Example sentences of "in the [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drought in the 1970s and again in 1983 brought four-wheel-drive Toyotas emblazoned with aid-agency logos but aid failed to alleviate the chronic poverty faced by the peasants who make up 90 per cent of the population . |
| 2 | In the 1290s and again in the 1330s the pressure of taxation and resistance to the crown 's recruiting methods led to political crises which undermined the king 's ability to wage war successfully . |
| 3 | However , what can we say with confidence about the beliefs of ordinary people , either in the nineteenth or even in the late twentieth century ? |
| 4 | Despite an expansion in access to education in the 1970s and reforms carried out in the 1960s and again in the late 1970s , the fundamental patterns of inequality have remained and have been accentuated by the war . |
| 5 | He answered that question in the negative and likewise in relation to the Inland Revenue . |
| 6 | When Graham Smith contracted cancer , she invited him and his wife on holiday to Necker in the Caribbean and also on a Mediterranean cruise on board the yacht owned by Greek tycoon , John Latsis . |
| 7 | Its west façade was rebuilt in the eighteenth and also in the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | The spontaneity , excitement and vigour which had attended pop music 's greatest flowerings — in the mid-Fifties and again in the mid-Sixties — had , once again , evaporated ; the market-place was now the sole arbiter of style . |
| 9 | It seems that the system of central planning , adopted after the Communist Party took power in 1948 , did bring some economic progress in the 1950s and even into the 1960s . |
| 10 | Our interpretation of the field situation therefore becomes a specific and unusual type of ‘ anthropology at home ’ , for it is not out there in the exotic or even in the backyard . |
| 11 | The global success not only of Japanese enterprise in the 1980s but also of the other NICs of East Asia has been seen by some commentators such as Blunt ( 1989 : 21 ) as a spur to the renaissance of studies of effective leadership in recent times . |
| 12 | Sterling issues expanded dramatically in the 1980s but increasingly in the form of eurosterling bonds and Table 3.8 shows the important share that such bonds now have in the total sterling bond market . |
| 13 | Odo 's biography was written by a monk who had little interest in the miraculous and much in practical virtues . |
| 14 | But these demands had first found expression in a world of thought provided by non-socialist intelligentsia , first in the 1930s and increasingly during the war . |
| 15 | As Hood notes , however , they came into ‘ high fashion in the 1940s and again in the 1960s when the Fulton Committee endorsed the idea of government growth outside Whitehall by ‘ hiving-off ’ units from civil service departments to non-departmental bodies ' ( 1981 , p. 100 ) . |
| 16 | He argued that , because of monopoly power in both the goods and labour markets , wages and prices will tend to be inflexible , at least in the short-run and particularly in the downward direction . |
| 17 | Late in the 1370s and early in the 1380s the world order , already upset by long war , seemed set to suffer yet further disruption . |