set up in 1987 . |
| 7 | When my parents ' generation were marrying back in the 1920s not everyone had cars and the best man 's responsibility was to organize transport for all the guests . |
| 8 | These decent working-class houses were put up in the 1770s and 1780s , where land was cheap and when building materials were plentiful , wages in the building trades relatively low , and money relatively cheap . |
| 9 | Opponents of the idea that the management of education and training can benefit from the lessons of business and industry found it ironic that the messages which were put out in the two documents criticized weaknesses in the world of employers rather than of educators . |
| 10 | These fields in humans were discovered back in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 11 | The best IBMers were sent out in the seventies on secondments , then seen to come back into promotions . |
| 12 | Her breasts were stranded back in the fifties . |