Example sentences of "of [art] [num] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were three salient and interconnected issues for the CNAA and its institutions at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 2 | He was Treasury Solicitor — the head of the government legal service — from 1971 to 1975 , and in his career in the Treasury Solicitor 's Office he was involved in the setting up of the intricate Prices and Incomes Acts of the 1960s and the formation of the new departments of Environment and Trade and Industry . |
| 3 | The six steam locomotives helping to run the train services between Swanage and Harman 's Cross during the special weekend cover over half a century of British steam locomotive development — from Victorian times during the time of Gladstone and Disraeli through to the ‘ new dawn ’ of the 1960s and the era of the present Queen and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan . |
| 4 | Within the EEC de Gaulle 's efforts led to the first summit meetings of the Six since the Community began , in Paris in February and in Bonn in July . |
| 5 | The first was the division of Western Europe after 1957 into the European Economic Community of the Six and the rest . |
| 6 | Certainly if Twiggy had given up her day job as a Saturday girl at Vincent 's of Queensway , she might never have become the face of the sixties and the household name she is today . |
| 7 | Because of inflation , real food prices in the great majority of Latin American countries were higher at the end of the 1970s than the beginning . |
| 8 | It gained ground as a result of the election results of the 1970s and the development of the adversary politics thesis . |
| 9 | Under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Parker the concept of the commercial railway and the social railway was developed at the end of the 1970s and the start of the 1980s . |
| 10 | These two judges were called the horse and the hen , because it was said , they needed to have the swiftness of the one and the vigilance of the other . |
| 11 | In many such cases , there can not be a clear answer in favour of the one or the other . |
| 12 | The direct debit is the more flexible to use of the two because the amount can be adjusted for VAT or other changes . |
| 13 | Customers simply specify whether they want Token Ring , Ethernet or a combination of the two and the thing arrives in a single cardboard box . |
| 14 | An npn Darlington MJ3001 was tried originally , fed directly from pin 3 of the 555 but the performance was inferior to the present arrangement because of the difficulty of getting sufficient drive . |
| 15 | But the Scots have always had a deep-rooted sense of inferiority about the English : it was born out of the defeat of the '45 and the surrender of 1707 and , as Boswell and others had observed with chagrin and sometimes rage , the condescension and contempt of the English towards the Scots and their impossible tongue . |
| 16 | It was at the end of the Fifties that the joke became popular about one high-powered executive calling another on his car telephone only to be told : ‘ He 's on the other line ’ . |
| 17 | Although the flight of the U2 spy plane and the debacle of the summit the following year were to put everybody back on guard once more , there were some moments at the end of the Fifties when the fog of ideology cleared enough for realism to creep in . |
| 18 | The first practical measures of educational extension were instituted during the 1850s and 1860s when London degrees were opened to all who could pass an " external " examination , but it was only towards the end of the 1860s that an emphasis on English language , literature , and history became an important feature of the process of extension . |
| 19 | Many reasons have been offered , including the threat of European fascism , the events at Olympia , the introduction of the Public Order Act in 1936 , military uniforms , the stability of the political system , the economic recovery of the 1930s and the occurrence of the Second World War . |
| 20 | After the depression of the 1890s and the dilapidation of many of the lines , the companies were able to make a remarkable resurgence in the early decades of the twentieth century before their terminal decline . |
| 21 | The movement could never be separated from political questions whatever its leaders wanted , for the question of non-conforming raised the question of establishment , itself a political question dating to the anti-church rate campaigns of the 1830s and the creation of the British Anti-State Church Society by Edward Miall in 1844 . |
| 22 | The opening phase of the war , however , produced domestic difficulties and grievances not dissimilar to those experienced by Edward 's father and grandfather ; and it was only with the military successes and material gains of the 1340s that a change in attitude to war amongst both the nobility and the commons became apparent . |
| 23 | It was a symptom or symbol of the 1980s and a lesson for the 1990s of collusion between Government and irresponsible elements who have done much to give the tobacco industry a bad name . |
| 24 | Historians are certain to acknowledge that she dominated the political landscape of the 1980s and a number of her policies will leave a mark in post-Thatcher Britain . |
| 25 | BR 's fares have been raised by 1.5 per cent above inflation during much of the 1980s and the Government 's proposals imply increases to four points over inflation in the 1990s . |
| 26 | It was not surprising that the amount spent on exploration sank from $760 million in the still relatively fat year of 1979 to between $120 and $150 million at the end of the 1980s and the size of known reserves remained static over a period of at least four years . |
| 27 | The only drawback to both the studies , by Fothergill and Gudgin , and Frost and Spence , is that they predate the economic recession of the 1980s and the reduction in public sector employment pursued by the Conservative government since 1979 . |
| 28 | Rather than eliminate any further jobs on top of the 1,000 that the company has budgeted to shed this year , IBM UK Ltd chief executive Nick Temple is expected to ask senior staffers to bear some of the pain and accept pay reductions — and it could happen : Temple has been telling anyone who will listen that if IBM UK makes a penny profit this year , it will be the most amazing turnround in corporate history . |
| 29 | It may be tempting to relate the figures to the general depression of the 1880s and the revival of the nineties , but the figures are too approximate for fine dating , and while the general economic situation undoubtedly played some part , other factors , to be discussed below , had their importance . |
| 30 | Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s . |